Renowned scientist Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh will deliver a seminar on "Working for Local and Global Biodiversity and Sustainability under the Stress of Colonisation." The seminar will address threats such as climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, overexploitation, and colonialism, with a focus on Palestine. It will take place on Thursday, May 25th, and will be available both online and in-person. Attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy a light lunch provided by the Centre for Global Development (CGD).

The Centre for Global Development is organizing an informative seminar titled "The Ongoing NAKBA and the Current Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories." The event aims to shed light on the ongoing NAKBA, colonization, and apartheid in the region. Her Excellency Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, a seasoned diplomat, will provide valuable insights based on her expertise and experience.

DSA Ireland presents the Research Methods Summer School, offering practical insights on conducting research in the Global South. Join us on May 30th-31st at the South East Technological Institute in Carlow. Register now!

A small Irish NGO is addressing the missing crucial component for achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Join the seminar to learn how their approach, emphasizing personal responsibility, has made a significant impact on multiple SDGs.

DSAI Education Study Group welcomes Guest Lecture from Professor Howard Stein, University of Michigan from the Principal’s Library, St Mary’s University College, Belfast.

Centre for Global Development Seminar On “Approaches to Food Crises and Famine: The IPC Experience” By Dr John (Jannie) Armstrong from the United Nations FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation) as part of the IPC (Integrated Phase Classification) Food Security Workshop Tuesday (18/04/2023) 1-2pm.

The RTÉ commissioned documentary 'In the Name of the Son', directed by Mark McLoughlin.

The film revolves around the building of a legacy NGO in Malawi in memory of her son Billy Riordan who died tragically in Malawi. The 50-minute film will be aired Thursday (23/03/2023) at 22.15 on RTE1.

Online Seminar on Biodiversity Loss

Join Dr Dara Fitzpatrick for an online seminar exploring solutions to the urgent issue of biodiversity loss at a global and local level, on March 7th from 1pm to 2pm.

Conversation on Racism

Date: 6th March 1pm - 2pm

The Centre for Global Development (CGD) with the University of Sanctuary Working Group/EDI will host an event in recognition of Refugee Week and Mother Language Day. The event titled "Local Cultures, Languages and Knowledges in Migration Research" will take place on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.

A devastating earthquake has hit Turkey, causing immense damage and loss of life.
Higher education partners at the University of Ankara are desperately trying to support affected students and their families.
A list of reputable organizations has been shared to support the earthquake victims.

Trócaire’s photographic exhibition entitled: ‘The Face of Resistance and Women in their Place’ exhibition

Date: 1st to 16^th February 2023.

Venue:  Hub at UCC

Digital Badge in Citizenship for Global Development

Date: Every Wednesdays  5pm - 6pm

Venue: MS Teams (Online)

The ‘Irish Forum for Global Education’ (IFGE) invites you to UN International Day for Education - Online Seminar

Date:  Jan 24, 2023 01:00pm

Venue:  Zoom Meeting

Girls' Education in Nigeria

Date: Tuesday 14th June 1pm - 2pm

Venue: MS Teams (Online)

Speaker: Dr. Adepeju Oti

Conversation on Racism

A conversation, aimed at UCC staff, about racism and anti-racism in higher education

Date: 8th April 11am - 2pm

Venue: North Wing Common Room

Further Info: https://praxisucc.ie/praxis-week-2022/praxis-week-friday-8th-conversation-on-racism-11-2-pm/

Register Now: https://bit.ly/3uvTWU2

War in Ukraine: Context, Causes, Consequences

Date: 7th April 5.30 - 7.30pm

Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room. Ground Floor O'Rahilly Building

Further Info: https://praxisucc.ie/praxis-week-2022/thursday-7the-5-30-7-30-war-in-ukraine-context-causes-consequences/

War in Ethiopia - Causes, Impact on Civilians, and Response of the International Community

Date: 4th April 1 - 2.30pm

Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room. Ground Floor O'Rahilly Building

Tyndall Making MagIC - getting the Silicon Chip to use less energy

Date: Tuesday 15th March 1pm - 2pm

Venue: MS Teams (Online)

Speaker: Prof. Cian O’Mathuna

Covid 19: The Experience of Ethiopia

Date: Tuesday 8th March 1pm - 2pm

Venue: MS Teams (Online)

Speaker: Temesgen Awoke

Critical Perspectives on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The Role of the DSAI

Date: Tuesday 22nd February 1pm - 2pm

Venue: MS Teams (Online)

Speaker: Dr. Nita Mishra

ECO-ART IN PURSUIT OF A SUSTAINABLE PLANET

Date: Tuesday 15th February 1pm - 2pm

Venue: MS Teams (Online)

Speaker: Kathy Kirwan

Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Global and National Perspective

Date: Tuesday 8th February 1pm-2pm

Venue: Zoom

Speaker: Professor Ella Arensman

Sign Up Available until Monday 7th February 5pm

The Centre for Global Development is delighted to present this top event as part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series. The event will be co-hosted by UCC Research Staff Association. Prof. Mary Horgan - President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) will introduce our guest speaker

Women's Empowerment and Nutrition 

The aim of this webinar is to discuss how programmes promoting women’s empowerment can contribute to improved women’s nutrition and health, looking towards the Food Systems Summit 2021. The concept of nutritional empowerment as a method to identify barriers to increased nutrition will be presented. The webinar will present findings from research and case studies from Irish and other NGOs undertaking projects focussed on women’s empowerment. Discussion will explore lessons on programme design and implementation of development interventions which can simultaneously contribute to women’s empowerment and food security and nutrition.

