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CDS Speaker Series - Michaelmas Term 2018

7 November 2018

The Centre of Development Centre runs a weekly Speaker Series, which is attended by all of the centre's students and academic staff, with both external academics and internal PhD students presenting papers. Please do join us on Thursdays at 15h30 in ARB (room SG1).

Dr Maryam Tanwir and Dr Nitya Mohan Khemka publish article: 'Breaking the silicon ceiling: Gender equality and information technology in Pakistan'

6 November 2018

We are delighted to let you know that Dr Maryam Tanwir and Dr Nitya Mohan Khemka's final published article (the Version of Record) is now on Taylor & Francis Online. 'Breaking the silicon ceiling: Gender equality and information technology in Pakistan' can be found online at: ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10...

Graduate Open Day - 2 November

25 October 2018

The Open Day for students interested in coming to Cambridge to study on a postgraduate course will be on Friday 2 November 2018, between 2:30 - 4:00pm. The University of Cambridge Postgraduate Open day is open to current final year students or graduates who are seeking to enter into postgraduate study at Masters or PhD...

New book published with contributions from members of the Centre of Development Studies

19 October 2018

New book published: New Frontiers of the Capability Approach , with contributions from members of the Centre of Development Studies. Edited by CDS lecturers Dr Flavio Comim and Dr Shailaja Fennell, as well as Dr P. B. Anand, the book explores the new frontiers of the capability approach and its links to human development...

Shreyashi Dasgupta, CDS PhD candidate, to present research in photographic exhibition at Cambridge Festival of Ideas

18 October 2018

We are delighted to announce that Shreyashi Dasgupta, PhD candidate at CDS, will be presenting her research in a photographic exhibition at the Festival of Ideas. BEDS IN SHEDS’: ARE BANGLADESH AND INDIA ANY DIFFERENT? Saturday 20 October: 11:00am - 5:00pm Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Road, CB3 9DZ Are "Beds in...

CDS PhD candidate, Shreyashi Dasgupta to present her PhD research in a photographic exhibition at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

18 October 2018

We are delighted to announce that Shreyashi Dasgupta, a PhD candidate at CDS, will be presenting her research in a photographic exhibition: ‘BEDS IN SHEDS’: ARE BANGLADESH AND INDIA ANY DIFFERENT? Saturday 20 October: 11:00am - 5:00pm Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Road, CB3 9DZ Are "Beds in Sheds" urban innovation...

Dr Ha-Joon Chang appointed as member of Development Policy of the UN Economic and Social Council

5 October 2018

Congratulations to our Centre Director, Dr Ha-Joon Chang, who has been appointed as a member of the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He will sit on the committee from the 1st January, 2019 to 31st December 2021.

Fernando Bucheli, PhD student, winner of the Kuklys Prize at the Annual Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) Conference 2018.

20 September 2018

Fernando Bucheli , one of our PhD students, has recently won the Kuklys Prize at the Annual Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) Conference 2018 for the best conference paper by a graduate student. The conference's main theme was 'Human Development and Social Inclusion in an Urbanising World'. The winning...

Matthew Mahmoudi, PhD Candidate at CDS, receives the Jo Cox Studentship

29 August 2018

Matthew Mahmoudi is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies (POLIS) and the recipient of the Jo Cox Studentship from Pembroke College. Matt talks with the College's Master, Lord Chris Smith, about the role academia and politics can play in responding to refugee crises. Hear more from Matt and Lord Smith's...

Danish Cambridge students set to publish the first textbook on Development Studies for high schools in Denmark

26 July 2018

Georgios Marinos (MPhil in Development Studies, at the Centre of Development Studies) and Peter Andreas Nielsen (MPhil in Economics, at the Department of Economics) are leading a project from the University Cambridge that aims to bring together Danish graduate students worldwide to author the first textbook on Development...