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  1. Free Online Course: Global Health and Disability

    Leaving no one behind: disability, health and wellbeing in global development A 3 week (maximum 4 hours per week) free online course from the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Course starts 26th February 2018 For more details, to check out the trailer or to register your free place on the course, click here. Why join the course: Around 15% of the world’s population, or 1 billion pe…

  2. Online Discussion: People and the Planet: The Future of Development in a Post-COVID-19 World

    …/ 9.30 am EDT. COVID19 has unleashed an unprecedented human development crisis putting at risk the hard fought gains of the last decades. It is a wake-up call on the devastating effects of the increasing pressure we are placing on our planet. But in the endeavor of confronting the multiple implications of this crisis, there is also an opportunity to reimagine what is possible and desirable for the future. Policies are currently being designed to…

  3. Online Seminar: Will digital technologies save us from the pandemic?

    …25, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (EDT) REGISTER HERE https://event.newschool.edu/digitaltechnologies Panelists: – Sean McDonald, Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and co-founder of Digital Public – Susan Erikson, Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada – Stephen L. Roberts, Assistant Professor, University College London, UK – Manjari Mahajan, Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Direc…

  4. CfP: On Poverty and Its Eradication

    …mission Deadlines: 28 February 2022 – Abstract 30 April 2022 – Manuscript Visit the collection homepage for the full description of the project: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/27921/ Participating Journals – manuscripts can be submitted to this Research Topic via the following journals: – Frontiers in Sociology: Migration and Society (2020 CiteScore 1.2) – Frontiers in Sociology: Work, Employment and Organizations (2020 CiteScore 1.2)…

  5. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. A Sociological Perspective

    …supply chains and severely affected small-scale industries. Less technology-intensive industries have also taken longer to recover than medium and high-technology industries, such as the pharmaceutical, computer, electronics and automotive sectors. The UN nonetheless notes that the crisis offers the opportunity to foster industrialization and improve the global distribution of groundbreaking technologies. In emerging from the pandemic, it highligh…

  6. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty. A Sociological Perspective

    …licy ideas and policy instruments, and policy transfer and learning. – Multi-level, cross-sectoral, and multi-sectoral cooperation of various stakeholders, including public, private, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and non-formal entities. – Evaluation of poverty reduction schemes and strategies. Keywords: SDG1, COVID-19, poverty, unfairness, informal economy, solidarity economy Co-Editors: – Andrzej Klimczuk, SGH Warsaw School of Economics…

  7. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. A Sociological Perspective

    …ions in the incidence of communicable diseases and mortality rates from non-communicable diseases. The pandemic threatens to reverse or stall much of this progress. As of June 2021, the global death toll from COVID-19 stood at 3.7 million, with manifold wider ramifications of the disease. Ninety per cent of countries are still reporting one or more disruptions to essential health services, and available data indicates that the pandemic has shorten…

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