News – SweDev

Recording and summary: Where do we go from here? Swedish research funding for collaborative research in LMICs after U-forsk

Recording and summary from SweDev and GlobeLife seminar on the consequences of the cuts in research funding for global development on 16 April 2024.

Report: The consequences of development research funding cuts

Report launch: Development research in Sweden today.

A closer look at development aid: understanding the obsession with measurement

In their latest book, Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?, authors Susanna Alexius and Janet Vähämäki explore the complexities of development aid. Leveraging their expertise in organizational research and hands-on experience in the aid sector, they offer valuable insights on the complex dynamics at play.

Recording: Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy? Coping with Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations

Recording from SweDev and SEI’s dialogue series on development research on 6 March 2024.

SweDev’s input to SOU 2023:59: Ny myndighetsstruktur för finansiering av forskning och innovation

Read SweDev’s position on the referral on Forskningsfinansieringsutredningen.

Recording: Post-pandemic transformations and the re-casting of development with Melissa Leach

Recording of SEI and SweDev Dialogue on development research with Melissa Leach.

”Ny strategi för forskning om global utveckling behövs”

SweDev’s steering group has, as part of the Swedish government’s development of a new Research Bill, presented concrete proposals on reforms needed to ensure continued support and excellence of research on equal global development. Their proposal has been presented as an Op-ed in OmVärlden. Read the article below (in Swedish).

Challenging Global Development – Towards Decoloniality and Justice

Newly released open access publication on Development Studies.

Recording: The extractive industries in the developing world

Recording of the dialogue with Tony Addison.