Our Aims and Objectives

We are the UK association for all those who research, study and teach global development issues

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What is Development Studies

What is development studies and decolonising development.

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Our Members

We have around 1,000 members, made up of individuals and around 40 institutions

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Governance

Find out about our constitution, how we are run and meet our Council

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People

Meet our Council members and other staff who support the running of DSA

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About

The DSA Conference is an annual event which brings together the development studies community

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DSA2025

Our conference this year is themed "Navigating crisis: dangers and opportunities in development"

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Past Conferences

Find out about our previous conferences

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Study Groups

Our Study Groups offer a chance to connect with others who share your areas of interest

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Students and ECRs

Students and early career researchers are an important part of our community

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Publications

Our book series with OUP and our relationship with other publishers

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Decolonising Development

The initiatives we are undertaking that work towards decolonising development studies

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Membership Directory

Find out who our members are, where they are based and the issues they work on

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Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, January News

Events:

Launch of a special issue on Senegal and Zimbabwe, co-edited by DSA Council member and  Lecturer in African Studies and International Development, Rama Dieng. This hybrid event will launch a special issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, as a double bilingual (English-French) special issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

The issue focuses on: agrarian change, food security, migration and sustainable development in Senegal & Zimbabwe. Register.

Blogs

“In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa.” New blog in English on Africa is a Country: and in French on Afrique XXI by Rama Salla Dieng.

Publications