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

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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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Sanitation:

It’s time we unveil the hidden everyday experiences. A new blog by Amanda Hoang reflections on gendered sanitation infrastructures.

In bitterness you can find sweetness: insights from the 2022 world toilet day “making the invisible visible” overdue campaign by Nadine Coetzee and Nelly Leblond, with contributions from Adriana Allen, Claudy Vouhé and Julia Wesely.

Urbanism:
Governmentality and urbanism: Reflections on five decades of change in China. A Bartlett dialogue between Prof. Le-Yin Zhang (DPU) and Prof. Fulong Wu (Bartlett School of Planning), chaired by Prof. Julio D. Dávila (DPU)

DPU PhD thesis on global and local approaches to inner-city change: identifies a concept of ‘kaleidoscopic densification’ to explain the repopulation of inner-city Santiago.

Israel:

Where are Israel’s protests against legal reform heading? – BBC Newsnight. Following the growing protests in Israel against the evolving policies of the current government, the DPU’s Haim Yacobi spoke to BBC News on BBC Newsnight.