Month: June 2024

This is the second blog arising from work on IGDC’s Decolonising Research Podcast series. How can researchers decolonise their work? What steps can be taken in terms of partnerships, methods, and impact? And what challenges does decolonisation raise for researchers? Researchers are increasingly encouraged to decolonise their research. This is particularly true in the field … Continue reading Working towards decolonising development research: partnerships, methods, and impact

This is the first blog arising from work on IGDC’s Decolonising Research podcast series. This post discusses the colonial character of established research practices and explains why they should be decolonised. It provides background to the IGDC’s Decolonising Research podcast. In Decolonizing Methodologies, Linda Tuhiwai Smith called research ‘one of the dirtiest words in the … Continue reading Decolonising research: Why should we decolonise development research?

Aasim Sheikh discusses the IGDC PGR students webinar in February 2024 where they discussed decolonial research in a digital age. With an agenda to promote conviviality within research, post-graduate researchers in Global Development at York have organised a seminar series, Breaking Disciplinary Barriers: Towards Interdisciplinary Horizons. Dr Hameed Chughtai, senior lecturer from Lancaster University Management School, was invited … Continue reading Interdisciplinary horizons and decolonial research in a digital age