Research for futures shaped from here.
Research, essays and a podcast on development, power and policy. Voices from the Caribbean, the Pacific and the wider Global South.
Research
Questions we are exploring.
GENERATIVE DEVELOPMENT
What makes development possible?
Exploring approaches that grow from historical and institutional realities.
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INSTITUTIONS & GOVERNANCE
How does change take hold?
Looking at the structures, incentives and relationships behind policy outcomes.
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KNOWLEDGE, METHOD & POWER
Who gets to explain the world?
Examining whose knowledge shapes our problems, evidence and imagined futures.
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Latest Essays
Essays and commentary exploring the historical and political currents shaping development, governance, knowledge and power.
Development
When a Decade Is “Lost”: A Reflection on the World Bank’s 2026 Outlook
This week, I was conducting research for a paper when I pulled up the World Bank’s June 2026 Global Economic Prospects report. I was flabbergasted, to say the least, by the breathtaking candour of the…
Dr Dinah Hippolyte
31 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
Knowledge, Method and Power
In the Age of AI Self Authorship Requires Refusal
My PhD focused on how people construct understandings and knowledges for themselves, and how these understandings shape policy. My central aim was to deconstruct an approach in international relations…
Dr Dinah Hippolyte
15 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
Knowledge, Method and Power
The Right to Be Devastatingly Disappointing: A Reflection on Professor Jason Arday
Over the past few months, the story of Professor Jason Arday has captured our attention, culminating in the tragedy of his untimely death at 41. The response from various sectors of the Black communit…
Dr Dinah Hippolyte
26 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
The Podcast
Where We Stand: A View From Elsewhere
From global summits to developments in our own islands and regions, events are usually explained from the centre. We look at them from elsewhere: from the Caribbean, the Pacific and the wider Global South, because where we stand shapes what we see, what we know and what we imagine is possible. Hosted by Dr Dinah Hippolyte.
EP. 2 — Now streaming