Resources, research, & consulting in Development sector. Curating opportunities 🥳 [email protected]
Bochum, Germany
Joined March 2019
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This is @MsChimezie writing. As I earlier tweeted, there are a number of development-focused Stiftungs and orgs in Germany that are interested in funding ur studies. I researched some of them and I hope you advance the research too. Here they are: 1/
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Between September to October, I completed first drafts of:
• A journal article I am leading
• A sole-author research methodology book chapter
• Wrote first edition of @devblossoming newsletter
• began leading a project at work
It has been a very intense two months.
It is coming to @SussexUni
📢 The Call for Panels for #DSA2027 is now open!
📍 Join us at @SussexDev, co-hosted by @IDS_UK 💻 The conference will be hybrid, so you can also attend online
🌍 Read more:
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📢 The Call for Panels for #DSA2027 is now open!
📍 Join us at @SussexDev, co-hosted by @IDS_UK 💻 The conference will be hybrid, so you can also attend online
🌍 Read more:
buff.ly/DFKBmrz
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Last moments to apply for our visiting programmes!
Applications are closing soon for our popular Visiting PhD Fellowship and Visiting Scholar programmes. Join our vibrant research community in Helsinki!
Apply by Sept 30👉 go.unu.edu/x5AD
Launching our newsletter 🎉
In this edition, @MsChimezie shared insights on how early-career researchers can integrate research impact in their works, drawing from her tested approach 👌
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#EarlyCareerResearcher #ResearchImpact
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Every year, thousands apply for a spot in the Africa #WBGFellows Program. So, why not you?
Visit the website for more details: bit.ly/4aQYNW7
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I am currently reading @MazzucatoM’s The Entrepreneurial State. Interesting insights on the research, funded by public sector, that led to advancement in AI and other tech innovations.
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AI is already reshaping education, health systems, governments, and labor markets.
The question is no longer whether it can be used for social good, but how.
In J-PAL's AI for Social Good series, we explore what we're learning about using AI to improve lives, and the evidence needed to shape its impact.
povertyactionlab.org/blog?re…
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One of my articles was cited in a 2026 textbook, “Public Debt and Economic resilience in Africa”, published by Springer Nature.
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You can read our latest journal article on Extended family system and Welfare care in post-COVID Nigeria: a case study of Warri.
We conducted a household survey. Interesting insights
rdcu.be/ffdYG (open access)
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Did I tell you guys?
Two of my abstracts have been accepted. A book chapter in an upcoming edited book by Taylor and Francis, and the second is a journal article on Springer Nature.
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A large temporary cash incentive rapidly enrolled millions of informal workers into Thailand's voluntary social insurance programme, demonstrating that enrolment barriers can be overcome when incentives are strong enough. voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
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Policies that allocate scarce resources often embed hidden values. Researchers develop a method to recover the value judgments implicit in allocation rules and apply it to Mexico’s flagship cash transfer programme, PROGRESA.
ALT Expected programme impacts under alternative preferences
🆕 The hidden values in government policy decisions
Today on VoxDev, @danbjork (@ColumbiaSIPA), @jblumenstock (@BerkeleyISchool) & Samsun Knight (@rotmanschool) discuss how policies embed implicit value judgments: voxdev.org/topic/methods-mea…
PhD opportunity alert! Max Planck PhD opportunity in social sciences.
Deadline: 15 Feb 2026. Apply now! #developmentblossoming
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Conference paper alert: Submit your paper for the 2026
Jobs and Development Conference, holding in Hong Kong.
Deadline: 20 March 2026
linkedin.com/posts/unu-wider…
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🚨 Applications now open for the Opportunity Mobility and Inherited Inequalities visiting PhD grant!
This supports research students from other universities to spend one academic term at the International Inequalities Institute.
Apply by 30 January ⬇️
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I'm recruiting at Cohere for someone to work on pretraining model evaluations! If you're interested in really understanding how to evaluate base models, please apply at the following link (and DM me as well so I know to look for your application).
jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/6f22…
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CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027
The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'
⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-sout…
ALT Fellow giving a presentation.
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Our team at GDM is hiring a Student Researcher (SR) next year 🧠
If you’re a PhD student working on LLMs please apply. I’d love to hear from you.
Please fill out this form: forms.gle/bxTEkrDPacn6jSxi6