News

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…

Congratulations to British Academy Research Fellow Dr Yan Zhang for being awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the University's Bennett Institute.Based here at the Centre of Development Studies, Dr Zhang will be focusing on sustainable development, public policy and environment/ resource studies which emphasis on China. The full article from the Bennet…

Amir Lebdioui, publishes “Uncovering the High Value of Neglected Minerals: Development Minerals as inputs for industrial development in North Africa”, Extractive Industries and Society. This paper is part of a special issue on Development Minerals based on the Industrial Minerals Research Symposium that took place at the African Union in Addis Abab…

Adam B. Lerner, a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies, was awarded the 2018 Emanuel Miller Prize from St. John's College for his essay 'The Useful Fiction of Identity in International Politics.' The prize recognises achievement in Philosophy of Science with special reference to the behavioural sciences (psychology and social science)…

The Centre of Development Centre runs a weekly Speaker Series, which is attended by all of the centre's students and academic staff, with both external academics and internal PhD students presenting papers.  Please do join us on Thursdays at 15h30 in ARB (room SG1).

We are delighted to let you know that Dr Maryam Tanwir and Dr Nitya Mohan Khemka's final published article (the Version of Record) is now on Taylor & Francis Online. 'Breaking the silicon ceiling: Gender equality and information technology in Pakistan'  can be found online at: (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09718524.2018.1496695)

The Open Day for students interested in coming to Cambridge to study on a postgraduate course will be on Friday 2 November 2018, between 2:30 - 4:00pm.The University of Cambridge Postgraduate Open day is open to current final year students or graduates who are seeking to enter into postgraduate study at Masters or PhD level.  During the day there w…

New book published: New Frontiers of the Capability Approach, with contributions from members of the Centre of Development Studies.Edited by CDS lecturers Dr Flavio Comim and Dr Shailaja Fennell, as well as Dr P. B. Anand, the book explores the new frontiers of the capability approach and its links to human development in three main areas. First, i…

We are delighted to announce that Shreyashi Dasgupta, PhD candidate at CDS, will be presenting her research in a photographic exhibition at the Festival of Ideas.BEDS IN SHEDS’: ARE BANGLADESH AND INDIA ANY DIFFERENT? Saturday 20 October: 11:00am - 5:00pm Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Road, CB3 9DZ Are "Beds in Sheds" urban innovation or m…

We are delighted to announce that Shreyashi Dasgupta, a PhD candidate at CDS, will be presenting her research in a photographic exhibition:‘BEDS IN SHEDS’: ARE BANGLADESH AND INDIA ANY DIFFERENT? Saturday 20 October: 11:00am - 5:00pm Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Road, CB3 9DZ Are "Beds in Sheds" urban innovation or mega-slums? Are these t…

Congratulations to our Centre Director, Dr Ha-Joon Chang, who has been appointed as a member of the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He will sit on the committee from the 1st January, 2019 to 31st December 2021.