Register Here

UCC Centre for Global Development and the Irish Forum for International Agricultural Development (IFIAD) webinar on Access to Nutrition – How can we make nutritious food affordable for all?

Chaired by Sophie Healy Thow, speakers included Anna Herforth, Corinna Hawkes, Mary Corbett (Self Help Africa), Lilly Schofield (Save the Children) and Joseph Odyek (Concern Liberia). This webinar will provides an overview of the global challenges relating to cost of diet, and presents case study evidence from projects involving Irish and international NGOs. The discussion of potential solutions are guided by some of the “Game Changer” ideas being developed as part of the Food Systems Summit Action Track 1 process.

 Slides can be viewed here. 

 Lunchtime Seminar Series hosted by the Centre for Global Development with guest speakers each week. 

THEME: ‘The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Science and the Social Sciences: Engaging the Wider Community’

Every Tuesday for 1pm-2pm.

Link to the seminar here

 Lunchtime Seminar Series hosted by the Centre for Global Development with guest speakers each week. 

Every Tuesday for 1pm-2pm.

Link to the seminar here

New in 2019!

UCC Community Week is a new week long programme of public and community events, co-created by people across the university and together with community partners. If you are planning any event with a public, community or partnership focus for the Autumn this year, we'd encourage you to consider running it during this week.

The Plan will be launched by UCC President Professor Patrick G. O’Shea

 on Wednesday, 5^th June 2019, at 17:00 pm to 18:00 pm

in the Aula Maxima, University College Cork

ALL ARE WELCOME

The third DSAI Summer School is hosted by the UCC Centre for Global Development and focuses on innovative ways of doing development research which places participation and "citizen-driven" research at the centre of its practice.  

STUDENT CONCESSION RATE: €25.00, WAGED: €50.00

REGISTER HERE: https://www.dsaireland.org/updates/events/dsai-summer-school/

Dr Nick Chisholm, Director of the CGD, and Dr Darius Whelan,  Senior Lecturer, UCC School of Law, are visiting the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai.

University College Cork is pleased to offer three full scholarships to eligible students on the MSc Food Security Policy and Management.

Dr Sinead Walsh, current EU Ambassador to South Sudan and formerly Irish Ambassador to Sierra Leone

Tuesday 5^th March, 1 – 2 p.m, Western Gateway Building Lecture Room G.02 - ALL WELCOME

The UCC Centre for Global Development and Irish Forum for International Agricultural Development (IFIAD) are delighted to invite you to the Irish launch of the EAT-Lancet Commission Report on Food, Planet, Health

All welcome but booking is required. Find out more and Register here! 

21st March 2019, Geography Building Lecture Room 1, UCC, 1-2pm, 

By Izzy Bishop, Research Manager, Freshwater Watch.

Development and Governance in Central Asia

Donor approaches to ODA and development finance have changed in the aftermath of the economic crisis – and as a result of new priorities.  How and why has aid changed – and what might the effects be for developing countries?  How are these changes reflected in EU aid policy – and what role can Ireland play?

Students, Staff, General Public come together to discuss the Sustainable Development Goal Zero Hunger

UCC has signalled its commitment on World Food Day (16th October) to addressing global food security issues through its teaching, research, and student and public engagement. President O'Shea today signed the Presidents United to Solve Hunger (PUSH) commitment, making UCC the first Irish University to sign this commitment and joining about 100 Universities worldwide who have already done so.

UCC’s Centre for Global Development has awarded two Masters’ Research Scholarships to support post-graduate research relating to two of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).

A new undergraduate programme in International Development Studies, a joint initiative of UCC’s Department of Food Business and Development and the Vietnam’s University of Social Sciences and Humanities has begun this week. The official launch was by Ireland’s Ambassador to Vietnam, Cáit Moran, in Hanoi on 17^th September. 

UCC Refugee Week- Celebrating UCC's University of Sanctuary Status & Supporting Cork City's bid to become a City of Sanctuary

Admission Free to all Events. Continue reading for timetable of events 

ALL WELCOME - FREE EVENT

Since the ‘reception crisis’ of 2015, it has become increasingly clear that the countries of the Global North are overwhelmed by the task of decision-making faced with the plea for refuge. As the philosopher Hannah Arendt said of a different point in history, ‘the European peoples went to pieces, when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.’ (Arendt 1943). It wasn’t just in Europe. The record of decision-making in line with the Refugee Convention in the Antipodes and in the United States of America is also wanting.

