Development Day
On 15th of November 2011 the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) of Ruhr-University Bochum, the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) and the Institute for Political Science (IfP) at the University of Duisburg-Essen officially founded the UAMR Graduate Centre in Development Studies.The research institutions are bundling their research activities under the umbrella of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR).
The Rectors of the cooperating universities, Prof. Dr. Elmar Weiler (RUB) and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Radtke (UDE), signed the cooperation agreement before Prof. Brian O’Connell, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, a cooperation partner of RUB since more than 10 years, gave a keynote speech. As members of the steering board of the newly founded centre Prof. Dr. Löwenstein and Prof. Dr. Christof Hartmann presented the idea of the UAMR Graduate Centre in Development Studies. With more than 80 researchers, among those 16 full professors and 18 post-docs,three Master’s and two PhD programs, more than 100 masters and 50 PhD-students the centre is one of the largest development research institutions in Europe.
The opening ceremony was arranged as a D(evelopment)-Day - a day devoted to the development research and was therefore open to all students and employees of cooperating universities. In addition to this also the PhD-Candidates of the University of East Anglia, the cooperation partner of IEE-PhD-Program in Development Studies, attended the D(evelopment)-Day and presented their research results during the poster session together with more than 40 poster presentations of the PhD-Students and Researchers of UAMR Graduate Centre in Development Studies. In addition professors and PhD candidates of the new centre delivered short lectures on current problems of development from different perspectives.
Clusters IEE
There are three main research clusters at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy.
These are
- Regional and Global Integration,
- Aid Effectiveness, and
- Resource Use and Distribution.
Clusters IfP & INEF
There are major research clusters at INEF and IfP. These are:
- Development Policies in Fragile Environments;
- Domestic political contexts in developing countries / area studies; and
- Private sector, development and global health.
Clusters IfP & INEF
There are three major research clusters at INEF and IfP.
These are
- Development Policies in Fragile Environments;
- Domestic political contexts in developing countries / area studies; and
- Private sector, development and global health.
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