Welcome to Development Studies Association
The Development Studies Association is the UK's learned society and professional body for academic teaching and research, policy and practice in the field of international development.
While the annual conference is a principal focus for the association, the DSA is active throughout the year through its many Study Groups. All those involved in development whether as teachers, researchers, consultants or practitioners, are welcome to join both the Study Groups and the DSA itself.
DSA news
DSA2019: 'Opening Up Development'
Open University, Milton Keynes
19-21 June 2019
Call for panels is now closed.
The 2019 conference will take place at The Open University in Milton Keynes on the theme of 'Opening Up Development'. The call for panels is now closed. The call for papers will open in early December. Keep an eye on the conference website for further details.
DSA-ESRC ‘Meeting the Challenges’ workshop series
Our interdisciplinary workshop series has got off to an excellent start, with an event at IDS, Sussex exploring Zoonoses and One Health; and one at Reading University on research ethics in conflict and post-conflict contexts. The next two workshops are at UEA in January 2019 and Bristol University in March 2019. The series brings together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from the Global North and the Global South to explore how best to respond to the global challenges. Find out more at the webpage. Video and reports from the first two workshops coming soon.
DSA Dissertation Prize call
The DSA awards an annual prize to students working in the fields of international development, development studies, and development economics. All Development Studies and Economics departments in the UK are invited to submit one MA or MSc dissertation. The deadline for submissions is 14 December 2018. Please find all the details here.
DSA seeks new series editor for DSA-OUP book series
The DSA is seeking to recruit a new series editor for its book series in collaboration with OUP. Please read the full advertisement here where you will also find out how to apply. The application form can be downloaded here. You can find out more about the book series here.
Parliament UK news
CALL FOR EVIDENCE: How should the UK cooperate with the EU on international development post-Brexit? The House of Lords EU External Affairs Sub-Committee has launched an inquiry to explore the impact of Brexit on UK and EU aid, the thematic and geographic areas in which the UK and the EU might work together, and how this could work in practice. Anybody with a relevant interest is invited to submit by 10 December 2018. The Sub-Committee will also hold public hearings with evidence from a range of development experts. Its report, with recommendations, will receive a response from Government and be debated in the House.
Commons Foreign Affairs Committee
Committee launch inquiry on Global Britain and South
America
DSA Student membership deal!
Students - join the DSA for £10 by 31 January 2019 and your membership will be valid until 31 January 2020. So sign up now to make the most of a potential 14-15 month subscription for the price of 12 months. Join here!
DSA2018: Global inequalities - digest
Delegate feedback results online
AGM Minutes & Presidential report online
Global South Delegates meeting minutes online
Plenary videos now online (GDI website)
Certificate of attendance or a payment receipt, these can be downloaded from the conference website by using the login link at the top of the page. Proceed past your personal details and look for the ‘C’ icon beside your registration to download a PDF certificate.
Publishing session podcast
This year we held a session on how to get published and advice around
publishing. You can hear some of the 2017 session here. The 2018 session will be posted online
soon.
REF2021 panel membership appointments announced
Sub-panel 22: Anthropology & Development Studies
Chair
Professor Deborah James - London School of Economics and Political
Science
Members
Professor Jo Beall - British Council
Professor Barry Bogin - Loughborough University
Dr Peter Evans - Department for International Development
Professor Ravi Kanbur - Cornell Dyson School
Professor Uma Kothari - University of Manchester
Professor Tobias Kelly* - University of Edinburgh
Professor Susanne Kuechler - University College London
Professor David Wield - The Open University
Secretariat
Dr Andrew Taylor - University of Hull
See the full announcement at the REF website
Joe Devine has been invited on to the assessment panel for the REF subpanel Social Work and Social Policy
DSA-OUP book series second & third titles are now
available
Playing with Fire: Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South by Yilmaz Akyüz ISBN 9780198797173 2017
Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis by Matteo Rizzo ISBN 9780198794240 2017
IN: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in
International Development Studies
Study group news
Links to future SG events can be seen in the side bar on the right (or beneath on narrower screens). Other news follows.
DSA Gender & Development Study Group
Call for Contributions: Feminist Values in Research
The November 2019 issue of the journal Gender and Development will focus on Feminist Values in Research. See our Call for Contributions here! Research needs to be rooted in the experience, needs, and interests of the whole of humanity. But down the centuries, educated elites have shaped and dominated research and defined knowledge and learning. Increasingly, international development is acknowledging the gender, race and class bias in research, and the human cost of this.
