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We are the UK association for all those who research, study and teach global development issues
Find Out MoreUniversity of Bath, 25–27 June 2025
#DSA2025 conference will place as a hybrid conference and will be organised and hosted by the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath. The Conference convenors are Mihika Chatterjee, lecturer in International Development and Aurelie Charles, Senior Lecturer in Global Sustainability.
Format: Hybrid – For the first time since 2015, DSA members will be together face-to-face in Bath, however the conference will also use online technologies to ensure participation from those who prefer to engage remotely. There will be a range of panel formats including paper, roundtable, asynchronous and experimental panels, such as debates, speed meetings and more.
Accessing the conference
As a hybrid conference, all the sessions will recorded and later uploaded to the conference website. More details to follow.
Funding
DSA2025 offers partial funding for our delegates to cover their travel and accommodation expenses. More details on the process to follow.
The world has been experiencing profoundly unsettling times and compounding experiences of crisis in the continual unfolding of capitalist development. Alongside rising inequalities, inflation, and enforced austerity, people have been subjected to an admixture of dangers: escalating wars, polarised politics, recurring health emergencies, and deepening ecological crises. Policymakers are increasingly referring to a ‘polycrisis’, where global risks come together to exceed the sum of their parts. Yet, alongside profound dangers, crises always generate commensurate opportunities for transformation and positive change. We invite reflections on how this danger/opportunity dialectic at the heart of crisis and capitalism is playing out in the field of development.
At DSA 2025, we invite colleagues to wrestle with the ways in which development theories and practices, contested epistemologies and methodological challenges confront crises and uncertainty, and contribute (or not) to new opportunities for positive change. Some potential questions to grapple with include:
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