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Dr Marthe Achtnich wins Susan Strange Best Book Prize

7 June 2024

We're happy to announce that Dr Marthe Achtnich has won the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize for Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean. The Susan Strange Best Book Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book published in any field of International Studies...

Development Studies PhD Candidate awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship for 2024-25

28 May 2024

Ana Rojo Fierro is an incoming PhD candidate for our 2024-25 academic year. Gates Cambridge has awarded her a full-cost scholarship on the grounds of 'outstanding intellectual ability'. "I was born and raised in Mexico, a country with boundless cultural and natural richness, but which has been disrupted by almost two...

Dr Marthe Achtnich's Book Shortlisted for Prize

26 April 2024

The shortlist for this year's Susan Strange Best Book Prize includes Dr Marthe Achtnich's new book Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean. The Susan Strange Best Book Prize is awarded for an outstanding book published in any field of International Studies. The...

Dr Marthe Achtnich Publishes New Book

15 February 2024

Dr Marthe Achtnich has recently published a book with Cambridge University Press: ‘Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean.’ The arrival of unauthorized migrants at the shores of southern Europe has been sensationalized into a migration ‘crisis’ in recent years...

Professor Graham Denyer Willis and Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro Win Grants

6 February 2024

The grants will fund projects to examine why Brazil is building prisons exponentially, who benefits, and how the expansion in the number of prisons is changing Brazilian society - and not for the better. The first endowment is a 3 year Leverhulme Research Project Grant amounting to £299,000. It will be used to fund “The...

Dr Jostein Hauge Publishes New Book

6 February 2024

Dr Jostein Hauge has recently published a book with Oxford University Press, titled “The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization”. The book investigates how industrialization pathways are shaped by recent technological developments, new forces of globalization, and the threat of ecological...

Dr Ilias Alami's Latest Article

2 February 2024

Assistant Professor Ilias Alami has had a new paper published in the European Journal of International Relations. Written with Jack Taggart, Dr Alami's paper is titled A partial conversion: how the ‘unholy trinity’ of global economic governance adapts to state capitalism. Please follow the link below to access Dr Alami's...

Dr Tadashi Hirai publishes new article on values in the capability approach

23 September 2021

Dr Tadashi Hirai, Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate at the Centre of Development Studies, has published a new article in the journal World Development. His paper, 'Measuring capabilities: taking people's values seriously', integrates insights from the capability approach to development and positive psychology...

Former CDS PhD Student and Gates Scholar Dima Krayem Profiled

10 September 2021

The Gates Cambridge Trust has recently interviewed one of the Centre of Development Studies' former PhD students about her work with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Dima Krayem, who conducted her doctoral research as a Gates Cambridge Scholar under the supervision of Dr Maha Abdelrahman, Reader in Middle Eastern Politics and...

PhD Graduate Shreyashi Dasgupta awarded honourable mention for prestigious Bayly Prize

7 September 2021

We are very pleased to report that PhD graduate, Dr Shreyashi Dasgupta, has been awarded Honourable Mention, for the prestigious Bayly prize for Best Dissertation. The Royal Asiatic Society found Shreyashi's dissertation, entitled "The Accommodation City: Private, Low-Income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai" to...