Feminists in development are exploring and learning from the stories, experiences and priorities of women and LGBTQI+ people, doing research that seeks to end the power imbalances between the researchers and the researched. They’re also doing feminist research with men. This issue explores how feminist values and voices can be embodied and embedded in research in ways that promote social justice and support the realisation of sustainable human development. Feminist researchers are trialling new approaches and sharing knowledge in in policy and practice research as well as academic institutions.
Interested in contributing to the issue? For more information read the full Call. Closing date for ideas is 15 December 2018 – email them to the Editor, Caroline Sweetman, at csweetman(at)oxfam.org.uk. Joining Caroline as Guest Editors for this issue are Lata Narayanaswamy, University of Leeds, and Katy Jenkins, University of Northumbria.
DSA Business and Development Study Group
Winter 2018 Workshop
Wednesday 12th December, 2018 10:00 – 16:30
University of Bath, London facility, 83 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5ES
Partnerships in Practice: Issues of inequality and power – has
anything changed?
Call for presentations/papers for the workshop is now CLOSED.
DSA Urbanisation and Development Study Group
Workshop report
On October 1st, the UCL Development Planning Unit and the
project Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) hosted a
workshop about “Translocal Pedagogies in Planning Education for Urban
Equality” in collaboration with the DSA Urbanisation and Development
Group. The event brought together 25 participants from academia and
practice in the fields of urban planning and higher education in the
UK and overseas. It facilitated discussions about the potential and
current shortfalls of urban planning education to stimulate learning
across localities. You can find more information about the workshop here.
DSA Scotland Study Group
DSA Scotland had a very successful one-day mini-conference on 1st June, supported and hosted by the Centre for Development Studies/Adam Smith Business School in the University of Glasgow. A report has already been made available to the DSA Scotland distribution list and to DSA members.
We are now looking for a meeting in around June 2019 (the same time of year as in 2018), and would welcome suggestions concerning locations and subject matter. The format would probably be 'as usual' - i.e. presentations by established researchers, presentations by research students, a keynote address - and maybe another panel discussion. Offers to Mozammel Huq (m.m.huq(at)strath.ac.uk) or Mike Tribe (michael.tribe(at)strath.ac.uk)
The materials from the 1st June DSA Scotland meeting are now available online.
DSA Africa Study Group - mailing list now active
The DSA has a brand new study group – DSA Africa – which aims to connect researchers from and within Africa working in various fields of development. You can view the new DSA Africa SG webpage and join the study group mailing list from that page.
DSA NGOs in Development Study Group
The Convenor of NGOs in development study group, Dr Ibrahim Natil was awarded the Robert Chambers Award Best Overall Paper at last year's Conference by Development Studies Association, Ireland. Dr. Natil wrote about International NGOs': women's engagement in peace building and development.
Premium Member news
Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate Juan Manuel Santos has been appointed Visiting Professor in Development at ODID for three years. President Santos will conduct independent work on poverty reduction and peace building with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
Professor Alexander Betts gave evidence to the House of Commons International Development Committee this month as part of their inquiry into forced displacement in Africa. Read his recommendations.
Pierre Krähenbühl, UNRWA Commissioner-General, gave the Annual Harrell-Bond lecture on 18 October: ‘In a troubled and polarized Middle-East: challenges for Palestine refugees and UNRWA’. Listen to the podcast.
Professor Xiaolan Fu gave a presentation about changing conceptual frameworks for measuring global trade at the 10th World Investment Forum in Geneva for the UNCTAD Academic Network on Investment.
Associate Professor Simukai Chigudu spoke at the closing plenary session of the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, the largest meeting of scholars, practitioners and policy makers working in health systems research and policy. Watch the session.
Young Lives have produced a new infographic outlining some of the key findings on health and nutrition from their longitudinal study of childhood poverty, including the finding that growth recovery from early life stunting is possible.
Forced Migration Review 59 was published this month. It explores ‘Twenty Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement’. Find out more.
The Global Development Institute has documented 60 years of recent history at The University of Manchester. Many members of the DSA have played a part in this. The history was written by Dr Janek Gryta.
A new book edited by Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredrikson, Phil Woodhouse, and Sian Sullivan challenges the dominance of economics as the measure of all value.
GDI alumni shine in international roles with Juan Villa taking on the position of President of Colombia's public pension and social security administrator, and Bala Yusuf Yunusa has been appointed Technical Advisor to the Nigerian Presidency on Sustainable Development Goals.
In the news
Seth Schindler: US sparks new development arms race with China – but can it win?
David Hulme is quoted in From aid to Global Public Investment: an evolution in international co-operation and How Brexit is already hurting some of the poorest people in the world as well as UK aid projects have been 'scaled back' since the Brexit referendum – all talking about how Brexit could challenge international development.
