05 June 2025
DID News May
Latest updates from the Department of International Development.

Welcome to this month's roundup of news, events, and publications from DID.
Jobs
Lecturer in Technology and International Development | King's College London Closing date: 22 June 2025.
Grants
Professor Andrea Cornwall secured a Leverhulme Trust major research fellowship for ‘A cultural history of gender in development’ Grant listings | The Leverhulme Trust
Recent publications
Imaging Resistance among Migrant Women: Building Community and Connection McIlwaine, C., Peppl, R., Cal Angrisani, C. & Martin, P., 30 May 2025, London: King's College London. 39 p.
The state is still on top in China’s carbon market Li, R., 28 May 2025, In: East Asia Forum.
Corporate Financialization: A Conceptual Clarification and Critical Review of the Literature Rabinovich, J. & Reddy, N., 19 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Review of Political Economy.
Internationalisation and Moral Economies in Healthcare: NHS Exporting and the English Patient Hunter, B., 7 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Globalization And Health.
Importing export zones: Processes and impacts of replicating a Chinese model of urbanisation in rural south India Goodburn, C. & Knoerich, J., 2 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China: Speculation, Articulation, and Translation in Global Capitalism. Shin, H. B., Zhao, Y. & Koh, S. Y. (eds.). Oxford: Routledge, p. 40-62 23 p.
“Those feminists haven't come to us, they don't know our reality”: Indian sex workers' narratives of love and power Cornwall, A. & Majumdar, S., May 2025, In: Gender, Work and Organization. 32, 3, p. 1106-1121 16 p.
Recent Events
Goddess Durga Unveiled: The Timeless Power of Emotion | King's College London 13 May 2025
International Development Undergraduate Taster Event - 27 May 2025 | King's College London 27 May 2025
Upcoming Events
Blogs & Media
Beyond the Strongman: What’s at Stake in South Korea’s Snap Presidential Election – The Diplomat co-authored by Dr Nahee Kang
29 May
Opinion | How the iPhone Drove Men and Women Apart - The New York Times featuring Dr Alice Evans
29 May
EADI at 50: Thinking Through the Winter, Looking to the Spring and the Next Chapter – Debating Development Research by Dr Andy Sumner
27 May
A 2% wealth tax on UK's richest could have raised £160 billion in 32 years | King's College London by Dr Benjamin Tippet
20 May