ALL WELCOME  - FREE EVENT

ALL WELCOME – FREE EVENT

The Centre for Global Development held a Reception in UCC on 14^th November, attended by UCC staff and representatives of external agencies. The Reception was held to underline UCC’s strong commitment to harnessing the expertise and enthusiasm of UCC staff and students to address major global challenges, and to emphasise the importance of the CGD in fulfilling UCC’s aims, as expressed in the recently launched Strategic Plan 2017-2022.

Valid Nutrition is an Irish-based NGO working to combat malnutrition in the developing world. VN has a strong focus on developing new affordable products which can be produced locally where possible, and on building evidence of what works. VN produces Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) in its production plant in Malawi which are distributed through UNICEF, WFP and the Ministry of Health to combat acute child under-nutrition.

The CGD issued an invitation to students interested in global development to submit a poster describing their activities, which could relate to research, campaigning, volunteering or other ways students engage with development. In launching this competition the CGD aimed to bring such student activities to a wider audience. A diverse number of posters were submitted and displayed at the UCC International Development Showcase event on 10^th November.

You are cordially invited to a meeting of the CGD Assembly (any staff in UCC with an interest in international/global development) on Thursday 9^th November at 4pm – 5 pm in the Council Room. Dr Nick Chisholm, Director of the CGD, will make a brief presentation on the Centre followed by an open discussion where we are seeking your views on potential priority areas that the CGD might address. The meeting will be followed by a Reception in the Staff Common Room from 5pm, to which you are all invited.

UCC’s Department of Food Business and Development is entering into a partnership with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), Mekelle University Ethiopia, and Teagasc to implement a three-year action research project in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, funded by Irish Aid Ethiopia with additional support to the project through Teagasc Walsh Fellowships. The project will be focussed on the Gergera watershed, which in the past has experienced substantial natural resource degradation and out-migration.

At the Cork Life Centre we are fortunate to work with a group of young people who are thoughtful, considerate and socially conscious-it takes little encouragement to engage them in topics or projects involving the goal and idea of making our world a better place to live. This October staff and students produced a book on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals with a student and a staff member responding to each of the goals and their importance in our lives.

The ‘IMPACT Project’ (usIng Mobile Phones for Assessing, Classifying and Treating sick children) is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Information Systems (IS) experts including Dr. Ciara Heavin, Dr. Yvonne O’Connor, Dr. Grace Kenny and Mr. Emmanuel Eze from the Health Information Systems Research Centre (HISRC), University College Cork, Ireland, and Dr. Eddy Ndibuagu from the Department of Community Medicine, Parklane Teaching Hospital, Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT), Enugu, Nigeria. IMPACT is focused on assessing the feasibility of a mobile health solution (mHealth) at the level of community healthcare in Enugu State, Nigeria.
As part of this project, two research visits to Enugu, Nigeria have been undertaken to date. In doing so, the research team have acquired excellent insights into the feasibility of deploying a leading edge mHealth solution (IMPACT) using robust secure cloud-based data storage in a rural community, where the reliability of technical infrastructure is a challenge.

The UN Environment GEMS/Water Capacity Development Centre at UCC has attracted students from 12 countries for its new Postgraduate Diploma in Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Assessment.

The new, online programme, which runs over two years, has recruited 20 students from 10 African countries and two Caribbean countries.

Developed with funding to the UN Environment GEMS/Water Capacity Development Centre, a Centre of the School of BEES and the ERI, the programme aims to support countries in establishing or improving their freshwater quality monitoring systems.

“We have been both surprised and extremely pleased to see the level of interest from low-income countries in this new online programme. For most of our students this is a totally new approach to learning, but they are enthusiastic and keen to take on the challenge,” said Dr Deborah V Chapman, Director, UNEP GEMS/Water Capacity Development Centre, UCC.

The new Postgraduate Diploma has been developed after consultation with low-income countries, primarily in Africa, and in Latin America and the Caribbean, about their needs to improve national efforts to monitor freshwater quality.

https://youtu.be/wSSgKVXd8SE

Monday 5th November 1-2pm, Room 122, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex (BHSC-122) 

The role of Leadership for Faith Based Organisations as key development partners in Kenya by Tobias Odipo, MA Leadership, B.Com. H.Dip.Theo. LEAD (Leadership, Empowerment and Development)

The webinar presentations below: 

ADB Careers Presentation

MSc Food Security Policy and Management Careers Presentation

Building on established links and partnerships between the University of Veracruz, Mexico and University College Cork, the Centre for Global Development presented a shared virtual event with distinguished colleagues from Mexico.  Key themes relating to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs) will be explored with specific reference to education, health, and food security and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Find recordings from the webinar below.

Webinar introduction