Nicola Banks speaks about the Indonesian government’s response to foreign aid post-Tsunami, 38:30 into this BBC radio programme.
Antonio Savoia on the OECD blog looks at why some countries reduce poverty faster than others?
Chris Foster was interviewed on The Role of Small and Medium Tourism Businesses in digital Value Chains.
Laura Hammond contributed the lead
essay on
Forced Migration and Hunger
to the 2018 Global Hunger Index, which was released on World Food
Day, 16 October.
Paolo Novak will deliver two presentations related to his ongoing research project concerned with Asylum seekers' reception in Italy :
- Asylum, History and Histories in Central Italy at the
Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS 8-11 November 2018
- Food and refugee research at the Food Studies Centre,
SOAS 14th December 2018
His chapter Borders, Distance, Politics appears in the collection Borderless Worlds for Whom? Ethics Moralities and Mobilities edited by Anssi Paasi, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Jarkko Saarinen, Kaj Zimmerbauer. Paolo also delivered the presentation Neoliberalism, Asylum and the Gattopardo at the Europe after Brexit Conference, SOAS University of London / Department of Economics and School of Law, King’s College London / Department of European and International Studies, 21-22 September 2018.
Guy Standing's invited Tellus essay The Precariat: Today’s Transformative Class? published by Great Transition Initiative sparked debate between academics around the world about the transformative potential of the precariat.
Carlos Oya's systematic review of agricultural certification has been published in World Development and shared through social media. Carlos was interviewed by Alice Evans on the Four Questions podcast about the article. The World Development article derives from the long version of the technical report which was published by Campbell Collaboration library (main repository of rigorous systematic reviews). See social media reactions here and here.
Professor Tim Forsyth appointed Specialist Adviser to the Houses of Parliament
Professor of Environment and Development, Tim Forsyth, has been appointed as Specialist Adviser to the Houses of Parliament International Development Committee (IDC), with special reference to climate change and aid. His work will involve advising on how UKAid can assist with climate change in the future.
The IDC monitors the policy, administration and spending of the Department for International Development (DFID) and its associated public bodies and takes an interest in the policies and procedures of the multilateral agencies and non-government organisations to which DFID contributes.
Find out more about the IDC here.
Roundtable on contracting of basic public services to NGOs in China
Professor Jude Howell hosted a roundtable on the Contracting of Basic Public Services to NGOs in China in October 2018 on behalf of a joint National Development Reform Commission (China) and UNICEF programme on the Innovative Delivery of Public Services. Key speakers included Dr Regina Enjuto-Martinez (LSE) on experiences from the disability sector in the UK and its relevance to China, Dr Andy West on experiences from children’s services in the UK and their relevance to China, and Michael Birtwistle (National Council of Voluntary Organisations, UK) on the lessons from contracting government services to NGOs in the UK. Both Dr Enjuto-Martinez and Dr West were contributors to an edited volume by Wang Puqu and Jude Howell on the UK and China experiences of government procurement of public services from NGOs.
Find out more about the funded project here.
Professor Naila Kabeer on overcoming inequalities
Professor in Gender Studies, Naila Kabeer spoke at the Opening Event for the UNRISD Conference Overcoming Inequalities in a Fractured World: Between Elite Power and Social Mobilisation on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 November. Speakers also included Saskia Sassen from Columbia University and Jomo Kwame Sundaram from the Council of Eminent Persons, Malaysia.
Professor Kabeer will also be speaking at the Fletcher School's Conference on Gender and International Affairs: Gender, justice and politics: movement from the margins on Friday 16 to Saturday 17 November at Tufts University.
Find out more about the UNRISD conference here.
Professor Jean-Paul Faguet on better spending for better lives
Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Jean-Paul Faguet spoke at a recent panel discussion hosted by the LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The panel discussed the IDB’s flagship Development in the Americas report, Better Spending for Better Lives.
Find out more about the event here.
Professor Kathy Hochstetler on Bolsonaro and the Amazon
Professor of International Development, Kathy Hochstetler, wrote an article for the Foreign Policy blog in which she states that Bolsonaro could get the support he needs to pass his environmental proposals through the legislature.
DPU undertakes research comparing refugee resettlement schemes in the UK
In partnership with Citizens UK and under the supervision of Dr Andrea Rigon, MSc Social Development Practice students, Mahdi Alraie and Hannah Collins have analysed the new model of community sponsorship for the resettlement of refugees.
The DPU remembers Jockin Arputham
The DPU are saddened to hear the news that SDI president Jockin Arputham passed away over the weekend.
DPU welcomes applications for DPU/ACHR/CAN Fellowship – Wave V
We are pleased to begin welcoming applications for the fifth wave of our DPU/ACHR/CAN Fellowship which will take place in either Myanmar or Sri Lanka. Application deadline November 5th.
