International Development

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realising global rightsRealising Rights to Global Health

This study led by Dr. Maya Unnithan, focused on the Indian state of Rajasthan and tracked the transmission of rights ideas and practices trans-nationally and through to local recipients.

More details are available on the Realising Rights to Global Health website

Maya was also recently interviewed for a wellcome trust film on public engagement and the contribution of social sciences and humanities.

A copy of the report on this project is available:
Thinking through Rights-based Development in Health: Institutional approaches to social inequality and gender violence in reproductive, maternal and sexual health (All India consultation and dissemination workshop report, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, April 9th-10th 2010).

An overview of the final conference report is available:

Global Flows, Human Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Ethnographies of Institutional Change in the Global South (International conference, University of Sussex, July 4-5, 2011).

Tackling TB from Wellcome Trust International Eng on Vimeo.

MA in Social Development - a student's perspective

University of Sussex postgraduate taught student Frank Karioris talks about his MA in Social Development

In Good CompanyInside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers

Recent books by faculty

Recently published books by International Development faculty

 Tools of the Trade 1

Examples of undergraduate work

Tools of the Trade take away paper

 

MA in Environment, Development and Policy - Career prospects

Past students share what they are all doing

Second year Development student presents paper

Our students use what they learn here at Sussex to take part in wider academic debates. For example, Andy Chapman, a second year International Development with French student, presented a paper at the University of East London Development Conference in November 2012:

Why is further research necessary to properly understand the potential negative impacts that female - centric development work may have on men? [PDF 324.30KB]