Date: 11-13 April 2025
Join a residential workshop on maximising development impact
This three-day residential workshop will focus on contemporary issues in development and provide skills training to support Scholars’ development impact work through a mixture of plenary sessions, discussions, and individual and group activities.
During the workshop, Scholars will:
- Improve skills and knowledge for development impact in their home country.
- Reflect on how to make their current studies and research more development relevant.
- Develop their presentation and teamwork skills.
- Improve their ability to connect and communicate with a wide range of audiences for development impact.
- Explore activities and resources that can be used during their scholarship in the UK and in their home country to support development impact.
- Design a plan of action for achieving development impact through their research and future career activities.
This workshop is for Commonwealth Scholars studying at Master’s level only.
The CSC’s Leaders in Sustainable Development programme of workshops focus on professional and practical skills and are designed to be interactive, with small groups of Scholars and Fellows taking part in each event.
Visit the delegate page to view the full programme and find out more about the residential weekend. Please note that this page is only available to Scholars who are confirmed to attend.
Dr Lemonge Nobert Nkapleweh
Dr Lemonge Nobert Nkapleweh is the Emergency Health and Nutrition Project Manager for IMC which is funded by USAID and based in the Northwest region. He oversees a team of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to provide urgent free healthcare and nutrition services to internally displaced people in the region and Nigerian refugees who have been forced to flee their country because of ongoing tribal tensions and the conflict between Boko Haram and government forces. He combines his medical background and Master’s training to implement health management and policy development in conflict and humanitarian zones.
Dr Nobert is a 2020 Scholar from Cameroon, MSc Tropical Medicine and International Health, LSHTM.
Neil Marshall
Neil Marshall is the Development Director of ChangeSchool. He specialises in innovation, education and entrepreneurship, and has run programmes in 30 different countries in those fields. Before co-founding ChangeSchool, he was a Management Consultant leading change in the Education Sector countrywide.
Programmes Neil has led include the £3m British Council Innovation for African Universities (IAU) programme, working with 400+ community members from 24 HEI partnerships and 86 organisations across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and the UK. Neil has been running an entrepreneurial university transformation programme in Malaysia, for which he was appointed as a visiting professor in entrepreneurship at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), and entrepreneurial capacity development programmes for the Creative Spark Enterprise Programme in Georgia, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Neil has coached many Russel Group UK university faculty members on delivering effectively using the ChangeSchool delivery pedagogy.
Neil is also a coach and mentor to leaders of high-growth companies (UK Government’s #HelpToGrow programme).
Neil holds an MBA from Cranfield University School of Management, a PGCE from Bristol University and a BA Hons from Birmingham University.
