Researcher in Development Geography
I thoroughly enjoyed chairing the engaging session on resilience, knowledge, and identities in the Pacific at the Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Studies (DevNet) conference. We concluded with reflections on the terminologies and identities a new generation of scholars seeks to embrace in guiding the future of Pacific development studies.
📣 Come and join us at the International Geographical Union Egypt 2025 Thematic Conference!
Our IGU Commission ‘Geographical Marginality’ (C.32) is organizing a session on “Perspectives on Globalization and Marginality in Emerging Economies”.
Topics of the session are:
1. Inequality as a consequence of globalization
2. Health issues and vulnerability in marginal regions
3. Educational challenges of marginal societies
4. Informal settlements and lack of infrastructure in a globalized society
5. Perceptions of nature in rural and urban marginal societies
6. Discrimination of women and its cultural background
7. Marginalization in border areas
Submit your abstract by 15 January 2025 here.
Hot off the press: Our book chapter on the perceived quality of higher education in Oceania, drawing on a critical literature review and on our autoethnographic experiences at the regional University of the South Pacific. Access link: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap/book/9781529226522/ch004.xml?tab_body=abstract
My new publication on aid to remote outer islands is available open access:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dpr.12759
Poverty is currently being widely debated in Fiji. Here a research-based viewpoint in the Fiji Times.
In Fiji, income poverty and consumption poverty have been widely debated. Poverty research shows that there is a need to shift to a broader understanding of poverty as a multidimensional, beyond economic poverty. Furthermore, there is a need to consider relative poverty and inequalities in the wider Pacific Islands region.
Read more in my EADI blog: http://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=1244.
"Definitions of concepts such as ‘poverty’ and ‘inequality’ may seem an ivory tower exercise. Yet, the way in which poverty is defined matters in the real world."https://t.co/0hZ4flsMVK
— EADI (@EADI) June 21, 2022
DevNet 2020 Conference Awards: Kim Kessler was awarded best PhD presentation.
More DevNet highlights. Congratulations to Kim Kessler on being awarded best PhD presentation. And our staff members were also in full flight conveying their research findings at the conference. #DevNet2020 #phdlife #developmentresearch #geography pic.twitter.com/ZwE0hoGqcG
— Otago Uni Geography (@GeographyOtago) December 4, 2020
The Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Studies Network (DevNet) 2020 Conference is on at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Geography #PhD candidates Sargam Gounder and Kim Kessler presented at the #DevNet #Conference in Palmerston North today. Good to see several of our PhD students presenting at a variety of conferences over the last month. #DevNet2020 pic.twitter.com/bef8tWya67
— Otago Uni Geography (@GeographyOtago) December 2, 2020
“Pacific Island countries and territories are internationally portrayed as particularly vulnerable to Covid-19. However, in times of crisis, it is important not to forget their strengths, write Sargam Goundar and Kim Andreas Kessler.” (Otago Daily Times, 7 April 2020)
Read the full article in the Otago Daily Times here.
This is a joint research symposium between the Polar Environments Research Theme and the Otago Climate Change Network, which will bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to share and discuss current research. We will have two sessions, one on polar research, and another on research related to climate change, open to all divisions and disciplines. There will also be a poster session. (Source: https://events.humanitix.co.nz)
There will be a session on ‘Climate Change in the Pacific’.
Date: 15 October 2019, 8.30am – 5pm
Location: Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Registration here.
