Centre for Global Development

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The Centre for Global Development (CGD) was established in 1984 as an interdisciplinary network, integrating research and expertise across the University of Leeds, addressing the transformation of human societies in response to critical global challenges such as poverty, inequality and climate change.

CGD is now a hub for research and engagement on the politics of global development, rooted in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). It forms one of the central pillars of the School’s aim to address the politics of global challenges. Researchers engage with critical understandings of past, present and future global transformations from the local to the global scale. Intellectually CGD unified by a commitment to analysing how politics and power produce and perpetuate multiple intersecting inequalities, as well as exploring ideas and practices of ‘just’ transformations in human societies.

This work is rooted in critical development studies and the political economy of development. CGD is no longer specifically focused on ‘developing’ countries or the ‘Global South’: the interconnected challenges of poverty, inequality and climate change demand global understandings.

CGD has a long history of interdisciplinarity and membership is open across the University of Leeds. Its core membership is in POLIS in the social sciences and in critical development studies, but the nature of development studies means that the centre rarely works in isolation. CGD actively seeks collaboration between the natural and physical sciences, engineering, medical sciences and the humanities.

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1984

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University of Leeds
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