July 2021
Parastatal activity and frontier violence: the rise of coercive brokerage and a shifting global order
Bringing together academic colleagues from across the globe to explore research ideas on how best to understand parastatal and criminal armed groups, and what they can tell us about broader development and statebuilding processes.
Find out more »July 2020
Data documentation, metadata and data archiving
How research projects can prepare data for future reuse, how to document them, why metadata matter and where and how data can be archived or published.
Find out more »Data management: GDPR, consent and anonymisation
Data protection and ethical obligations towards research participants play a role in how easily (or not) research data can be shared and reused. In this webinar, you can learn more about how to put those legal and ethical obligations into practice, illustrated with practical examples and Q&A with Drugs & (dis)order Data Manager Veerle Van den Eynden.
Find out more »June 2020
Online data management exchange
An exchange of knowledge and experience on data management for projects funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) GROW programme.
Find out more »November 2019
Myanmar workshop 2019
Bringing together the Myanmar partners to analyse emerging findings from year 2 fieldwork, and to plan for the next year's research and engagement work.
Find out more »October 2019
Comparative research workshop
Partners meet in London to develop the comparative research component of the project.
Find out more »July 2019
Consortium workshop 2019
This project-wide workshop brings together the Drugs and (dis)order team from four countries to share emerging findings and plan for the year ahead.
Find out more »January 2019
Researching violence and illicit economies: methods, ethics and security
This workshop asked challenging questions about the tensions and trade-offs of researching violence and illicit economies.
Find out more »November 2018
Myanmar workshop 2018
Bringing together the Myanmar partners to start analysing the first round of fieldwork, and build capacities on methodological approaches, visual storytelling, geo-spacial analysis and stakeholder mapping.
Find out more »March 2018
Consortium workshop 2018
The first project-wide annual meeting, aimed at developed shared project vision, goals and methods.
Find out more »February 2018
Colombia workshop 2018
Bringing together the country partners to assess Colombia's emerging research agenda and policy context, as well as capacity building on geo-spacial imagery and visualising data through multi-media outputs.
Find out more »December 2017
Myanmar workshops 2017
A series of initial workshops to design implementation plans, build a systematic data management strategy and to build capacity on translating research data into visual storytelling.
Find out more »November 2017
Afghanistan workshop 2017
Bringing together, for the first time, the two Afghan project partners to build a common vision and develop a work plan.
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