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Adam B. Lerner, PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies, awarded the 2018 Northedge Prize

27 April 2018

Adam B. Lerner, a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies, was awarded the 2018 Northedge Prize from Millennium : Journal of International Studies for his essay 'The Uses and Abuses of Victimhood Nationalism in International Politics.' The essay establishes a theoretical framework for comparative analyses of...

2018 Gates Scholars for Centre of Development Studies Announced

12 April 2018

Congratulations to Ms Tessa Laing and Mr Dillon Muhly-Alexander who have been awarded the GATES Cambridge scholarship to commence their programmes this October. Ms Laing, from New Zealand, will be commencing the PhD programme focusing on interactions between local government, citizens and international non-governmental...

Development Studies Academics Take Part in the Official Launch of TIGR2ESS

5 April 2018

During the week of February 21 st Dr Shailaja Fennel and Dr Richard Sidebottom from the Centre of Development Studies took part in the official launch of the TIGR 2 ESS (Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies) research project in New Delhi, India. TIGR 2 ESS spans...

3rd CCC- CAMBRIDGE CAPABILITY CONFERENCE - 2018

7 March 2018

"ON CAPABILITY INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT" CALL FOR PAPERS Cambridge has been home to many researchers working on the Capability Approach. In 2016 we launched a new series of annual capability conferences along similar lines as the early capability conferences that we initiated back in 2001. The main...

Formal Message from the Vice Chancellor Regarding Giulio Regeni

17 January 2018

It has been almost two years since the murder of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge student, in Cairo. As we approach this anniversary, we are no nearer to knowing the truth of what happened to this promising post-graduate, tortured and killed while pursuing wholly legitimate academic research. Once again, we recognise the deep...

Formal Statement from the Vice Chancellor Regarding Giulio Regeni

17 January 2018

New Alumni Online Platform Available

20 December 2017

We are very pleased to announce that a new online alumni platform is available on the Development Studies website. Created by Sebastian Manhart and Will Fairbairn, who completed the MPhil programme here at the Centre in 2015, by joining you will be connected to over 300 alumni from over 60 different countries. This is...

Centre Team Continue Efforts to Establish Research Partnerships with the University of Rwanda

14 November 2017

A team from the Centre of Development Studies recently made the second in a series of trips to Rwanda as part of an ongoing effort to establish research partnerships with the University of Rwanda (UR). With the valued assistance of the Alborada Research fund, the Rwanda UK Goodwill Organisation (RUGO) and Professor Albert...

Winners of the CRIA MPhil Prize Announced

5 October 2017

Generously supported by the Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA), the Department is delighted to announce the first winners of the CRIA prize for the highest average mark on an MPhil course in 2016-17. The Cambridge Review of International Affairs is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original scholarship...

'South Koreans Worked a Democratic Miracle. Can They Do It Again?', a new article by Dr Ha-Joon Chang

15 September 2017

The New York Times has published an article written by our very own Dr Ha-Joon Chang. The article, 'South Koreans Worked a Democratic Miracle. Can They Do It Again?' was published in the 14th September edition, and can be read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/opinion/south-korea-social-mobility.html?rref=collection...