International Development & Climate Crisis: How can we safeguard children's futures?
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Thursday 9 December 2021
3pm-4.30pm
Online
Register here
The Children's Climate Risk Index
In recent months and years, we have all been thinking more about the risks of climate change, and the children of the world have been showing us how they feel about it.
The Data for Children Collaborative's (DCC) Children's Climate Risk Index project found that nearly half of the world’s children live in countries that are at extremely high climate risk.
At this event, we will hear from the DCC team about its essential research and recommendations for what we can do next.
The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF is hosted by the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Institute and is a partnership between:
- UNICEF
- The Scottish Government
- The University of Edinburgh
In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, where data is a driving force and evidence is vital to decision making, the collaborative wants to use data to produce real-world impacts that help the world’s children. Its goal is to use data and expertise, including innovative data science techniques, from our community to address existing problems for children.
The Event
This online event provides an opportunity to:
- Understand more about the issues this data provides evidence for
- Find out how this can influence policy, planning and sustainable international development
Join us to learn how we’re working with partners to address these critical international development areas, and about the opportunities to make a difference presented by these partnerships.
International development programmes at The University of Edinburgh
If you want to learn more about international development and how you can be involved in creating real change to lives and societies across the planet, take a look at our range of postgraduate study programmes.
Our programmes cover the most critical areas of international development. Find out more:
- Africa and International Development
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This MSc encourages you to critically explore the burning issues in the context of Africa:
- Development
- Social Change
- Governance
- Inclusive growth
Our master’s students have the opportunity to join the inclusive group of world-class scholars that make up Edinburgh's Centre of African Studies (CAS), an internationally recognised hub for research and teaching on Africa. We are one of the oldest and largest African Studies centres in Europe and we pride ourselves on undertaking a diverse range of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research.
Run by the School of Social and Political Science
- Comparative Education and International Development
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This programme will help you understand how the global and local shape education policy, and the role education plays in various aspects of development, including health, peacebuilding, and citizenship.
At the end of this programme, you will have a more critical understanding of the policies, politics, histories, ideas and cultural practices that influence education.
- Environment and Development
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This programme explores the link between the environment and development agendas and global inequalities - for today and the future. It equips students to critically evaluate the multiple dimensions of the inter-relationship between development and the environment, with an abiding concern for social and environmental justice.
Run by the School of Geosciences
- Global Challenges
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Our MSc Global Challenges examines issues around how nearly eight billion people can live well on one planet, and how this can only be understood and tackled effectively by taking multiple perspectives and drawing on a range of disciplines.
Run by the School of Social and Political Science, the School of Geosciences, and Edinburgh Medical School.
- International Development
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How can international thinking and perspectives on development have impact on societies in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
This programme engages critically with international development thinking and practice, and more broadly with processes of social, political and economic transformation throughout the global south.
Run by the School of Social and Political Science
- Sport Policy, Management, and International Development
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The increasing social, economic and political role of sport is a key feature of life in the 21st century. The MSc in Sport Policy, Management and International Development provides a critical understanding of key concepts necessary for employment and critical engagement across all sport sectors.
Key to the success of our programme has been our commitment to research-led teaching, our excellent levels of student support, a curriculum specifically geared to the needs of home and international students, and our many links to local, national and international sport organisations, including:
- The Homeless World Cup
- World Mountain Biking Championships
- Urban Rat Race events
- Spartans Community Football Academy
- Edinburgh Leisure
- Scottish Rugby Union