DPU doctoral student awarded Doctoral Grand Challenges Grant
Congratulations to DPU PhD student Cristian Olmos who has been awarded a UCL Grand Challenges Doctoral Grant, and is co-organising a seminar on the frontlines of mining conflict in the Americas
DPU Director accepts invitation to become a fellow at the Institution of Civil Engineers
Congratulations to DPU Director Prof. Julio D Dávila who has accepted an invitation by the London-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) to become an ICE Fellow.
IDS Opinion
Urbanisation
and the learning agenda for health systems research
Annie Wilkinson
Smallholder
data collection: Challenges for agribusinesses in Africa
Peter Flynn
Open
for business: what does investment look like on the ground?
Ian Scoones
Trust
and democratic change – reflections from Myanmar
Araddhya Mehtta
Challenging
gender norms to achieve sustainable sanitation
Naomi Vernon
Is
CRISPER the next big thing in international development
Patrick Schroder
Some
exciting progress on Governance Diaries
Duncan Green
CIDT delivers Forest Governance and Training of Trainers course in Malaysia
CIDT facilitates regional Member consultations in Bangkok and New York for the NDC Partnership
Celebrating Mary Surridge’s long service at CIDT
CIDT lead Project Management Masterclasses for staff of the Caribbean Development Bank
OU's Professor Theo Papaioannou appointed Director of Innogen Institute
Professor Theo Papaioannou is the new Director of the Innogen Institute, The Open University–University of Edinburgh centre for research on the social, political and economic implications of emerging technologies. To publicise its latest research, Innogen is planning a major event on industrial strategy and innovation, which will coincide with the OU’s 50th anniversary celebrations next spring, and is aimed squarely at engaging policymakers and politicians. Read more…
New grant to research how migration aids growth in Africa
The Open University has been awarded £706,706 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to explore how migration is contributing to growth in Africa. The project, Inclusive Societies: Migration for Inclusive African Growth is led by Professor Giles Mohan, Chair in International Development. Read more…
The Open University and Oxfam launch free course: Make Change Happen
Understand how power dynamics, collaboration, opportunity and action can tackle injustice and bring positive change in a new free eight-week course from The Open University and Oxfam, available on FutureLearn. Read more…
Free OU course for teacher educators in Africa wins international award for digital innovation
A free online course designed by Open University education academics and presented on FutureLearn, has won a ‘Digital Innovation of the Year’ award at the prestigious PIEoneer Awards 2018. ‘Making Teacher Education Relevant for 21st Century Africa’ was selected as the winner by the judges in the Digital Innovation (Learning) category. Read more...
Call for Panels: DSA2019 - Opening up Development
DSA2019 (taking place at The Open University 19-21 June) invites proposals for panels and workshops that engage critically with dimensions of Opening up Development. A key aim is for all panels to attempt to combine academic and practitioners work within most panels. Deadline 14 November 2018. Read more about the event and the call.
Institutional member news
EADI
EADI student membership is now free to all students
See here for all the details and how to become an EADI member.
Conferences
VII Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Association for Human Development and the Capabilities Approach (ALCADECA)
“Public policies for human development in the context of
inequality”
Universidad de las Américas Puebla, México
Puebla, Mexico
May 29-31, 2019
See the full call for papers here.
Abstract submission deadline: 3 December 2018
Courses
Indian Social Policy Network
Early Career Academic Winter School on Social Policy in Developing Context
Venue: Jindal Global Educational and Professional
Academy, NTH Complex, A2 Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg,
Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi , India
Dates: 17- 18 December, 2018 .
School of International Development, University of East Anglia
Impact Evaluation for Evidence - Based Policy in Development
13-24 May 2019
Climate Change and International Development
3-7 June 2019
Water Security for Policy Makers and Practitioners
24-28 June 2019
A full list of these and other short courses can be found here.
ESRC STEPS Centre 2019 Summer School
13-24 May 2019
IDS, University of Sussex, UK
Deadline to apply: 27 January 2019
ESRC STEPS Centre invites applications for its 2019 Summer School. Application is by a selective process, via an online form. ESRC STEPS hope to let applicants know whether or not their application has been successful by the end of February 2019.
See the website for further details and testimonials from previous students.
Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London
Launch of free DPU/SLURC MOOC on development and planning in African Cities
We are delighted to announce the launch of a 4-week online course on Development and Planning in African Cities. The course is free and open to all.
