STEPS Seminars
Material from the STEPS Centre seminar series
To make our seminars as accessible as possible, we post reports, speaker presentations, podcasts, video, blogs and photos.
9 May 2008 - J. V. Meenakshi
J. V. Meenakshi, Impact and Policy Coordinator for Harvest Plus gave a STEPS Seminar on: Using Choice Experiments to Assess the Potential Success of Biofortification in Ameliorating Micronutrient Malnutrition: some evidence from Sub Saharan Africa
Read J.V. Meenakshi's presentation (pdf 1.17mb)
Photos (link to Flickr)
6 May 2008 - Wenzel Geissler
Wenzel Geissler, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gave a STEPS Seminar on 6 May 2008 entitles: Second enclosure: the changing spaces of medical research in 21st Century Kenya.
Photos (link to Flickr)
6 February 2008 - Geoff Oldham
Geoff Oldham, former SPRU director, former chairman of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development, and for five years a UK Delegate to the UN Commission on IDS/SPRU collaboration in the Early Days: ‘The Sussex Manifesto and its Aftermath’.
Go to the STEPS Sussex Manifesto Page
Read Geoff Oldham's presentation (pdf 44kb)
The 1970 Sussex Manifesto: Science and Technology to Developing Countries during the Second Development Decade (pdf 1.5mb)
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Go to the Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto page
24 January 2008 - Helena Paul & Les Levidow
Helena Paul, Econexus, and Les Levidow, Open University, on global biofuel crops; integrating an agri-energy industry, driving dispossession.
Read Helena Paul and Les Levidow's presentation (pdf 68kb)
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Photos (link to Flickr)
9 January 2008 - Andrew Jamison
Andrew Jamison, Professor of technology, environment and society at Aalborg University, Sweden, on the quest for green knowledge.
Read Andrew Jamison's presentation (pdf 619kb)
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27 November 2007 - Bill Adams
Bill Adams, Dept of Geography at the University of Cambridge, on the political ecology of biodiversity conservation
Read Bill Adam's presentation (pdf 173kb)
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29 October 2007 - Polly Ericksen
Will managing food systems for resilience maker us more food secure? Polly Ericksen, Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University
Read Polly Ericksen's presentation (pdf 405kb)
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19 January 2007 - Arild Vatn
'An Institutional Perspective on the Valuation of Biodiversity' Arild Vatn, Department of Economics and Resource Management, Agricultural University of Norway.
Read Arild Vatn's paper and listen to audio clips
12 January 2007 - Sheila Jasanoff
'Civic Epistemology as a Research Tool: The Uses of Theory' - Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies.
Listen to audio clips of Sheila Jasnoff's seminar, read the report and join the debate on the blog
5 January 2007 - Norman Uphoff
'After the Green Revolution: Challenges for Agricultural Technology Development' - Professor Norman Uphoff, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University.
Read Norman Uphoff's presentation, read the report and listen to audio clips from his seminar and join the debate on the blog.
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