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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LSE – November 2024

Publications

Beck, Silke, Forsyth, Tim and Mahony, Martin (2024) Climate change and STS. In: Felt, Ulrike and Irwin, Alan, (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies. Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 451 – 459. ISBN 9781800377981

El Kadi, Tin (2024) Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa. Information Society, 40 (2). 136 – 153. ISSN 0197-2243

Melvin, Jennifer (2024) The rhetorical power of aid for trade: UK aid in the age of Brexit and Covid-19. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 45 (1). 42 – 61. ISSN 0225-5189

Atingo, Jackline, Allen, Tim and Macdonald, Anna (2024) Witnessing Ongwen: a betrayal of expectations? Journal of International Criminal Justice. ISSN 1478-1395

News

Professor Ernestina Coast was invited to speak at the Institute Nationale des Etudes Demographiques (INED) in Paris. She presented a talk on Global Abortion Policies and participated in a panel discussion.

Can the IMF make it to 100?” Professor Robert Wade dives into the institution’s future and challenges ahead for Project Syndicate. Read here.

Professor Kate Meagher and Professor Duncan Green share their thoughts on the winners of the 2024 Nobel Economics Prize and their contribution in comparative studies of prosperity between nations.