University of Bradford
Study with Us: Postgraduate and Doctoral Programmes
Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford is for people who want to change the world. Our students are surprisingly diverse but what unites them is their vision of a fairer, kinder society and a commitment to learning both intellectual and practical skills to take into their future professional lives. The Peace Studies values are simple: intellectual curiosity, dialogue, and a belief that violent conflict, hatred and destructive inequalities are not inevitable. We need the dreamers, the questioners, and the community builders more than ever. Come and join us!
OUR MASTERS DEGREES
MA in Advanced Practice in Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution
MSc in Economics and Finance for Development
MA in International Development Management
MA in International Relations and Security Studies
MA in Peace, Conflict and Development
MA in Peace, Resilience and Social Justice
MSc Project Planning and Management
MSc Sustainable Development
DOCTORAL STUDY
If you are interesting in pursuing doctoral research in the area of peace studies and international development, please get in contact with us directly.
Research Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
Msc Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty
The MSc Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty is a transdisciplinary course addressing current issues related to food systems, management of natural resources, climate change, and building just and resilient societies. It is a unique approach to finding sustainable solutions where conventional approaches are failing, in that it goes beyond the issue of access to natural resources, food and water, and addresses their governance locally, nationally and at a global scale.
This course is designed for students from a wide range of disciplines that include physical and natural sciences, geography, social sciences and humanities, economics, and political sciences. It is designed and delivered at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) which is the largest centre in the world doing transdisciplinary research in these areas.
University of East London (UEL)
The PG Cert in NGO and Development Management via Distance Learning at UEL offers you the opportunity to examine the central issues facing developing countries in today’s globalized world and to learn practical skills to work in development. This course not only addresses the theories of development but also explores how development works at the grassroots. The distance learning delivery enables flexible learning so you can fit your study around work or other commitments.
Details of requirements and application procedures can be found here.
For more information please contact K.E.Wright(at)uel.ac.uk
University of Chester
Undergraduate programme
For more information on our undergraduate programme, please see our website.
IDS, Sussex
Contribution
Analysis for Impact Evaluation
7 to 11 January 2019
Gain the skills and knowledge to more effectively design impact
evaluations using a contribution analysis framing.
Engaging
Evidence and Policy for Social Change
15 to 17 January 2019
Gain the concepts, skills and competencies required to operate
effectively at the interface between policy and evidence.
Using
Participatory Action Research to Improve Development Practice
21 to 25 January 2019
Develop your knowledge and skills in a range of participatory action
research (PAR) methods for social change.
Food is a cross-cutting development issue that concerns hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition, environment sustainability, power politics, social justice and cultural identity. It is about the global and the local and the hard trade-offs that the globalisation era has brought about.
This MA draws on wide-ranging expertise of faculty at both IDS and School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex (where you will be based). You will gain an advanced understanding of the complex relationship between food and development.
Apply to one of IDS’ postgraduate degrees in international development. The University of Sussex is currently ranked first in the world for development studies. The QS World Ranking reflects the strong reputation and quality of research and course offerings across campus, including by IDS. Our courses are:
• International Development PhD by Research
• MA Development Studies
• MA Food and Development
• MA Gender and Development
• MA Globalisation, Business and Development
• MA Governance, Development and Public Policy
• MA Participation, Power and Social Change
• MA Poverty and Development
• MSc Climate Change, Development and Policy
More information on the IDS website.
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Global Health Msc/PGDip/PGCert
Our Global Health will help you understand the complex determinants of health and ill-health in a globalised world and their potential solutions in order to help you contribute to the improvement of health and the achievement of health equity and social justice worldwide. Graduates from this course will have the skills to work as global health practitioners, policy makers, consultants or researchers within NGOs, governments and international health and development agencies.
For more information visit the website.
Meetings & Seminars
London School of Economics (LSE)
The Politics of Humanitarianism: Perspectives from South Sudan
Friday 23 November 2018 | 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Senior Common Room, Old Building
Speakers: Jok Madut Jok, Martin Ochaya, Alex de Waal, Naomi Pendle and Rachel Ibreck
Join us for the launch of the Conflict Research Programme’s new paper on the politics of humanitarianism in South Sudan, which adds a distinctive perspective to these debates by drawing on the expertise of twelve prominent South Sudanese academics and activists. The paper explores issues of humanitarian access, accountability, authority and the roles of South Sudanese humanitarian activists. The paper questions norms of humanitarian knowledge production, and discusses the histories and futures of South Sudanese humanitarian agenda setting.
Copies of the paper will be made available to participants. The event will begin with a drinks reception and networking in the Senior Common Room from 5.30pm. The panel will begin at 6pm.
More info: a.m.robinson(at)lse.ac.uk
Click here to reserve your seats.
