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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…

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://…