Event Archive

A livestream of the 'Putting Aid Data to Work' conference to be held by AidData at the World Bank building, Washington DC.

This presentation, from a member of the international Core Team, describes the journey undertaken, and the overall findings and conclusions of the study. It explains the implications of the findings for this year’s High Level Forum in Busan, which will set the direction for international aid effectiveness going forward.

Professor Cairns will talk on the broad subject of social justice in relation to leprosy and his work, in that context, with the World Health Organisation. Further details to follow. The event will conclude with a reception in the Atrium.

An open talk and discussion with Pastor Paul Ndahhigwa, President of the Pilgrim Centre for Healing and Reconciliation.

UN Day is devoted to highlighting the aims and achievements of the United Nations.

A public lecture by Brian Miller

A three-day International Greening Education Event will be held from 19th to 21st of October, 2011 in the green city of Karlsruhe, Germany. This event will take academia, education, environmental and sustainable development policy makers, senior members of academic institutions, representatives of government and non-governmental organisations and international development agencies,...

DSA Scotland Mini Conference to be held at CSID, University of Aberdeen, on 14 October 2011.

Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability in collaboration with Grampian Association of Storytellers have organised a one day workshop.

Priorities in International Development are constantly changing. Our speakers will give an overview of the current UK and global priorities. They will then ask the audience to try their hands at being national decision makers having to spend aid funds…

1.4 billion people on our planet live in extreme poverty... 1.4 Billion Reasons, is a thought provoking multimedia presentation that is travelling the world, inspiring and empowering audiences in its path. Based on leading research, it clearly communicates the challenges and opportunities around tackling extreme poverty, working as...

Facilitation Training Day A course that will help you gain the tools and techniques to make your facilitation engaging and productive 'Very useful, made me reconsider my approach when dealing with communities' Brian Dunne (Scottish Natural Heritage) 'Extremely helpful to go through the whole process of facilitation' Ruth Campbell...

A Scotland Malawi Partnership event, supported by Global Community Links, looking at the contribution Scotland-Malawi links have made to MDG1 – to end poverty and hunger.

Scottish Business and International Development

EADI's triennal general conferences are the Association's public forum for debate and research. The 13th General Conference will be held in co-operation with the Development Studies Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland (DSA).

The EADI-DSA 2011 joint conference seeks to be one convening space to fundamentally revisit and rethink the development paradigm(s) in all its dimensions in an era of plurality, uncertainty and change.

The conference aims to bring together participants who are taking forward sustainable development, internationalisation and global citizenship within the context of Further/Higher Education.

Presentations and debate from a sustainable international development perspective

Following the huge success of the first Cross College Seminar on Research in Nigeria held on the 12th of April, 2011, a second seminar was organised by the Centre for Sustainable International Development (CSID). The seminar was held on the 5th of August 2011 in the MacRobert Building, University of...

The Symposium allows young leaders the opportunity to understand more about the global humanitarian need, to learn how to organize a humanitarian relief and be challenged in their worldview.

Abstract submission is now open for this major international science conference focusing on solutions to the global sustainability challenge. This is an open call for participants and for abstracts for presentations and posters to be submitted against the session topics described on the conference website under the following outline: ...

BUILD (Building Understanding through International Links for Development), supported by the Scotland Malawi Partnership, would like to warmly invite you to a meeting to explore:

This Edinburgh meeting (one of seven around the UK) is being supported by the Scotland Malawi Partnership, as part of our Diaspora engagement programme. However, all members of the Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Latin America Diaspora community are encouraged to attend the meeting.

Doctors and nurses are warmly invited

Organised jointly by: Dr Jenneth Parker, Research Director Schumacher Institute; Dr Mike Yearworth, Reader, Systems Engineering, University of Bristol

This seminar should be of interest to all those involved in research on/for sustainability and the developing meta-research questions around interdisciplinary research in general. The format will be short presentations followed by discussion with time for networking.

Public Meeting of Scottish Malawi Network.

Public Meeting of Scottish Malawi Network.

The questions which I would like to address in this talk are: What is the reason for such inequality? Why are these technologies not reaching the poorest of the poor, the most disadvantaged communities? Or in other words why are these technologies not being used efficiently to save lives of...

eLearning Africa 2011 will focus on Youth, Skills and Employability. How can Africa unlock the huge potential of its young people? How can ICT for learning and training help?