Perpetrators: The world of the genocidal troops in the Guatemalan Army
Monday 3 December 2018 | 6pm – 8pm
Venue: NAB.2.06
Speaker: Manolo Vela (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City)
Chair: Arjan Gjonça (LSE International Development)
Prof Vela, a leading expert on mass violence in Latin America, will address the micro-level dynamics of state-sponsored repression during the Guatemalan Civil War. The campaigns of mass violence conducted in rural areas of the country provide a unique insight into the daily dynamics of state-sponsored terror in Latin America during the Cold War. Prof Vela will centre his discussion on the perpetrators of the Guatemalan Genocide, a group about which very little is known.
More info: alburezg(at)lse.ac.uk
This event is free and open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
Global Development Institute (GDI)
The GDI have launched their open lecture series, free to attend for all and livestreamed via Facebook.
Phil Woodhouse, Global Development Institute: How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth in Africa? Wednesday 28 November 4.30pm - 6pm
The GDI have a number of events featuring: Yuen Yuen Ang, Lord Nicholas Stern, the Rt Hon Helen Clark and Kate Osamor. All events are free and open.
Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID)
Launch event for SIID-Engineers, a group working at the intersection of engineering and international development led by Energy 2050 PhD student, Hannah Mottram. Taking place 26th November.
Screening of the first in a series of SIID films: "Facing the Mountain" and "Mountain, Priest, Son", followed by Q&A with the film-maker Vaibhav Kaul, on 28th November.
"The Prevent Strategy in (Mental) Healthcare: Securitized Care Pathways under Austerity" : lecture by Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly.
5th December 2018. 16:30 - 18:00pm. The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 9 at The University of Sheffield.
Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London
Singularity.
A manifesto for incomparable geographies
5:30pm to 7pm, 28 November 2018.
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Seminar Series, Term 1, 2018-19
Tuesdays, 5-7PM
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
All welcome, no need to book
20 November 2018
The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of
Neoliberalism
Dr Jessica Whyte (University of Western Sydney)
27 November 2018
The Wild East: India’s Criminal Economy and Politics
Professor Barbara Harriss-White (University of Oxford)
4 December 2018
SPECIAL PANEL EVENT
Dr Susanne Jaspars (SOAS University of London)
Professor Laura Hammond (SOAS University of London)
Professor David Keen (London School of Economics)
Power, Politics, and Profit: The History of Food Aid in Conflict
and Protracted Crisis
See the full list of upcoming seminars here.
IDD, University of Birmingham
‘Foreign Aid Donors and Human Rights in the Global South’
British Academy-supported Conference
Wednesday 12th December 10.00-17.00
The University of Birmingham
The conference will bring together academics, policymakers, and practitioners interested in how aid donors engage with human rights in developing countries. See here for more information.
EADI – Convivial Thinking
Call for Participation: Critical academic perspectives on
scholarship in
the social sciences – How do we “know” the world?
One-day workshop - 17 January 2019
EADI, Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 13, 53113 Bonn
In the last few years we have witnessed a ‘postcolonial turn’ in relation to questions about the historical bases for how we approach issues of knowledge (co-)production, expertise and representation and which have gained significant momentum in academic discussions. Our one-day workshop aims to bridge academic “silos” and connect scholars from diverse fields in the social sciences to consider how we ‘know’ the world’ and what engaging with this question might mean for social science scholarship.
For the full call, please visit here.
Deadline for abstracts: 27
November 2018.
Job vacancies
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
PhD and Postdoctoral positions available
See here
for all the details
Deadlines range from 15 Nov 2018 to 30 Nov 2018.
Global Development Institute (GDI)
Professor/Reader
In Development Economics
Closing date 30 November 2018
Applications are particularly encouraged from candidates whose work addresses the challenges of growth and distribution, but candidates with a strong research profile in any area of development economics (including both macro- and micro-economics) will be considered.
Funding opportunities
See 'Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)' post in job section above.
Publications
Global Development Institute (GDI)
Tanja Müller has a chapter in a new book: Back to square one between Eritrea and Ethiopia? Eritrean foreign policy and the repercussions of geopolitical re-alignments in the Horn
Tanja Müller has also published The imaginary of socialist citizenship in Mozambique: the School of Friendship as an affective community has been published in Twentieth Century Communism.
Heiner Janus and Silke Weinlich have published “A mountain worth climbing: reforming the un department of economic and social affairs” – a policy brief by the German development institute.
Call for funded case studies
There is a call for funded case studies: critical analyses of urban
data in the global South that will help build the evidence base on
“data justice”; particularly relating to those living in slums and
informal settlements. For more information see the main
call document.
Deadline: 23 November 2018.
