News

Centre of Development Studies academic Dr Ilias Alami delivered the 2026 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, “Imperial State Capitalism and the Long Arc of History” at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual international conference in London. The lecture will be published in the pages of the journal Antipode, and a video recording will be available…

Centre of Development Studies academic Dr Jostein Hauge was recently interviewed by CNN on the topic of automation in Chinese industry. Titled Inside China's robot-filled "dark factories", the video interview sees Dr Hauge comparing Chinese and American industry. Watch the full video interview here.

Development Studies PhD Student Promise Frank Ejiofor has published a new article titled 'The scars of ambiguity: Terrorism, disappearance, and the search for life in contemporary Africa'. The article is published in the European Journal of International Security.

Development Studies MPhil degree holder (2025-2026) Mohammed Mourtaja has founded and launched GazaIndex: a website defined as "a living record of the genocide in Gaza, kept in numbers.” Every figure on GazaIndex is tied to a primary source, dated and traceable, and is continuously updated. It can be reached at www.gazaindex.org

Queens' College intends to appoint a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) from 1 October 2027 in Development Studies.Junior Research Fellowships offer early-career academics of exceptional intellectual calibre the opportunity to pursue research for up to three years at Queens’ College, Cambridge. These posts are intended to be early-career appointments ope…

Development Studies PhD Student Biagio Rosso, in collaboration with Jamie Lenney (Bank of England), recently co-authored a working paper titled “A Flexible Deviation from FIRE in the Sequence Space”. This paper has now been published as part of the Bank of England Staff Working Paper Series.Biagio's paper can be read in full here: https://www.banko…

Dr Jostein Hauge was recently interviewed by Michael Walker on Novara Media's YouTube channel. In the interview, Dr Hauge discusses China's economic rise, arguing that the scale and pace of Chinese development is unique in human history. The full interview, titled 'EXPERT: China’s Leaders Are Smarter Than The West’s', can be seen here: https://www.…

We're sad to announce the passing of our friend and colleague, Dr Harriet Sturdy. Harriet started work as the Centre of Development Studies' PhD Administrator in 2022, having previously worked as Headteacher at the Cambridge International School. Harriet co-founded the School in 2005. Above all, we will remember Harriet for her kindness. In her fou…

Development Studies assistant professor Dr Julien Migozzi has recently published three new papers, all of which can be accessed online.The first of these papers was published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, with Dr Migozzi's colleague Desiree Fields (UC Berkeley) listed as co-author. In this article, Julien Migozzi (POLIS) and Des…

Dr Jostein Hauge was recently interviewed on Al Jazeera's flagship economics and business programme: 'Counting the Cost'. Discussing China's economic performance since the start of the Iran war, Dr Hauge argues that China has been resilient to the war's effects on international markets. The full episode of Counting the Cost, titled 'Is China a winn…

Development Studies PhD Student Promise Frank Ejiofor has published four new articles:Gendercide and terrorism studies https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2026.2645376 The masculine threat: Hegemonic masculinity  and gendercide in communal warfare (co-authored with Tobias Tseer) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13691481251…

Centre of Development Studies Staff 

The special issue is titled: “Migrants, Farmers and Farmworkers and the Politics of Land and Labour” https://link.springer.com/collections/chcgaghjaf and is published in Agriculture and Human Values.The issue is guest edited by Prof. Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco, Dr. Tsegaye Moreda, Martha Jane Robbins, Prof. Wang Chunyu, Dr. Yunan X…

Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge was recently interviewed by Emma Vigeland on The Majority Report, a popular YouTube political talk show that has over two million subscribers. Dr Hauge discusses great power rivalries in light of the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, arguing that the USA's traditional allies have turned toward…

Following a competitive process including more than 200 applicants, Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso has been selected for a PhD Traineeship at the European Central Bank (ECB). This traineeship will include work on a macroeconomics research project/paper in DSGE & HANK modelling and sequence space solution methods at the Forecasting and…