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Dr Graham Denyer Willis awarded Queens' Prize for Outstanding Contributions to College Education

16 July 2021

graham.webp Dr Graham Denyer Willis (Centre of Development Studies, POLIS and CLAS) has been awarded one of this year’s Queens’ Prizes for Outstanding Contributions to College Education for Geography. Nominations noted his “exemplary commitment to inclusive practice and accessibility as both a supervisor and Director of...

Centre of Development Studies Annual Report 2020/21 published

15 July 2021

pic_front_cover_v2.jpg We are pleased to bring you the latest edition of the Centre's Annual Report for 2020/2021. Please follow this link to read the Report.

PhD Alumnus Peter Hertenstein has fourth article published

4 May 2021

We are very pleased to report that Peter Hertenstein (PhD 2018) has just published his fourth article in a leading business strategy journal: Hertenstein, P., Alon, I. (2021), A learning portal model of emerging markets multinationals, Global Strategy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1400 . The purpose of the article...

MPhil alumna Rosanna Jackson has articles published

30 April 2021

rosanna_jackson-profile.jpg We are very pleased to report that Rosanna Jackson (MPhil, 2019/20) has recently had two articles published. The first is 'The purpose of policy space for developing and developed countries in a changing global economic system' and is available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/...

Dr Sarada Chatterjee chairs panel and is made Research Fellow

28 April 2021

On 26 April, Dr Sarada Chatterjee (Affiliated Lecturer and Paper Coordinator for Paper 390 Migration, Human Trafficking and Development) chaired and presented in a panel for the University of Tufts South Asian Regional Committee's interdisciplinary panel on 'Gender, labor and trafficking in South Asia'. The discussion...

PhD Candidate Felipe Puccioni has article published

26 April 2021

First year PhD Candidate Felipe Puccioni has had an article published by GV Law Review, a prestigious academic Brazilian journal. Felipe analysed data from all of 33 Courts of Accountability of Brazil. The study, using a multiple linear regression, has confirmed forecasts made by Peter Evans (2004) and Brinkeroff (2010)...

Launch event of journal co-edited by Dr Ha-Joon Chang

16 April 2021

There is the launch event of a special issue on 'Bringing Production Back into Development' of the journal, European Journal of Development Research , co-edited by Ha-Joon Chang (Centre of Development Studies and the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) and Antonio Andreoni (Institute for Innovation and Public...

Fadi Amer, MPhil alumnus and PhD candidate for 2021-22, awarded Gates Scholarship

16 April 2021

We are delighted to report that Fadi Amer, MPhil alumnus (2019-20), has been awarded a Gates scholarship to study a PhD in Development Studies. Fadi met the Gates selection criteria, which are: outstanding intellectual ability reasons for choice of course a commitment to improving the lives of others leadership potential...

PhD Candidate Matthew Mahmoudi awarded ISA Human Rights Section Best Paper Award

13 April 2021

We are delighted to announce that Development Studies PhD candidate Matthew Mahmoudi has been awarded the ISA Human Rights Section Best Paper Award for the 2020 ISA paper "Open Source Investigations and the Technology-Driven Knowledge Controversy in Human Rights Fact-Finding” This was formally announced today during the...

MPhil alumnus Fadi Amer has MPhil dissertation published

12 April 2021

The Centre of Development Studies is delighted to report that Fadi Amer's dissertation (MPhil 2019-20) has been published and is available to read at https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/68/166/th6816604.xml?ArticleBodyColorStyles=pdf-4247 . Fadi won the Centre of Development Studies' Dissertation Prize...