Oxford Department of International Development (ODID)
Geoff Goodwin (2018) 'Water, Infrastructure and Power: Contention and Resistance in Post-Colonial Cities of the South' Development and Change
Robtel Neajai Pailey (2018) 'Between rootedness and rootlessness: how sedentarist and nomadic metaphysics simultaneously challenge and reinforce (dual) citizenship claims for Liberia', Migration Studies 6 (3) 400-19
Caine Rolleston and Padmini Iyer (2018) ‘Beyond the basics: Access and equity in the expansion of post-compulsory schooling in Vietnam’, International Journal of Educational Development
Diego Sánchez‐Ancochea and Juliana Martínez Franzoni ‘Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom’, Social Policy and Administration
Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen (2018) ‘Refugee Energy’, RSC Research in Brief 8.
Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London
DPU News Issue 64
Focus
on: A response to rising urban inequality
By Caren Levy
Where
are the women in major projects leadership?
By Emily Miles and Sue Pritchard
Comparative
urban design: Border making practices in Medellín & Beirut
Edited by Catalina Ortiz
In the media
Zeremariam Fre talks to ABC News – The World
Why Fixing
Slums is Key to the Future of Cities | What Happens Next | Retro
Report
Julio Davila featured in ten minute video on Medellin's low income
settlements
Digital Media
Podcast
DPU Breakfast Series
Dr.
Alexandre Apsan Frediani - The capability approach to city making:
Reflecting on writing ‘Cities for Human Development’
Dialogues in Development
Accessing
justice and addressing urban inequalities through community
paralegal services in Nigeria
Blog
Reflections
on Waste, Informality, and Scaling Up
By Ruchika Lall
Finding
Spaces of Longitudinal Learning and Institutional Reflexivity
By Ruchika Lall
IDS, University of Sussex
Does
Land Titling Matter? The Role of Land Property Rights in Colombia’s
War on Drugs
IDS Policy Briefing 156
What
constrains renewable energy investment in Sub-Saharan Africa? A
comparison of Kenya and Ghana
World Development 109
Uncovering
'Community': Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and
Disaster Related Work
Societies 8
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Dyson, Tim. A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Print.
Venugopal, Rajesh. Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Print.
Kar, Sohini. Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. Print.
Jean-Paul Faguet. The Lessons of Bolivia. Journal of Democracy 29, no. 4 (2018): 89-101.
David Keen. Double games: Success, failure and the relocation of risk in fighting terror, drugs and migration. Political Geography 67, Pages 100-110 (2018)
Da Fonseca, Elize Massard, Kenneth Shadlen, and Francisco Inacio Bastos. Integrating Science, Technology and Health Policies in Brazil: Incremental Change and Public Health Professionals as Agents of Reform. Journal of Latin American Studies. Cambridge University Press, 1–24.
School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS
Carlos Oya, Florian Schaefer and Dafni Skalidou (2018). The
effectiveness
of agricultural certification in developing countries: A systematic
review. World Development.
Lebdioui, Amir (2018) “Uncovering the High Value of Neglected Minerals: Development Minerals as inputs for industrial development in North Africa”, Extractive Industries and Society.
IDD, University of Birmingham
Fisher, J. (2018) AMISOM
and the regional construction of a failed
state in Somalia, African Affairs, online first.
Nunan, F., D. Cepić, E. Yongo, M. Salehe, B. Mbilingi, K. Odongkara, P. Onyango, E. Mlahagwa and M. Owili (2018) Compliance, corruption and co-management: how corruption fuels illegalities and undermines the legitimacy of fisheries co-management. International Journal of the Commons, 12(2): 58–79.
Christian Aid
Centre for Excellence in Research, Evidence and Learning at Christian Aid
In October, the Rethinking Research Collaborative published new research and a set of resources on fair and equitable research partnerships in development research. The report shares findings on the persistent bottlenecks in research partnerships that risk undermining their international development goals, and describes eight principles for addressing them. The resources – an introduction, six modules and nine written and audio case studies – are designed to help different research stakeholders involved in collaborative international development research – UK-based academics, Southern academics, Southern CSOs, INGOs, funders and brokers – put the principles into practice.
DSA members – New book
Mozammel Huq and Michael Tribe have published a new book on "The Economy of Ghana" (Palgrave Macmillan - September 2018). The book covers the period from independence in 1957 to 2015, although some of the chapters do not contain detail for the period before the early 1980s. The new book follows Mozammel Huq's earlier publication (1989) which covered the period from independence to the mid-1980s in detail. The 2018 edition contains 21 chapters (with three specialist chapter appendices) and a significant statistical annex. The statistical annex (together with the bibliography and index) can be freely downloaded at present from the publisher's website.
