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TCD/UCD Development Practice Seminar Series

Africa Day Celebration

Trinity Development Research Week

Additional Seminars

Millennium Development Goals Lecture Series

 

TCD/UCD Development Research Seminar Series

TCD/UCD Development Research Seminar Series 2012

  1. UCD Friday 27th January: Decolonization and the Fate of Social Democracy. View the presentation delivered by Paul D. Kenny, Dept. of Political Science, Yale University
  2. UCD Friday 10th February: Climate Change, Development and Health in Eastern Africa. View the presentation delivered by David Taylor, Professor of Geography, TCD Chair, Trinity International Development Initiative and Scientific Coordinator EU FP7 HEALTHY FUTURES
  3. UCD Friday 24th February: Should there be an Aid Programme in the Current Climate? Presentation delivered by Brendan Rogers, Director General of Irish Aid (presentation unavailable)
  4. TCD Friday 9th March: Protecting Human Rights Defenders. Presentation delivered by Mary Lawlor, Executive Director, Frontline. (no powerpoint presentation delivered)
  5. TCD Friday 23rd March: The Political Economy of Green Growth. View the presentation delivered by Finn Tarp, Professor of Economics and Director, UNU-WIDER, Finland
  6. TCD Friday 26th October: The Strength of Weak States? Non-State Security and Hybrid Governance in Africa. View this presentation delivered by Dr. Kate Meagher, Department of International Development, The London School of Economics and Political Science
  7. TCD Friday 23rd November: Small Business Enterprise Development in Southern Africa. View this presentation delivered by Aisling O'Broin , Programme Manager, Gorta.

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TCD/UCD Development Research Seminar Series 2011

  1. TCD Friday 21st January: Development and the Rule of Law. View the presentation delivered by Michael Irvine, Solicitor and Rachel Power, Coordinator and Solicitor working on Pamodzi.
  2. UCD Monday 24th January: Delivering Aid: A View from the Field. Presentation delivered by Dr Patrick Fay, Ambassador at the Embassy of Ireland, Abuja, Nigeria. (no powerpoint presentation delivered)
  3. UCD Friday 11th February: International involvement in elections in post-conflict countries. Presentation delivered by Richard Barrett, legal analyst, EU election missions (no powerpoint presentation delivered)
  4. UCD Friday 18th February: Traditional versus Modern Healthcare Delivery in Marginal Communities Presentation delivered by Dr Joseph Assan, Lecturer in Development Practice
  5. Friday 25th March: New Vaccines for Global Health. View the presentation delivered by Prof. Adrian Hill, Professor of Human Genetics and Director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University
  6. UCD Friday 8th April: Improving the Quality of Aid to Achieve Development Results –Implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness Speaker Liz Higgins, Principal Development Specialist, Director of Policy, Planning and Effectiveness Unit, Irish Aid (no powerpoint presentation delivered)
  7. UCD Friday 30th September: The New Scramble for African Resources. Presentation delivered by Dr. Padraig Carmody, Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin (no powerpoint presentation delivered)
  8. UCD Friday 14th October: Global Hunger. View the presentation delivered by Connell Foley, Director of Strategy, Advocacy and Learning, Concern Worldwide
  9. TCD Friday 28th October: Breakfast Meeting with Denis O'Brien. Presentation delivered by Denis O’Brien, Chairman, Digicel Group (no powerpoint presentation delivered)
  10. TCD Friday 11th November: The Business of Aid. View the presentation delivered by Dr. Derek Fee, Former Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Zambia.
  11. TCD Friday 25th November: Climate Jusitce and Food Security. Presentation delivered by Dr. Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, Chancellor, University of Dublin. (no powerpoint presentation delivered).

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TCD/UCD Development Practice Seminar Series 2010

