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PhD Candidate Tessa Laing is runner-up in POLIS Fieldwork Photography Competition

15 July 2020

Congratulations go to PhD Candidate Tessa Laing, who came second in the POLIS Annual Fieldwork Photography Competition with her photo 'I stripped in front of Government Ministers to defend our land.' Acholi and Benet communities share strategies of resistance to violent eviction at the foot of Mount Elgon, Uganda, October...

Former Development Studies PhD, Professor Roberto Borghi publishes article for "In the Long Run" blog. 'A tale of two Brazils: What COVID-19 has made explicit'

7 May 2020

Former Development Studies PhD student, Roberto A.Z. Borghi, is Professor of Economics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Studies on International Economic Relations (CERI) and the Centre of Industrial and Technology Economics (NEIT), both at UNICAMP. He has published...

CDS Office closure due to Coronavirus/Covid19 - administrators working from home

18 March 2020

CDS Office Closed Until Further Notice Following UK government guidelines to limit the spread of Coronavirus/Covid19, our administrators are now working at home, and the office is closed until further notice. Our administrators can still be reached via email, but as the University is being severely impacted by the...

Dr. Noura Wahby awarded the prestigious Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in Social Sciences at MESA

19 November 2019

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Noura Wahby, former CDS PhD student, has been awarded the prestigious Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in Social Sciences at MESA (Middle East Studies Association) 2019, for her thesis “The Role of the State and Urban Development- The Case of Urban Waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt” The...

Dr Maryam Tanwir has been awarded a fellowship by the International Labour Organisation, to the gender academy in Turin, Italy

17 October 2019

Dr Maryam Tanwir has been awarded a fellowship by the International Labour Organisation, to the gender academy in Turin, Italy. Details. https://www.itcilo.org/en/areas-of-expertise/gender-equality-and-diversity/gender-academy

Malthusian Moments

17 September 2019

Please see link below to a special issue from the Historical Journal co-written by Dr Shailaja Fennell of CDS: https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2019/07/17/malthusian-moments-a-special-issue-from-the-historical-journal/

CDS welcomes new Centre Administrator

10 September 2019

We are very pleased to welcome Dawn Bradley to the administrative team. Dawn has just taken on the role of Centre Administrator, with responsibility for the MPhil programme. She has come from the Faculty of Economics within the University.

Former Development Studies PhD student releases monograph

22 August 2019

Former Development Studies PhD student, Madleina Daehnhardt's monograph, "Migration, Development and Social Change in the Himalayas" has been released with Routledge in August 2019.

CDS Welcomes New Admin Staff Members

2 August 2019

We are very happy to welcome Annabel Sherwood to the administrative team, who has just taken on the role of PhD Administrator. The Centre bids farewell to Centre Administrator Emma Cantu, who will be starting a Masters programme in Wildlife Conservation this September. Her position will be covered by temporary...

Former Development Studies students launch new textbook

26 June 2019

Stressing the need to exploit the momentum of the current global youth movement against climate change, 28 young authors recently launched the first Danish high school textbook in development studies. The launch took place in front of 130 teachers, development professional, academics, and interested public in the UN City...