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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Call for Funding OPEN

Through generous awards from the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of International Development, Oxford Development Studies, Development in Practice, University of Bath and the DSA, the DSA2025 conference organisers are able to allocate support funds to help with accepted authors’, convenors’, chairs’ and discussants’ attendance to the DSA conference at the University of Bath, 25-27 June 2025.  The funds are for both online and face-to-face (F2F) delegates.

The rules and criteria are straightforward:

  • ALL applications must be submitted via the ONLINE FORM
  • Only authors with accepted papers, convenors of accepted panels, chairs and discussants to accepted panels in DSA2025 may apply.
  • Applicants should not seek ‘double-funding’ (i.e. you already have full funding from another source). Our aim is to support those who only have partial funding from another source or have no funding at all.
  • Requests for funding may NOT be to cover DSA membership subscriptions.
  • Prioritisation of this support will, in order, be for those who are both from the global South and based at institutions in the global South, early career academics, students and those with exceptional circumstances.

Deadline for applications: 13 March 2025

No request for funding is guaranteed as we expect demand to be greater than the availability of support.

If you have any questions email us conference(at)devstud.org.uk

 

 

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Online delegates: Funding awarded will be allocated as a registration fee waiver in our system, meaning you will either pay nothing for registration or a discounted registration fee. Please do not pay your registration fee until you hear the funding results.

F2F delegates: The initial portion of funding will be allocated as a registration fee waiver in our system; any allocation exceeding that will be remitted to recipients’ bank accounts on receipt of electronic receipts for visa, travel and accommodation costs.

Conditions of funding: All successful applicants will need to pay their costs up-front and then submit receipts in order to be refunded ahead of time or at the conference. (An inability to pay up-front should not discourage you from applying for funds as exceptions can be made in cases where this is not possible.) If a funded delegate is unable to attend the conference, they may be asked to return the full sum, if the circumstances merit it. Receipts are required in order to receive funding. These are the conditions accepted in applying for the funds.