Course lecturers in International Development Studies
The Institute for the Study of International Development and its International Development Studies program seeks course lecturers (MCLIU - unionized) for a total of 6 courses for the Fall 2023 term at McGill University. Course lecturers are required for:
Teaching Assistants in International Development Studies
The Institute for the Study of International Development is looking for graduate teaching assistants for the Fall 2023 term and for various courses in the international development studies program. Applicants must be graduate students in good standing at McGill University. Full details can be found here https://www.mcgill.ca/isid/jobs/teaching-assistants, and applications made through Workday, the university's human resources management system.
Marie-Perle Nkosi, outgoing president of IDSSA and Black Grad valedictorian
ISID congratulates Marie-Perle Nkosi, president for the 2022/2023 year of the International Development Studies Students Association and one of three Black Grad Valedictorians at McGill this year! Read the full details and an interview with Marie-Perle in the McGill Reporter: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/in-conversation-with-marie-perle-nkosi-black-...
New Policy Brief! Climate Adapation in Africa: Locally Led and Nature Based Solutions
Climate change continues to cause damage in Africa. It triggers food insecurity, poverty and displacement. The impacts of climate change are being exacerbated by rapid urbanization, geopolitical tensions, headwinds caused by the invasion of Ukraine and its impacts on agricultural exports and fertilizers.
ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez discuss these issues in ISID's first policy brief of 2023.
Two years after the coup, Myanmar has slid into civil war
Read ISID's Director Erik Kuhonta's recent op/ed on the situation in Myanmar in the Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-two-years-after-the-coup...
McGill Scholars Respond to COP15 Biodiversity Conference
ISID's Timothy Hodges (Professor of Practice) is one of the McGill scholars cited in this article from the Reporter
https://reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-scholars-respond-to-cop15-biodiversity...
2022 McDonald, Currie Lecture - Development Finance in the Private Sector - is now available on YouTube!
The full recording of ISID's 2022 McDonald Currie lecture, "Development Finance in the Private Sector: From Safeguarding Standards to Sustainable Investing" is now available in the Institute's YouTube Channel. Moderated by ISID Professor of Practice Christian Novak, Angel Bohorquez Colombo and Chitralekha Deopersad of FinDev as well as John Graham of the IFC/World Bank discussed the role of development finance in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A high qua
An exploration of bilateral development finance institutions’ business models
ISID Professor of Practice Christian Novak has published a new working paper with the Overseas Development Instite (London).
States and Trends in Adaptation Report 2022: Adaptation at the core of a prosperous Africa in an uncertain and warming world
ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir co-directs, with Dr Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, this report in advance of the COP 27 (Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Change) Conference. The full report can be downloaded from the site of the Global Center on Adaptation.
Course Lecturers in International Development Studies
Date: October 1 2022
The Institute for the Study of International Development and its International Development Studies program seeks course lecturers (MCLIU - unionized) for a total of 6 courses for the Winter 2023 term at McGill University. Course lecturers are required for:
Course Lecturer required: Quantitative Methods for International Development
The Institute for the Study of International Development and its International Development Studies program seeks a course lecturer (MCLIU - unionized) for a one course for the Fall 2022 term at McGill University. This is a supplementary posting, and will remain open for two days. A Course lecturer is required for:
Kai Scott wins the 2022 Albert O Hirschman Prize for the best undergraduate paper in International Development Studies
The Institute for the Study of International Development congratulates Kai Scott, the 2022 winner of the Albert O. Hirschman Prize for the best paper in International Development Studies for “Governance as Argument: Expanding Land Governance through Fluid Networks of Rebellion in Kawthoolei, Myanmar”.
Professor Erik Kuhonta: Why Did Filipinos Vote Overwhelmingly for Ferdinand Marcos, Jr?
Professor Erik Kuhonta, Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development, discusses the recent win of Ferdinand Marcos Jr in this piece published in Open Canada.
ISID Professor of Practice Mark Berlin and the LGBT Purge Monument
ISID congratulates its Professor of Practice Mark Berlin for his role in the elaboration of Ottawa's forthcoming LGBT "Purge" Monument.
Said Professor Berlin:
“For decades from the 1950s to the 1990s members of the canadian armed forces ; the RCMP and the federal public service were discriminated against ; harassed ; fired or dismissed simply as result of their sexual orientation-these individuals became collectively known as purge victims.
Congratulations to Professor Diana Allan, Canada Research Chair for her project, The Anthropology of Living Archives
Professor Diana Allan, Associate Professor in the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of Anthropology, is one of McGill's most recent recipients of a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair for her project, "The Anthropology of Living Archives". Professor Allan, an anthropologist and filmmaker, focuses on the histories of the 1948 displacement of Palestinian refugees to Lebanon.
