Humans of ID: Recent Episodes
LSE Department of International Development
Inspired by the “Humans of…” concept of sharing stories originated by photoblogger Brandon Stanton in New York , Humans of ID is a podcast where students in LSE Department of International Development Nune Harutyunyan, Sheren Hong and Emily Campbell-Harry sit down with classmates, instructors, and alumni to learn about their stories.
In these informal discussions, the team ask questions about how their guests became involved in this field and discuss some of the most pressing contemporary issues in international development. A new Humans of ID podcast is published every Tuesday.
In this episode Angeliki and Ziyaad explore how to make development a topic that is accessible for all. This draws on an article by PHD student Pauline Jerrentup entitled “‘Who knows what? The pitfalls of academic jargon’”. The link is as follows: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationaldevelopment/2023/03/14/who-knows-what-the-pitfalls-of-academic-jargon/
Join us as we say hello in different languages, discuss how academic language can seem like hieroglyphics and mention how to get help.
Let’s make development a field that everyone can feel at home in!
Angeliki: LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook
Ziyaad: LinkedIn
The Humans of ID Podcast is back for 2023 with a brand new series! In this first episode of season two, MSc students Alice, Angeliki, Joe, and Ziyaad speak about the four different master's programmes currently offered by the Department of International Development: Development Management (DM), Development Studies (DS), Health and International Development (HID) and International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies (IDHE). They also discuss what development means to them and why they chose LSE as their destination for graduate study. They invite you to get to know them and be part of their discussion!
If you want to get in touch with them, feel free do do so:
Alice: LinkedIn | Facebook
Angeliki: LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter
Joe: LinkedIn | Facebook
Ziyaad: LinkedIn
After an exam-induced break over the summer, the Humans of ID podcast is back! In this episode, host Nune Harutyunyan chats to fellow MSc student in Development Management, Becky Asselin. Becky speaks about the social enterprise she founded and runs, Everoot, which helps businesses get B-Corp certified, a recognition of performance, accountability, and transparency on factors including employee benefits, charitable giving and supply chains. Becky chats about how her MSc study has influenced her approach to her business, and vice-versa, her plans to focus more on emerging markets and the role the private sector has to play in development.
Everoot's website: https://www.everootconsulting.com/
More information about B Corp certification: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/certification
In this week’s episode, Nune chats with her fellow development management coursemate, Maria Jose Lopez Signiorelli about her change of career path from a research assistant/sociologist to an international development student.
Maria shares how her experience in academia can potentially enhance her pursuit of a career in development management and speaks about some of the new skills or knowledge she has learned from her MSc. Coming from Chile, Maria also tells us about her hometown and her career plans after graduating from the LSE.
This week’s host Emily Campbell Harry is joined by Radh Siddiquee and Carolina Delgado Fernández who are students at the MSc in Health and International Development programme. They speak about their previous studies in the field of medicine, how making a switch from being a practicing doctor to policy making has shaped their perspectives in this field and where they imagine the combination of this degree and their former experiences could take them in the future.
To mark International Women’s Day 2022, Sheren chats with MSc Students Shanyce Morris and Marta Perich about the issue of gender inequality. The guests share their experiences of daily gender bias as well as explore the topic of gender violence in a conflict setting. Reflecting this year’s International Women’s Day theme of #BreakTheBias, the episode concludes with hopes of eliminating future gender inequalities.
In the this week’s episode, Nuné chats with MSc students Henrique Góes and Luis Guitérrez Rojas about development in their home countries of Brazil and Colombia. Both guests discuss their interests in public policy and previous career experience in the sector. They explore how studying at the LSE has offered an opportunity to engage with different areas within the field of development.
In the first episode, we meet the team (MSc students in the Department Emily, Nune and Sheren) who speak about life at LSE and in London more generally, what brought them to the UK and what led them to study international development.