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Professor Graham Denyer Willis and Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro Win Grants

6 February 2024

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...

Dr Jostein Hauge Publishes New Book

6 February 2024

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...

Dr Ilias Alami's Latest Article

2 February 2024

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...

Dr Tadashi Hirai publishes new article on values in the capability approach

23 September 2021

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...

Former CDS PhD Student and Gates Scholar Dima Krayem Profiled

10 September 2021

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...

PhD Graduate Shreyashi Dasgupta awarded honourable mention for prestigious Bayly Prize

7 September 2021

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...

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)...

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...

New paper on infrastructure and precarity in South Africa by Dr Jon Phillips

2 February 2021

jon-phillips.jpg 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 energy Phillips J and Petrova S. 2021. The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South...