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Call for papers: Vivir Bien/ Buen Vivir and post-neoliberal development paths in Latin America: Scope, strategies and the realities of implementation
(Issue Editors: Kepa Artaraz; Melania Calestani; Mei L. Trueba). For more information please contact Mei Trueba (m.trueba(at)bsms.ac.uk ) or visit the LAP website.
European Journal of Development Research
European Association of Development and Training Institutes (EADI)
Early Career Researchers initiative
This aims at helping eligible researchers in their
first approaches to academic publication
Call, recently renewed, for studies/papers in Impact Evaluation.
Practical Action Publishing
The Sphere Handbook has launched!
This launch also marks the 20th anniversary of the Sphere movement, which has grown into a community of purpose spanning the globe.
In the new edition, readers will find:
• A stronger focus on the role of local authorities and communities
as actors of their own recovery
• Strengthened guidance on context analysis to apply the standards
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security of tenure in shelter and settlement, and palliative care in
health
• Different ways to deliver or enable assistance, including cash-based
assistance
We have put together a huge collection of most-downloaded books & articles in celebration of Open Access Week 2018, including a book from Institute of Development Studies legend Robert Chambers, new research on sanitation, and a best-seller discussing policy for Africa's poorest. Start reading for free!
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
New titles from OUP
The
Politics and Governance of Basic Education
A Tale of Two South African Provinces
Edited by Brian Levy, Robert Cameron, Ursula Hoadley, and Vinothan
Naidoo
ISBN: 9780198824053
Extractive
Industries
The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development
Edited by Tony Addison and Alan Roe
ISBN: 9780198817369
Uncertain
Futures
Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy
Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk
ISBN: 9780198820802
A
Population History of India
From
the First Modern People to the Present Day
Tim Dyson
ISBN: 9780198829058
Routledge offer
Reframing Adolescent Research
Edited by Leo B. Hendry, Professor of Psychology, University of
Glamorgan, UK, and Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK
and Marion Kloep, University of Glamorgan, UK.
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This ground-breaking volume focuses on the challenges and new directions in adolescent development research. Contributions from world-class academics examine theoretical concerns and methodological challenges to substantive areas in the field, whilst considering innovations and novel approaches to the study of adolescence and development across the lifespan. New theories, methods and interventions are presented that are essential to advancing the project of understanding adolescents, youth and how they develop on a global stage. This is valuable reading for advanced students and researchers in adolescent development and developmental psychology.
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Browse Routledge’s 2018 collection of development studies textbooks here, or all of our latest titles here, and get your 20% DSA discount at checkout by entering code AF039!
Meanwhile, several exciting new publications for you to check out this month- click on the links to find out more:
"This revolutionary book offers a blueprint for reform of oppressive family laws in a variety of global contexts, secular and religious, progressive and traditional. This is a handbook to be dog-eared by activists and a fascinating read elucidating how change happens even in the most traditional societies." – Madhavi Sunder, Georgetown University Law Center, USA
"An essential resource for academics and activists alike." –Deniz Kandiyoti, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
"For those at the chalk face of international development assistance, Sarah Forti’s book will be indispensable." – Wade Mansell, Emeritus at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK
"The author builds upon a wealth of experience in the field of international development assistance to highlight the universality of violations of women’s rights and rescue the concept of gender justice from discursive fragmentations stemming from cultural relativism and identity politics. An important book not only for development practitioners but for anyone interested in finding clear pathways through the maze of ideologies of gender equality and justice." – Patrick Thornberry, Emeritus at Keele University, member of the (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and former Chairman of Minority Rights Group, the international human rights NGO
THE
ETHICS OF DEVELOPMENT: AN INTRODUCTION
BY DAVID INGRAM, THOMAS J DERDAK
"Ingram and Derdak combine philosophical insights and social-scientific findings in a sophisticated manner and thereby illuminate a host of pressing moral issues – including sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and world trade. The textbook is a much-needed addition to the normative literature on global development." — Julian Culp, The American University of Paris, France
"This work revisits old questions across a broad array of topics in development studies, while bringing a fresh sense of exigency on the ethical dimensions of theory and practice." — Rajesh Sampath, Brandeis University, USA
"...an excellent contribution to the field of International Political Sociology. […] Niemann's study provides a thorough analysis of the complexities and dynamics of processes of legitimation and de-legitimation within international organizations." — Anna Geis, Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany
"Holger Niemann’s book lands at an auspicious time. It explores how contested ideas about global security are represented, defined, and fought over at the Security Council in the United Nations. The Council has tremendous power to act on behalf of international security but only the vaguest guidance on what that means. Niemann shows how the Council has filled that ambiguous term with specific meaning - and meanings - over the years at the service of various interests." — Ian Hurd, Northwestern University, USA.
