Who Joins our Part-time PhD Programme?
Today we’re joined by Carlos Cadena Gaitan, one of our PhD fellows who also coordinates our GPAC2 dual career programme. That’s our part-time PhD course, designed for people who want to combine doctor...
19 Syys 20123min
What's it like to study with us? Stefania Innocenti
This week we spoke to Stefania Innocenti, a new PhD fellow on our Joint PhD Programme in Economics and Governance. She gave us her first impressions of the institute, city and PhD course. In terms of ...
13 Syys 20123min
"Working at the grassroots level in the mountains" -- N.K. Perumal, FINISH Sanitation project
In the last three years our FINISH project has built over 100,000 household toilets in India, changing the lives of half a million people in the country. Short for 'Financial Inclusion Improves Sanita...
6 Syys 20123min
Tracking Afghan Migration: Melissa Siegel
The head of our migration group at the School of Governance recently returned from Afghanistan, where she's been overseeing a migration project with the Afghan Government and international organizatio...
10 Huhti 20126min
Balancing Renewable Electricity: Thomas Ziesemer
"By 2050 anywhere from 80 to even 100 percent of our electricity will be generated from renewable energy sources." That's the ambitious and controversial claim made in a recent German report co-author...
6 Huhti 201210min
Assessing Innovation Policy in Thailand: Adam Szirmai
Professor Adam Szirmai runs our DEIP programme, short for 'Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policies in Developing countries'. It is a course which began in 2004, and since then has trained about 8...
23 Maalis 201211min
The Afghan Diaspora and Knowledge Transfer: Katie Kuschminder
On 13 March Katie Kuschminder presented to the Dutch Government the first policy report for the IS Academy: Migration and Development Project. Her report looked into the temporary return of highly ski...
15 Maalis 201214min
Mobilizing money in Africa: Siegel and Fransen
A new working paper tracks the rise of financial transfers via mobile phone in Africa. Building on this, our latest podcast asks authors Melissa Siegel and Sonja Fransen to explain the trends and the ...
2 Maalis 201214min
