By Caitlin Finlayson, PhD Candidate with the Institute for Human Security and Social Change, gives us an insight into her first few months working in an action research collaboration with Oxfam NZ. Academic researchers and international non-government organisations (iNGOs) working together is already a widely debated topic. Developing effective collaborations are possible but requires both actors to think and work in different ways. My research looks … Continue reading How do you actually do action research?

This post by Institue of Human Security and Social Change Director Chris Roche originally appeared on Duncan Green’s From Poverty To Power blog.  Chris Roche (the koala – I’m [Duncan Green] the kangaroo, right) is a friend and a brilliant development thinker, even if he has an alarming tendency to be able to reference development jargon like a machine gun. If you can get past the … Continue reading Overcoming Premature Evaluation

Aidan Craney reflects on the biennial Oceanic Conference on International Studies held in July at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Continue reading Global and Local: Reflections on the Seventh Oceanic Conference on International Studies

By Chris Roche The Developmental Leadership Program will host its 2016 Annual Conference at La Trobe University in Melbourne on 8 February. Its theme is ‘Power, Politics and Positive Deviance’. It is pretty obvious why a DLP conference would focus on power and politics, but why positive deviance? And what is it anyway? Perhaps the best known text on this topic is The Power of … Continue reading Identifying rebels with a cause (and effect)