Youth Engagement for Global Action
August 12 marked the United Nations International Youth Day 2020. The theme for this year was 'Youth Engagement for Global Action'. As the world faces multiple, intersecting, crises of a..
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This week the DSAA launched an exciting new blog on learning and teaching in development studies. This blog is a small effort to contribute to the many other recent and..
I have another beautiful piece of student writing to share with you. As previously discussed on this blog, each year students of my ‘Critical Issues in Global Development’ subject..
2020 has been a challenging year. In Australia we started the new decade with devastating bushfires. The fires had barely burned when the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, and since then there..
This year I had the privilege of delivering the SSEAC 2020 Politics in Action Update on Laos. Sydney Southeast Asia Centre’s annual Politics in Action forum brings political updates..
Below is a short (satirical) poem about development. In Week 1 of my Critical Issues in Global Development subject, one of the set readings is Ross Coggin’s The Development Set. I find creative mediums (poetry, literature,..
This post comes a little late. It has been a busy year and, unfortunately, I have struggled to keep the website updated with all that has been happening. In..
On Friday 21st June the Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars (AMSEAS) hosted its inaugural Mainland Southeast Asia Seminar. The 2019 Seminar theme was ‘China’s Presence in Mainland Southeast Asia’..
Below is a short summary on JCU’s participation in the 2019 RDI Conference. I am so pleased that JCU continues to build its engagement with the Australian Development Studies community…