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26.6.2025
Meldung
Decolonizing science: «It’s a journey, not a checklist»
How can we engage in science that is not only excellent, but also just? What does it mean to decolonize research and teaching in a discipline like geography, with its
Bild: Geographisches Institut Universität Zürich
Decolonizing Practices and Institutional Settings
On this website, we compile and analyze existing evidence, methodologies, and case-studies to identify strategies employed by research partners to decolonize North-South research collaborations. On this basis we offer recommendations
2025
Publikation
Interview Medinat Malefakis
In this episode, Joseph is joined for an interview with Dr Medinat Malefakis. She lectures on the Humanities, Social, and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on development
2024
Buch
Schweitzers Lambarene
Die erste kritische Geschichte des berühmtem Albert Schweitzer Spitals als Hilfsprojekt, das trotz seiner humanitären Ausrichtung in koloniale Haltungen verstrickt blieb.
2024
Artikel
Dekolonisierung der globalen Forschungszusammenarbeit
Eine dekolonisierte Zusammenarbeit zwischen Forschenden aus dem Globalen Süden und dem Globalen Norden wird von vielen gefordert. Die Kommission für Forschungspartnerschaften mit Entwicklungsländern (KFPE) hat sich intensiv mit dieser Thematik
Bild: Anna von Sury
2024
Positionspapier
Reflections on Decolonising Knowledge for Development: An invitation to an EADI conversation
The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)’s 50th anniversary creates a moment for reflection amidst what is increasingly viewed as a time of crisis in development and
2023
Positionspapier
Towards Structural Changes for Building Responsible Academic Partnerships
EADI Blog by Roseanna Avento, Kelly Brito and Susanne von Itter elaborating how funding, inclusive knowledge and spaces for discourses around needs and equity contribute to responsible academic partnerships.
2023
Buch
Challenging Global Development - Towards Decoloniality and Justice
This book presents contributions to decolonize Development Studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice. Recognising global poverty and
2023
Positionspapier
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable
Historical legacies of colonialism and inequity are still preventing us from realizing equitable and mutually beneficial partnerships. Despite increasing calls for more equitable Southern engagement in agenda-setting processes actual practice
2023
Wissenschaftliches Paper
Pack up the parachute: why global north–south collaborations need to change
Nature spoke to four global-south researchers who say that it’s time for their global-north colleagues to pack up the parachute and have frank discussions about how to conduct equitable collaborations.
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18.12.2023
Meldung
"Wie sinnvoll ist Entwicklungshilfe?"
Advents- und Weihnachtszeit ist Spendenzeit. Doch wie sinnvoll ist Entwicklungshilfe überhaupt? Das diskutieren in der neuen Folge des Podcasts «Laut + Leis» Elísio Macamo vom Zentrum für Afrikastudien der Uni
2023
Publikation
Are We Ready for Decolonisation?
In 2023, a powerful MMS Symposium entitled The Changing Role of CSOs in International Health Cooperation and Global Health took place in which the member organisations shared a mutual need
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19.6.2023
Meldung
Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not.
Interactive charts on Research and Development.
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2023
Publikation
Blog: Decolonisation in Visual Communication
When planning a communication campaign that relies on photographs and moving images it is important to be aware of stereotyping and possible colonial influences in our visual communications. In this
Bild: DRC 2023: Justin Makangara / Action de Carême/ Fairpicture
29.6.2023
Meldung
Ein neuer Blick auf die koloniale Vergangenheit der Schweiz
SRF Kultur-Talk: Historiker Georg Kreis hat zusammengetragen, wie vielfältig Schweizerinnen und Schweizer am Kolonialismus beteiligt waren. Im Kultur-Talk spricht er über die koloniale Vergangenheit und ihre Konsequenzen auf die Gegenwart.
2023
Artikel
«Ansätze zur Dekolonisierung der Forschungszusammenarbeit zwischen Nord und Süd»
5.5.2023 – Die aktuellen globalen Herausforderungen erfordern eine weltweite Kooperation. Die kolonialen Praktiken der Forschungszusammenarbeit zwischen Nord und Süd, die zu Abhängigkeit und Unsichtbarmachung führen, schmälern jedoch die Chancen, Lösungen
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2023
Publikation
Localisation - can you still contribute as a professional from the Global North?
In international development, the process of handing over more decision-making power and resources to local actors is called localisation. At Forum cinfo 22, Shazia Islamshah and Pascal Bijleveld, as humanitarian
8.6.2023
Meldung
Open Science as a Means to Decolonize Scientific Publishing and Foster Fairer Research Collaborations
Scientific publishing is a cornerstone of research. However, current publishing systems are highly inequitable. In an interactive virtual workshop, speakers and participants jointly identified challenges and explored ways of decolonizing
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2023
Publikation
IGS North-South Tracer Study 2022: Decolonizing a PhD Programme and Beyond
The IGS North-South Tracer Study critically examines the IGS North-South and reflects on decolonizing the academia.
Bild: Unsplash.com, Vojetech Bruzek
2023
Positionspapier
How ethical can research relationships be in Development Studies?
Contribution in an EADI BLOG on Development Research
Bild: P. L. Tandon
2023
Publikation
«Diversity ist der Schlüssel, um die Forschung zu dekolonialisieren»
Ob Klima- und Biodiversitätskrise, ob Nutzungskonflikte um die Ressourcen: Die heutigen Krisen sind global. Der Forschungszusammenarbeit Nord-Süd kommt hier eine wichtige Rolle zu, zumal sie Wissen für Strategien und Politiken
19.12.2022
Meldung
Decolonizing Swiss-African Research Collaborations
How to decolonize Swiss-Africa research collaborations? Anja Soldat summarizes the discussion at the Swiss Researching Africa Days on decolonizing Swiss-African Research Collaborations in the latest SSAS newsletter.
2022
Bericht
Wenn die Forschung koloniale Züge annimmt
Im Rahmen der Nord-Süd-Forschungszusammenarbeit werden die Länder des Südens mehrheitlich mit Forschungsgeldern und -konzepten aus dem Norden erforscht. Die Dekolonisation erfordert eine Korrektur der unausgewogenen Machtverhältnisse.
2022
Publikation
Decolonial and feminist approaches in academic partnerships
UniPID Podcast: How can feminist and decolonial approaches help deconstruct the power dynamics and pre-established assumptions in global academic partnerships? Get to know more with Violeta Gutierrez Zamora, early stage
2022
Faktenblatt
Decolonising academic collaboration - South-North perspectives
Decolonisation was originally intended as a revolutionary concept and approach, but contemporary debates, including in the global North, have arguably mainstreamed the concept of decolonisation. Indeed, one might ask whether
2022
Publikation
Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements? Development Understandings from the Global South
EADi Blog by Alba Castellsagué and Sally Matthews
25.8.2022
Meldung
Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen aus der Kolonialzeit
Wie viel Kolonialismus gibt es in Schweizer Museen? Viel – das zeigt die Aufarbeitung im Bernischen Historischen Museum. Beitrag im 10vor10 vom 25.08.2022.
2021
Wissenschaftliches Paper
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic
Over the past decade, there has been increased awareness and discourse around the inequalities which structure North–South academic collaboration. The purpose of this discussion is to look at the other
2021
Artikel
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology
Christopher H. Trisos, Jess Auerbach & Madhusudan Katti
24.8.2021
Meldung
Masakhane MT: Decolonise Science
Many words common to science have never been written in African languages. Now, researchers from across Africa are changing that.
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2021
Bericht
Research colonialism still plagues Africa
African researchers are suffering from power dynamics that favour global North collaborators. While some initiatives are helping build local capacity, others undervalue African collaborators. COVID-19 is aiding the creation of
Bild: Copyright: Je'nine May
2021
Bericht
Risk dumping in field research: some researchers are safer than others
EADI BLOG by Linda Johnson and Rodrigo Mena
Bild: Charl Folscher on Unsplash
2020
Wissenschaftliches Paper
Do no harm? Field research in the Global South: Ethical challenges faced by research staff
The rise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to rigorously evaluate development policy is characterized by a wide range of ethical complexities. While the literature has identified ethical challenges pertaining to

