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People viewing the Entangled exhibition at the launch in June 2024

01 October 2024

Entangled: Southern African Artists explore Colonialism, Monuments and Memory

Curated by ODID alumna Julie Taylor, Entangled is a thought-provoking art exhibition at Oxford’s Rhodes House, examining memorialisation, decolonisation and legacies of violence in Southern Africa.

11 September 2024

What's next? ODID research on global issues: refugee studies

In the latest video in our series exploring how the multiple crises facing the world, from the pandemic to climate change, are transforming the issues we work on, Alexander Betts, Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, discusses the impact on refugee studies.

Two people stand alongside a black and white illustration on the wall

21 August 2024

Film, fiction and social change

A recent ODID roundtable profiled uses of film and literature in research in ways that place culture in conversation with the social sciences, use it as a medium of academic communication, storytelling or knowledge production, or deploy it as evidence of political or social change.

08 August 2024

New Director sets out ambitious plans for Young Lives

Newly appointed Young Lives Director Marta Favara reflects on the study's successes so far, outlines three new areas of work and highlights plans for the longer term.

25 July 2024

Decolonising resilience: the urgent need to think beyond ‘inclusion’

Local communities and Indigenous peoples must be seen as agents, rather than as passive subjects of Eurocentric resilience policies.

A wooden structure with corrugated iron roof with a solar panel propped outside against a backdrop of trees

02 July 2024

Cutting-edge steps towards a fair energy transition in Amazonia

A recent ODID panel event highlighted pioneering work by the University of Campinas in Brazil in developing sustainable energy solutions.

A woman in a brightly coloured headdress having her iris scanned

13 June 2024

How digital technologies are transforming refugees’ experiences

The latest issue of Forced Migration Review considers the double-sided nature of digital technologies and their implications for displaced people across the globe.

Agricultural workers in a strawberry field

31 May 2024

Mexican government failing to provide decent jobs for vulnerable youth – leaving the door open to cartel recruitment

New research has overturned assumptions about why young Mexican men are vulnerable to recruitment into violent gangs, with implications for government policy.

Workers sorting produce on a factory floor

13 May 2024

Understanding the world through the lens of ‘work’

From Ugandan scientists to Syrian refugee educators, South African state officials to former US coalminers, a recent roundtable highlighted ODID’s richly diverse ethnographic research into “work”.

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