A major international symposium which will provoke debate on the theme of human population growth and global carrying capacity, often regarded as simply too controversial and difficult to tbe tackled through rational analysis.

Lecture presented in association with the World Development Movement

Seminar on latest research findings in Bangladesh

The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development provides us with an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to learn to “live together” better.

The next meeting of the DSA Scotland Study Group will be hosted by the Department of Economics in the University of Dundee on Friday 20 May 2011.

The SMP, with the Healthy Lifestyle Project and North Lanarkshire Council, invite you to attend this event which includes talks from four visiting Malawians on:

PRISM is a network of postgraduate and early career researchers based in universities across the UK and overseas, who are engaged with the conceptualisation as well as the applied practice of sustainability-related research. The network was initiated by University of Gloucestershire and is supported by the European Commission through the...

Representatives from local NGO's will give short presentations of their work in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Over the coming weeks CSID will be showing a series of films from Sub Saharan Africa. This is in preparation for the 6th Century Course on Sustainable International Development which will commence on 28th September 2011. The showings will take place at 1900 each Wednesday. These events are open to all...

Call for Applications

In January, residents of southern Sudan went to the polls to decide whether or not to secede from Sudan. This was the culmination of decades of violence and a few years of relative peace. The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of secession, and South Sudan will become the newest country...

The graduate students in sustainable development at Columbia University are convening the first Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainable Development (IPWSD); scheduled for May 6th-7th, 2011, at Columbia University in New York City.

Seminar on latest research findings in Nigeria

This Edinburgh symposium will explore ways in which Scotland can contribute to this global battle to respond to the impact of the epidemic of Non communicable diseases and to radically tackle the determinants and drivers of these diseases

Presentations and debate from a sustainable international development perspective

The global theme of WWD 2011 is Water for cities: responding to the of urban water management. This year, our Director, Professor Dr Patricia Wouters, will be taking the lead for our Centre through her High-Level Expert (HLE) role at the InterAction Council (IAC) WWD event "The Global...

New thinking and age old skills on change making for social justice. Come to the World Development Movement’s annual campaigner’s convention. Hear world-renowned political scientist Susan George, learn how to use stories to win campaigns, find out about WDM’s campaigns for justice on hunger, climate and the banking...

This bookable event is for students keen on a career working in the EU

The purpose of the meeting is to form a group of Bangladeshi researchers and staff at UoA and to find out about their field/topic/areas of research.

"Gender equality and women’s empowerment are fundamental to the global mission of the United Nations to achieve equal rights and dignity for all... But equality for women and girls is also an economic and social imperative. Until women and girls are liberated from poverty and injustice, all our goals --...

As part of the University of Aberdeen (UoA) Students’ International Development week (28 February to 4 March 2011), the Centre for Sustainable International Development will be hosting a panel discussion.

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Welcome to the Aberdeen University International Development Week, where all those who want to start a career, or are simply interested in international development can get all the information at hand. There will be all kinds of events taking place throughout the week including movies, MUN sessions, guest lectures...

In this final lecture of the Winter Millennium Development Goals Lecture series we will be discussing Goal 8: developing a global partnership for development. Malcolm Bruce MP is currently the President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and in Parliament is the Chair of the influential International Development Select Committee. Malcolm...

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Chris Church, Chair, UK Low Carbon Communities Network and Malcolm Fergusson Head of Climate Change, The Environment Agency are confimed to speak at Sustainable Development 2011.

"Social justice is based on the values of fairness, equality, respect for diversity, access to social protection, and the application of human rights in all spheres of life, including in the workplace. As we face the consequences of the global financial and economic crisis, which has led to significant increases...

COMING EVENTS ORGANIZED BY CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT AND SHARED PLANET

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In this talk Dr Dower first examines the ethical basis for an individual in one country giving aid to help alleviate poverty in another country. After briefly countering some arguments that we have no duty to give aid, he considers benevolence and several ideas of global justice, including the claim...

Followed by reception and book signing. To attend the reception please RSVP by 8 February 2011 to: geg@univ.ox.ac.uk

In this talk Dr Dower argues that there is nothing valuable in sustainability unless what is (to be) sustained is of value. Much of the contestability of the concept of sustainability resides in different views about what is of value, both about what is worth pursuing and having and about...

Climate Change Project and Shared Planet

The workshop is for researchers in a range of disciplines, addressing issues of poverty alleviation, improvement of ecosystems services and implementation of biogas digesters in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides a unique opportunity to bring together a network of people with the necessary expertise to get small-scale biogas digesters working in...

