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Ana Rojo Fierro is an incoming PhD candidate for our 2024-25 academic year. Gates Cambridge has awarded her a full-cost scholarship on the grounds of 'outstanding intellectual ability'."I was born and raised in Mexico, a country with boundless cultural and natural richness, but which has been disrupted by almost two decades of conflict. To understa…

The shortlist for this year's Susan Strange Best Book Prize includes Dr Marthe Achtnich's new book Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean. The Susan Strange Best Book Prize is awarded for an outstanding book published in any field of International Studies. The winner of the prize will be a…

Dr Marthe Achtnich has recently published a book with Cambridge University Press: ‘Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean.’The arrival of unauthorized migrants at the shores of southern Europe has been sensationalized into a migration ‘crisis’ in recent years. Yet these depictions fail to …

The grants will fund projects to examine why Brazil is building prisons exponentially, who benefits, and how the expansion in the number of prisons is changing Brazilian society - and not for the better.The first endowment is a 3 year Leverhulme Research Project Grant amounting to £299,000. It will be used to fund “The Prison Consensus: Incarcerati…

Dr Jostein Hauge has recently published a book with Oxford University Press, titled “The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization”. The book investigates how industrialization pathways are shaped by recent technological developments, new forces of globalization, and the threat of ecological collapse. It also charts new p…

Assistant Professor Ilias Alami has had a new paper published in the European Journal of International Relations. Written with Jack Taggart, Dr Alami's paper is titled A partial conversion: how the ‘unholy trinity’ of global economic governance adapts to state capitalism. Please follow the link below to access Dr Alami's paper.Link: https://journal…

Dr Tadashi Hirai, Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate at the Centre of Development Studies, has published a new article in the journal World Development. His paper, 'Measuring capabilities: taking people's values seriously', integrates insights from the capability approach to development and positive psychology, with the aim of making policy…

The Gates Cambridge Trust has recently interviewed one of the Centre of Development Studies' former PhD students about her work with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Dima Krayem, who conducted her doctoral research as a Gates Cambridge Scholar under the supervision of Dr Maha Abdelrahman, Reader in Middle Eastern Politics and Development, is now a Senio…

We are very pleased to report that PhD graduate, Dr Shreyashi Dasgupta, has been awarded Honourable Mention, for the prestigious Bayly prize for Best Dissertation.The Royal Asiatic Society found Shreyashi's dissertation, entitled "The Accommodation City: Private, Low-Income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai" to be of outstanding merit. Sh…

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) about the importance of pub…

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 abilityreasons for choice of coursea commitment to improving the lives of othersleadership potentialFadi will study the complex ori…

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 ISA Human Rights Section an…

Dr Jon Phillips has co-authored a paper on the relationship between infrastructure and precarity in South Africa, through analysis of a gendered and racialised political economy of energyPhillipsJandPetrova S. 2021.The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Spa…

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 2019.

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 several papers and book c…