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Decolonising Global Development Research Podcast Series

EADI: Decolonising Knowledge for Development

Decolonizing science: «It’s a journey, not a checklist»

Decolonizing Practices and Institutional Settings

Interview Medinat Malefakis

Schweitzers Lambarene

Dekolonisierung der globalen Forschungszusammenarbeit

Reflections on Decolonising Knowledge for Development: An invitation to an EADI conversation

Towards Structural Changes for Building Responsible Academic Partnerships

Challenging Global Development - Towards Decoloniality and Justice

Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable

Pack up the parachute: why global north–south collaborations need to change

"Wie sinnvoll ist Entwicklungshilfe?"

Are We Ready for Decolonisation?

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not.

Blog: Decolonisation in Visual Communication

Ein neuer Blick auf die koloniale Vergangenheit der Schweiz

«Ansätze zur Dekolonisierung der Forschungs­zusammen­arbeit zwischen Nord und Süd»

Localisation - can you still contribute as a professional from the Global North?

Open Science as a Means to Decolonize Scientific Publishing and Foster Fairer Research Collaborations

IGS North-South Tracer Study 2022: Decolonizing a PhD Programme and Beyond

How ethical can research relationships be in Development Studies?

«Diversity ist der Schlüssel, um die Forschung zu dekolonialisieren»

Decolonizing Swiss-African Research Collaborations

Wenn die Forschung koloniale Züge annimmt

Decolonial and feminist approaches in academic partnerships

Decolonising academic collaboration - South-North perspectives

Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements? Development Understandings from the Global South

Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen aus der Kolonialzeit

“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic

Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology

Masakhane MT: Decolonise Science

Research colonialism still plagues Africa

Risk dumping in field research: some researchers are safer than others

Do no harm? Field research in the Global South: Ethical challenges faced by research staff

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