  1. UCD Friday 22nd January: Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo. View the presentation delivered by speaker Pierrot Ngadi, a Human Rights Activist and Chairperson of Congolese Anti-Poverty Network (CAPN) (PDF 43KB)
  2. TCD Friday 5th February: A Right to Food Approach to Development: Experiences from FAO and Gorta. View the presentation delivered by speaker Isabella Rae, Senior Programmes Manager with GORTA - The Freedom from Hunger Council of Ireland (PDF 588KB)
  3. UCD Friday 19th February: From Biafra to Vietnam: Towards a history of Irish foreign aid. View the presentation delivered by speaker Kevin O'Sullivan, IRCHSS Post Doctoral Fellow, School of History & Archives, UCD (PDF 513KB)
  4. TCD Friday 26th February: Tuberculosis in Humans and Cattle in Ethiopia: Implications for Public Health. View the presentation delivered by speaker Stephen Gordon, Associate Professor and Conway Fellow, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, UCD (PDF 223MB)
  5. TCD Friday 9th April: Development Effectiveness: Irish NGOs Working Together in Diversity View the presentation delivered by speaker Eamonn Casey, Policy Officer, Dochas (PDF 241KB)
  6. TCD Friday 7th May: Development Challenges of Child Labour in Agriculture. View the presentation delivered by speaker Una Murray, Lecturer at UCC and International Development Consultant (PDF 285MB)
  7. TCD Friday 1st October: The Politics of Climate Justice, Debt and Development. View the presentation delivered by Patrick Bond, Director, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa (PDF 4.18MB)
  8. TCD Friday 26th November: What is Development Studies for? Presentation delivered by Prof. Henry Bernstein, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies in the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and Adjunct Professor in the College of Humanities and Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing UCD (no powerpoint presentation delivered)
  9. UCD Friday 15th October: Making Trade Work for the Poor. View the presentation delivered by Conall O'Caoimh, Director, Value Added In Africa (PDF 4.67MB)
  10. UCD Friday 29th October: Working in a Fragile State Environment - the Case of the Solomon Islands. Presentation delivered by Bruce Davis Australian ambassador to Ireland, former Director-General of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). (presentation not available)
  11. UCD Friday 12th November: Food Security and Election Outcomes in Malawi Speaker. View the presentation delivered by Prof. Patrick Paul Walsh, Professor of International Development Studies, SPIRe and Geary Institute, UCD and Peter Heaney, Researcher, Geary Institute, UCD (PDF 2.9KB)

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TCD/UCD Development Practice Seminar Series 2009

  1. UCD 9th October: NGO regulation - the impact of the Irish Charities Act 2009 for international NGOs. View the presentation delivered by Dr. Oonagh Breen, Lecturer at the UCD School of Law and visiting research fellow at Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations (PDF 283KB)
  2. TCD 23rd October: Aid as One Element of the Financing for Development Jigsaw. View the presentation delivered by Tara Bedi, Trocaire Policy and Research Coordinator and Joanne McGarry, Trocaire Aid Policy Officer (PDF 346KB)
  3. UCD Friday 6th November : Development Studies as a Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Advocacy, Teaching and Research: A personal perspective. View the presentation delivered by Dr. Edward Lahiff, Doctoral Programme Officer for the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI), Trinity College Dublin (PPT 723KB)
  4. TCD Friday 20th November: Countdown to Copenhagen; Climate Change Policy and Advocacy. View the presentation delivered by Colin Roche, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator Oxfam Ireland (PDF 104MB)
  5. UCD Friday 27th November: Elephants, Flying Penguins and Superpipes; Some Reflections on 'Education Best Practice' and ICT4Dev. View the presentation delivered by Dr Conor Galvin, Lecturer and Researcher at the UCD School of Education (PDF 8.57MB)
  6. UCD Friday 4th December: An Overview of the Aid-for-Trade Agenda. Presentation delivered by William Hynes, Policy Analyst, Poverty Reduction and Growth, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD (unavailable)
  7. TCD Friday 11th December: Reinterpreting the Citizen Consumer: The Alternative Consumer Movement and the Right to Health and Development in Malaysia. View the presentation delivered by Dr. Su-ming Khoo, lecturer with the School of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway (PDF 101.17KB)

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Africa Day Celebrations

Africa Day: 23rd May 2012

Panel Discussion: Scaling Up Agriculture: Sharing challenges and experiences of modernising agriculture in Ireland and Africa.

  1. View the presentation delivered by Prof. Patrick Paul Walsh, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin.
  2. View the presentation delivered by Dr. Philip Damas, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania.
  3. View the presentation delivered by Mr. Leonard Nawiri, Head of Audit and Assessment, Partner Africa, Kenya.
  4. View the presentation delivered by Dr. Carol Newman, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin.
  5. View the presentation delivered by Chair Prof. David Taylor, Department of Geography and Chair of TIDI, TCD.

