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CDS Office Closed Until Further NoticeFollowing 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 Coronavirus pandemic at the moment, …

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 MESA Dissertation Awards wer…

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

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/

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, Madleina Daehnhardt's monograph, "Migration, Development and Social Change in the Himalayas" has been released with Routledge in August 2019.https://www.routledge.com/Migration-Development-and-Social-Change-in-the-Himalayas-An-Ethnographic/Daehnhardt/p/book/9780367150969The book teases out the reasons for, an…

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 administrator Jonathan Virgo, until th…

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 in Copenhagen, the Nordic h…

Dr Denyer Willis has published a new article in the American Political Science Review titled 'Legitimacy in Criminal Governance: Managing a Drug Empire from Behind Bars'.The abstract and full article can be found here.

Congratulations to Drs Tanwir and Sidebottom who have just published in the Journal of International Women's Studies. The article, 'The Trade and Gender Nexus in Pakistan', 'investigates the stories of Pakistani women as workers, farmers and entrepreneurs across a range of economic sectors'. The full abstract and article can be found here: https://…

We are delighted to announce the new publication by Dr Maryam Tanwir and Dr Richard Sidebottom: The trade and gender nexus in Pakistan.  Please find it on: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol20/iss2/10/

We would like to congratulate our very own PhD candidate Matthew Mahmoudi, who received the 'Social Impact Award' from Vice Chancellor Professor StephenToope. The Vice-Chancellor's Social Impact Awards are presented every year to students who show exceptional achievement and commitment to positive social change. Candidates are nominated by anyone b…

Our new academic Dr Jon Phillips has published an article in African Affairs: “Who’s in charge of Sino-African resource politics? Situating African state agency in Ghana” African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society and is the top ranked journal in African Studies. This article is available for free for a limited time here.

The Centre will be closed from Friday 21st December and will reopen on Wednesday 2nd January, 2019.Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of Building, owning & belonging: from assisting owner-driven housing reconstruction to co-production in Sri Lanka, India and beyond, edited by Jaime Royo-Olid, a CDS PhD candidate and Dr Shailaja Fennell. The book can be downloaded for free in PDF format from the EU Publications Office webs…