It’s been an unprecedented year in the University for the Division of Human and Social Sciences in terms of Research & Innovation Prizes. The winners … Read more
June News RoundUp
We explored resettlement in Refugee Week, recognised Pride by examining inequalities in sexual minority earnings and our development economists delved into child marriage, climate change, … Read more
Pride Month: Researching sexual minority disparities in earnings
Lucy Watson is in the last year of her undergraduate degree and chose to take the dissertation option. She blogs about her research here. ‘I … Read more
Infrastructure project in Bangladesh induced marital migration by rural-born women
New research led by Dr Zaki Wahhaj and Dr Amrit Amirapu shows how a major transport infrastructure project in Bangladesh in the 1990s induced marital … Read more
Booming entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr Anthony Savagar has collaborated with Saleem Bahaj from the Bank of England’s Research Hub and Sophie Piton who works in the Bank of England’s … Read more
The long-term impacts of refugee resettlement
During Refugee Week 2022 Rinchan Mirza, comments on how European governments integrating Ukrainian refugees into their territories need to understand the long-term impacts of refugee … Read more
Thoughts on Ukrainian people and Refugee Week 2022
Earlier this year Dr Olena Nizalova, who is from Ukraine, helped family members escape to the UK. Since then she has been heavily involved in … Read more
And They’re Off!
Our Year in Industry students are about to head off! We met with them to prepare for this exciting new adventure. The new cohort for … Read more
Using personalised information delivery to improve uptake of emergency government benefits
Ongoing research by the Development Economics Research Centre at Kent, is featured in Ideas for India. Based on a field experiment in Kanpur in Uttar … Read more
Workshop: Microeconomic Approaches to Development Economics
From child marriage to climate change, conflict to wellbeing, from India to Pakistan via Uganda and Tanzania, this Dereck workshop was both diverse and International. … Read more