This workshop will explore how staff at the University of Aberdeen can enhance the societal and economic impact of their research. Staff will also have an opportunity to feed into the development of a series of training workshops for 2011 designed to enhance our impact by learning how to more...

Workshop and policy panel

South-South cooperation, as an important element of international cooperation for development, offers viable opportunities for developing countries and countries with economies in transition in their individual and collective pursuit of sustained economic growth and sustainable development.

Montly meeting

Victims of discrimination are not alone. The United Nations is standing with them, committed to defending the rights of all, and particularly the most vulnerable. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

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A week organised by the FP7 EuroAfrica-ICT (www.euroafrica-ict.org) and the ei-Africa (www.ei-africa.eu) EU-funded projects with the support of the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland (www.vtt.fi).

This year, the 5th edition of the European Development Days (EDD) will take place in Brussels on 6 and 7 December. Organised by the European Commission and the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, EDD is the leading European forum where the questions and issues about international...

“Volunteerism is a source of community strength, resilience, solidarity and social cohesion. It can bring positive social change by fostering respect for diversity, equality and the participation of all. It is among society’s most vital assets.” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

The Day aims to promote a better understanding of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of the political, social, economic and cultural life of their communities.

Understanding HIV and AIDS from a human rights perspective can be difficult. Human rights are often misunderstood - and can sometimes be seen as abstract ideals with not much practical relevance for real people.

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The conference, aimed at high level business and education stakeholders, will be an opportunity to hear some of the world’s leading closed loop economy thinkers and activists (see below). Ten guest lectures around one key perspective on the transition to a sustainable economy. The focus will be on skills, jobs...

Christian Aid Millennium Development Goals Autumn Lecture Series

Prof Simon will address the challenges of undertaking policy, advocacy and consultancy on urban climate change in developing countries in terms of RAE/REFability and impact

The conference focus for 2010 is ‘Linking Disasters and Development: the next 10 years’. This involves exploring and highlighting aspects of resilience, response, investigation and recovery strategies for dealing with environmental, economic and socially related disasters, nationally and internationally. The conference programme is deliberately broad and designed to bring together the wide...

Why Global Inequality Matters

The specific objectives of the symposium are to: • share state-of-the art research on universal health coverage; • develop a global agenda of priority research on accelerating progress towards universal health coverage; • facilitate greater research collaboration and learning communities across disciplines, sectors, initiatives and countries; • strengthen the scientific rigor of the field...

From Pledges to Action is a high-level political event to consolidate commitments and accelerate progress towards MDGs 4 and 5. Over three days in November, approximately 700 health and development ministers, senior government and UN officials, donors, health care professionals, civil society representatives and academics from around the world will...

This FREE workshop is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers who are either working in interdisciplinary research or who currently work in a single discipline but intend to move into interdisciplinary work in the future.

NIDOS celbrates 10 years of action on global poverty by Scottish organisations and agencies

Four plenary speakers will address a range of topics: Bina Agarwal on Collectivities, Cooperation and Values; Stephen Chan on Morality and Amorality; Renato Maluf on the current main challenges to food and nutrition sovereignty, security and the right to food; Chris Whitty on the value of research for development and...

Dr Homans is currently working with the UN on a report to document progress since the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1308. This resolution was the first to address an issue of human development by the Security Council due to the perceived threat of the HIV...

Christian Aid Millennium Development Goals Autumn Lecture Series

To discuss 6th Century Course and other CSID activities

This event was cancelled

Date changed to 3rd November

Christian Aid Millennium Development Goals Autumn Lecture Series

Contributions of wild plant foods to food security and health among rural people of Buhera District in Zimbabwe

Christian Aid Millennium Development Goals Autumn Lecture Series

Professors Lani Florian and Martyn Rouse will speak on progress made in achieving education for all.

Professors Lani Florian and Martyn Rouse will speak on progress made in achieving education for all.

Monthly Associates meeting First hour - follow up from launch Second hour - 6th Century course

The overall aim of the workshop is to broaden awareness of the gender dimensions in research design and operations, and to increase capacity to incorporate gender dimensions and issues into all aspects of the research process. By invitation only.

Formal launch of the Centre for Sustainable International Development.

First CSID Advisory Boad meeting

Professor Lwakabamba is Rector of the National University of Rwanda and member of the Advisory Board for the Centre of Sustainable International Development