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Research programme

Development and Humanitarian Communication

Research on how development actors, governments, NGOs and communities communicate crises, policy issues, health, aid and social change.

Programme focus

Analyses how governments, NGOs, donors and communities communicate development, crisis, health and aid.

Research questions

  • How can development communication avoid extractive storytelling?
  • What happens when aid becomes a reputational battleground?
  • How do communities contest or reshape institutional narratives?

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