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Africa Day: 25th May 2011

Panel on Role of Agriculture in African Development:

  1. View the presentation delivered by speaker Dr. Marcela Villarreal, Director Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, Food and Agriculture Organisation
  2. View the presentation delivered by speaker Kalongo Chitengi, Zambia Country Director, Self Help Africa;

Panel on Role of Enterprise in African Development:

  1. View the presentation delivered by speaker Prof. Margaret Kigozi, Executive Director, Uganda Investment Authority;
  2. View the presentation delivered by speaker Dr. Eoin Gahan, Head of Trade, Environment and Survey Analysis, Forfás
  3. View the presentation delivered by speaker Prof. Keith Palmer, Executive Chairman, AgDevCo

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Africa Day: 25th May 2010

View the presentation delivered by speaker Dr. Ousmane Badiane, Director for Africa, International Food Policy Research Institute (PPT 2.15MB)

Africa Day: 25th May 2009

View the presentation delivered by speaker Dr. Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist of the African Development Bank (PPT 3.59MB)

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Trinity Development Research Week

Trinity Development Research Week 2012

Wednesday 7th November: North-South Experiences of Doctoral Training for Development in Africa: The Impact of Partnership.

Thursday 8th November: Beyond the MDGs: The Future of Africa and Ireland’s Role

Trinity Development Research Week 2011

Monday 7th November:

How Can a University Change the World? Presenting TCD Research for Development

  1. “TIDI – Opportunities for Engagement”. View the presentation delivered by David Taylor, TIDI Chair, School of Natural Sciences
  2. “The Micro-foundations of Development: an Exploration of Access to Resources and the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor in Vietnam”. View the presentation delivered by Carol Newman, Department of Economics/IIIS
  3. “Sustainable Groundwater Development”. View the presentation delivered by Bruce Misstear, School of Engineering
  4. “Developing Cardiac Rehabilitation in Vietnam”. View the presentation delivered by Juliette Hussey, Department of Physiotherapy
  5. “EquitAble and the Equiframe Manual”. View the presentation delivered by Joanne McVeigh, Centre for Global Health

 

Tuesday 8th November

Lunchtime Session: How to Fund Development Research
View the presentation delivered by David Fitzpatrick, Research Office, Trinity College Dublin.

 

Financing for Development: Tobin Taxes, National Tax Systems and International Tax Transparency

  1. View the presentation delivered by Micheál Collins, Senior Research Officer at the Economic Research Unit.
  2. View the presentation delivered by Sorley McCaughey, Policy and Advocacy Officer, Christian Aid Ireland.

 

Wednesday 9th November

Lunchtime Session: Band-Aid Pedagogy, Celebrity Humanitarianism and Cosmopolitan Provincialism: Dominant Representations of International Development and their Impact on Development Activism

  1. View the presentation delivered by Audrey Bryan, St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra.
  2. Learning to Read the World Report by Audrey Bryan, St. Patrick's College Drumcondra.

Evidence Based Aid: Helping Decision Makers Before and After Natural Disasters

  1. View the presentation delivered by Ciara O’Brien, Director, Emergency and Recovery Section, Irish Aid
  2. View the presentation delivered by Bonnix Kayabu, Evidence Aid
  3. View the presentation delivered by Austin Kennan, Concern
  4. View the presentation by Pat Gibbons, University College Dublin

 

Thursday 10th November

Climate Change Challenges

Panel 1: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

  1. View the presentation delivered by Camilla Toulmin, International Institute for Environment and Development

Panel 2: Climate Change and Health with speakers

  1. View the presentation delivered by Niall Roche, Irish Forum for Global Health
  2. View the presentation delivered by Elizabeth Cullen, Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association
  3. View the presentation delivered by David Taylor, School of Natural Sciences, TCD.

 

Democracy, Peace and Development in Africa

  1. “African Basis of the Idea of Democracy and Development”. View the presentation delivered by David Nyaluke, Dublin City University
  2. “Peace in The Great Lakes Region: Case of Democratic Republic of Congo”. View the presentation delivered by Arnold Kashembe, University College Limerick
  3. “Peace in the Great Lakes States: The case of Zanzibar in Tanzania”. View the presentation delivered by Lupa Ramadhani, University College Dublin
  4. “Peace and Conflict in Western Africa: The case of Sierra Leone and Liberia”. View the presentation delivered by Walt Kilroy, Dublin City University

 

Friday 11th November

Development Research: From Theory to Practice

  1. View the presentation delivered by Ciara Cummins, MSc in Environment and Development, TCD
  2. View the presentation delivered by Claire Hawkins, Masters in Development Practice, TCD
  3. View the presentation delivered by Nuha Ibrahim and Karen Hand, International Doctorate in Global Health (INDIGO), TCD

 

The Business of Aid

View the presentation delivered by Derek Fee, Former Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Zambia.

