CROP and ASAP join forces on the GPCR project
We are happy to announce that ASAP and the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) have agreed to launch a collaborative effort to jointly execute the GPCR project over the next…
Student Q&ASAP with Sophia Ireland of Oxfam Great Britain
Ravina Khela, the incoming Chair of the ASAP Students-Birmingham Chapter speaks to Sophia Ireland about her role as Midlands Youth & Schools Co-ordinator, Oxfam. Ireland shares insights on Oxfam’s approach to poverty alleviation, and she offers some tips for students who may want to apply for an Oxfam internship or pursue a career in development more generally.
ASAP Students Gain Powerful Insight from Poverty-Line Challenge
Undergraduate student leaders from the Birmingham UK ASAP chapter gained invaluable insight into the lives of the global poor in taking the poverty-line challenge. They pledged to spend no more than £1 per day on food for five consecutive days. That limit is approximately equivalent to the World Bank’s global poverty line, or the level below which a person is said to be living in extreme poverty.
Enhancing Impact: Tips for Working With the Media
Benjamin Hill / Public Relations Manager, University of Birmingham /
Interacting with the media (in whatever form) allows your research to reach thousands or even millions of people, through TV, press, blogs and social media. Although there remains residual reluctance amongst some academics to undertake this kind of activity it offers unique opportunities to raise the profile of work to funding bodies, create public awareness of an issue or to communicate research to other specialists through trade and academic press.
Academics Stand Against Poverty: The Story So Far
Keith Horton / ASAP Board Member Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Wollongong / khorton@uow.edu.au / I floated the original ASAP proposal in 2009 and, in partnership with Meena Krishnamurthy, made the first efforts at enlisting other academics. My background is in moral philosophy, and I had become convinced that people and governments in rich countries (the ‘global rich’) are morally required to do much more than they are currently doing to tackle severe poverty in poor countries.
Backgrounder: Successors to the MDGs
A Summary Report by Knut-Eric Joslin The next two years will be a formative period for potential successors to the Millennium Development Goals, and a significant policy dialogue has already…
Student Q and ASAP with Islamic Relief
by Sofia Zolghadriha /
As part of our student journey of understanding poverty and how attempts at alleviating it are made on local and global levels, it is useful to understand how a non-governmental organization that is both locally and globally entrenched views the issues. Islamic Relief provides us not only with the mainstream NGO development strategy, but it also incorporates some faith-based values.
The organization was founded in the UK in 1984, with its head office in Birmingham, England. It works in over 30 countries around the world and its mission is to contribute in the efforts to alleviate poverty and bring an end to the sufferings of the world poorest.
World-Leading Academics Join ASAP Advisory Board
Some of the world\’s most prominent economists, development studies specialists and philosophers have joined the ASAP Advisory Board. The board will offer advice on ASAP collaboration efforts, as well as…
Prof. Thomas Pogge: Global Health
Professor Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosopy and International Affairs at Yale, is a political philosopher who has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including books…
Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel, \’More Than Good Intentions\’
In their new book More Than Good Intentions, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel explore the power of experimental design to reveal more effective ways to address aspects of global poverty.