This post is written by Dr. Ben Kasstan, a medical anthropologist at the University of Sussex. It is unreasonable to expect hesitant parents to accept vaccinations automatically. Vaccinations are among the most successful public health interventions to reduce childhood morbidity…
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Global Studies Wellbeing PhD Workshops
This post is written by Dr. Gemma Houldey of International Development as part of our ‘Anxieties and Mental Health During Stressful Academic Times’ blog series. Gemma and Evie Browne are promoting mental health workshops for researchers that will run in…
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Higher Education: The Good, the Bad and the Paradoxical
This post is written by Ilaria Alessandrelli and Yuvinka Ribero Hurtado, 3rd year students in Anthropology and International Development. It is written as part of our blog series on ‘Anxieties and Mental Health During Stressful Academic Times’. Do you remember…
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South Africa: The Rainbow Nation?
This post is written by Lizzi Joyner, a first-year undergraduate in International Development, as part of our ‘Experiences in Diversity’ series. She talks about her experiences on ICS in partnership with Tearfund and Zoe-Life in South Africa. She writes at…
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Mobilising patriarchy for comfort: confessions of a white male anthropologist of India
This post is written as part of our March series on ‘Experiences in Diversity’ by Rich Thornton, a PhD candidate in Anthropology. Rich is currently conducting fieldwork on the subjectivity and subjectification of teachers and social entrepreneurs of education in…
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IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION by @NeilDooley M.Maitou on Eurogroup's response to #Covid19 - as negotiations go on today: "If the EU was looking for the moment to assert genuine ‘normative power’, and to build trust and unity, surely this is it."@CGPE_Sussex @SussexPolitics @SussexGlobal https://twitter.com/NeilDooley/status/1248156889998819329
Coronavirus and the EU's 'Triple Crisis' - Maria Maitou and my piece for the excellent @SSRP_UoS forum @aaantoniades https://www.sussex.ac.uk/ssrp/resources/forum/neil-maria
"#Environment and #poverty during the #Coronavirus crisis: a lesson for global collaboration" a brilliant piece by my @SSRP_UoS FCES co-investigator Alex Antonarakis. PANDEMIC FORUM @SussexGeog @SussexGlobal @SussexUBusiness @CGPE_Sussex @SussexAnthropol
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/ssrp/resources/forum/alexander-antonarakis
In her @Medium blog post last month, @SussexAnthropol finalist Charlotte Brill highlights the dark experiences of North Koreans who defect through China or South Korea. See her full post: http://ow.ly/AdHH50z97qi
"...as western companies are rapidly cancelling orders, #COVID19 forces us to ask serious questions about the sustainability of a global production regime that thrives on a footloose & hugely exposed workforce in the Global South." 💬 Prof Geert De Neeve @SussexGlobal @SSRP_UoS https://twitter.com/SSRP_UoS/status/1247859695773245441
Lockdown and cancelled orders due to #COVID19Pandemic threatens the livelihoods and wellbeing of India’s garment workers. In the latest SSRP forum blog, Prof Geert De Neve reflects on how this exposes unsustainable global production regimes: https://bit.ly/2JNdbSf