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Trinity Development Research Week 2010

Tuesday 9th November 2010:  

Research for Change! How research is being used to address global development challenges

  1. The Value of Partnerships and Collaboration: Everyone can Make a Contribution. View the presentation delivered by Arleen Folan, Project Manager, Water is Life, Dundalk Institute of Technology
  2. A Dynamic Assessment of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: A Case Study of Water Management in Makondo, Uganda. View the presentation delivered by Mavuto D. Tembo, Dundalk Institute of Technology
  3. Distributed Micro Generation. View the presentation delivered by Wayne O'Connell, Trinity College Dublin

Wednesday 10th November 2010:  

Research Capacity Building for Development: Resources for Higher Education Institute

View the presentation delivered by Michael Healy and Mary Goretti Nakabugo, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.

Thursday 11th November 2010:

Can Research Change the World? The importance of research in addressing global development challenges 

  1. View the presentation delivered by Tom Arnold, CEO Concern Worldwide
  2. View the presentation delivered by David Taylor, Professor of Geography, Trinity College Dublin
  3. View the presentation delivered by Dr. David Lloyd, Dean of Research, Trinity College Dublin

Friday 12th November 2010:

Launch of the Trócaire Development Review 2010: Strengthening Food Security

  1. The Right to Food: Legal, Political and Human Implications for a Food Security Agenda. View the presentation delivered by Dr. Su-ming Khoo, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
  2. The Role of Trade and the WTO in Ensuring Food Security. View the presentation delivered by Gerard Downes, University of Limerick
  3. The Impact of Conservation Agriculture on Food Security in Two Districts of Zimbabwe. View the presentation delivered by Malachy Harty, International Development and Food Policy, University College Cork
    (and Paul Wagstaff, Agriculture Advisor, Concern Worldwide).

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Trinity Development Research Week: 9th - 13th November 2009

Friday 13th November 2009:

TIDI Business Meeting: To view the presentation please click here

TIDI Seminar on Climate Change Research

  1. View the presentation delivered by speaker Prof. Mike Jones, Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences on "Impacts of climate change on tropical ecosystems" (PDF 160MB)
  2. View the presentation delivered by speaker Mr. Laurence Gill, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering on "Strategies for the provision of adequate water and sanitation in changeable climates" (PDF 360MB)
  3. View the presentation delivered by speaker Prof. Mark Dyer, Director, TrinityHaus, on "Slim cities:Transforming Dublin into a low-carbon society" (PDF 309MB)

Wednesday 11th November:

Launch of the Trocaire Development Review: Business, Ethics and International Development: Which Way Forward

  1. View the presentation delivered by Hannah Greene on "Corporate Accountability for Human Rights: Using the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises as a Tool" (PPT 270KB)
  2. View the presentation delivered by speaker Mark Cumming on "Responsible investment and its place in development: challenges for the Irish National Pensions Reserve Fund" (PPT 2.48MB)
  3. View the presentation delivered by David McNair on "Tax Justice – the impact of global tax policy on developing countries and the role Ireland can play" (PPT 1.24MB)
  4. View the presentation delivered by Michael King and Frank Barry on "The Coherence of Ireland’s Foreign Direct Investment Policy with Development Aid Objectives" (PPT 1.24MB)
  5. View the presentation delivered by Ed Brown and Jonathan Cloke on "Creative Destruction? Energy Poverty and the Double-edged Role of the Private Sector" (PPT 1.20MB)
  6. View the presentation delivered by Bobby Kerr, CEO of Insomnia (PPT 5.67MB)

 

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Additional Seminars

 

Inspiring Futures – Empowerment through Education: Thursday 8th March 2012

View the presentation delivered by Jenny Hobbs, Education Adviser, Concern Worldwide. 

TIDI Development Research Showcase: Thursday 20th May 2010

  1. View the presentation delivered by Adebola Adedimeji, Centre for Global Health - "Challenges associated with reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on Ethiopia and Nigeria’ (PDF 148MB)
  2. View the presentation delivered by Tara McIndoe Calder, Department of Economics - 'Cotton farming and land reform in Zimbabwe’ (PDF 2.16MB)
  3. View the presentation delivered by Padraic Fallon, Department of Clinical Medicine – ‘A worm a day to keep the doctor away?’ please click here
  4. View the presentation delivered by Amir Anwar, Department of Geography - ‘Bringing globalization to the countryside: conflicts around special economic zones in India’ (PDF 3.6B).

Copenhagen: Delivering Climate Justice: 25th November 2009

View the presentation delivered by Patrick Lameck, INADES Formation in Tanzania (PDF 786KB)

 

Millennium Development Goals Lecture Series

 

 

Millennium Development Goals Lecture Series

View presentations delivered as part of the Millennium Development Goals Lecture Series

 

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