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.
You can read and download presentations given at STEPS Centre seminars on our Slideshare site.
For details of upcoming seminars and other STEPS events, see our events page.
16 June 2009 - Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath,
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar
Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath of the United Nations University gave a seminar entitled 'Promoting Knowledge Generation through Intellectual property in Late Development'
Listen to the podcast
Photos from the seminar (Flickr)
5 March 2009 - Jo Chattaway
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar
Joanna Chataway, Co-Director of the ESRC Innogen Research Centre, Development Policy and Practice, Open University gave a seminar entitled ‘Below the Radar’: A user and market driven account of disruptive (and constructive) innovation for low income users.
View Joanna Chataway's presentation (on Slideshare)
Photos from the seminar (Flickr)
Listen to the podcast
16 January 2009 - Andrew Barnett
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar
Dr Andrew Barnett, Director, Policy Practice Ltd gave a seminar entitled 'Innovation - re-labelling research or a shift in paradigm: the current debate in agricultural research for development'.
View Andrew Barnett's presentation (on Slideshare)
Listen to the podcast
Photos from the seminar (Flickr)
31 October 2008 - Fabian Scholtes
Fabian Scholtes, Centre for Development Research, Bonn gives a STEPS Centre seminar entitled Moral values and Solar Panels: moral knowledge in technology-based development
Fabian Scholtes' presentation (on Slideshare)
30 October 2008 - Fred Steward
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar
Fred Steward, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Brunel University on Transformative Innovation for the Global Good:
A shared challenge-oriented mission for the 21st Century
Read Fred Steward's presentation (on Slideshare)
Listen to the podcast
Photos from the seminar (Flickr)
15 September 2008 - Francis X. Johnson
Francis X. Johnson, Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute on Biofuels, Climate and Development: Emerging Issues and Challenges.
Read Francis Johnson's presentation (on Slideshare)
Read the blog
Listen to the podcast
Photos (Flickr)
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 (on Slideshare)
Photos (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 from the seminar (Flickr)
6 February 2008 - Geoff Oldham
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar
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 (on Slideshare)
The 1970 Sussex Manifesto (pdf, 1.5MB): Science and Technology to Developing Countries during the Second Development Decade
Our blog about the event
Extract: Geoff Oldham's talk (YouTube)
Full-length video (blip.tv)
Listen to the podcast
Photos of the event (Flickr)
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
24 January 2008 - Helena Paul & Les Levidow
Helena Paul, Econexus, and Les Levidow, Open University, on global biofuel crops; integrating an agri-energy industry, and driving dispossession.
Read Helena Paul and Les Levidow's presentation (on Slideshare)
Read the blog
Listen to the podcast
Photos (on 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 (on Slideshare)
Read the blog
Listen to the podcast
Photos (on Flickr)
27 November 2007 - Bill Adams
Bill Adams, Dept of Geography at the University of Cambridge, on the political ecology of biodiversity conservation.
Bill Adam's presentation (on Slideshare)
Read the blog
Listen to the podcast
Photos (on Flickr)
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.
Polly Ericksen's presentation (Slideshare)
Blog post about the event
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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