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Fernando Bucheli, one of our PhD students, has recently won the Kuklys Prize at the Annual Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) Conference 2018 for the best conference paper by a graduate student.The conference's main theme was  'Human Development and Social Inclusion in an Urbanising World'. The winning paper is entitled 'Mapping ma…

Matthew Mahmoudi is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies (POLIS) and the recipient of the Jo Cox Studentship from Pembroke College. Matt talks with the College's Master, Lord Chris Smith, about the role academia and politics can play in responding to refugee crises. Hear more from Matt and Lord Smith's discussion on the Declarations…

Georgios Marinos (MPhil in Development Studies, at the Centre of Development Studies) and Peter Andreas Nielsen (MPhil in Economics, at the Department of Economics) are leading a project from the University Cambridge that aims to bring together Danish graduate students worldwide to author the first textbook on Development Studies for high school st…

A massive congratulations to our academics Dr Abdelrahman and Dr Fennell for winning not just one, but two Student Led Teaching Awards each! The Cambridge University Students' Union Student Led Teaching Awards nominees are chosen by students within the University to recognise outstanding teaching and support by their academics, falling within eight…

Booking is still open for the Cambridge Capability Conference.Please visit this link to ensure you reserve a place to this event.There are 7 exclusive places remaining to join us at St. Catharine's College for a formal dinner on the evening of the 22nd June. Should you wish to attend this, please ensure you indicate this on the online booking form …

We are delighted to inform you that the bookings for the 3rd Cambridge Capability Conference are now open.Please visit this link to ensure you reserve a place to this event.There are 20 exclusive places to join us at St. Catharine's College for a formal dinner on the evening of the 22nd June. Should you wish to attend this, please ensure you indica…

Adam B. Lerner, a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies, was awarded the 2018 Northedge Prize from Millennium: Journal of International Studies for his essay 'The Uses and Abuses of Victimhood Nationalism in International Politics.' The essay establishes a theoretical framework for comparative analyses of invocations of victimhood in i…

Congratulations to Ms Tessa Laing and Mr Dillon Muhly-Alexander who have been awarded the GATES Cambridge scholarship to commence their programmes this October.Ms Laing, from New Zealand, will be commencing the PhD programme focusing on interactions between local government, citizens and international non-governmental organisations in Gulu and the …

During the week of February 21st Dr Shailaja Fennel and Dr Richard Sidebottom from the Centre of Development Studies took part in the official launch of the TIGR2ESS (Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies) research project in New Delhi, India.TIGR2ESS spans multiple disciplines across Cambri…

"ON CAPABILITY INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT" CALL FOR PAPERSCambridge has been home to many researchers working on the Capability Approach. In 2016 we launched a new series of annual capability conferences along similar lines as the early capability conferences that we initiated back in 2001. The main objective was to recreate the i…

It has been almost two years since the murder of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge student, in Cairo. As we approach this anniversary, we are no nearer to knowing the truth of what happened to this promising post-graduate, tortured and killed while pursuing wholly legitimate academic research. Once again, we recognise the deep pain experienced by Giulio's…

It has been almost two years since the murder of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge student, in Cairo. As we approach this anniversary, we are no nearer to knowing the truth of what happened to this promising post-graduate, tortured and killed while pursuing wholly legitimate academic research. Once again, we recognise the deep pain experienced by Giulio's…

We are very pleased to announce that a new online alumni platform is available on the Development Studies website. Created by Sebastian Manhart and Will Fairbairn, who completed the MPhil programme here at the Centre in 2015, by joining you will be connected to over 300 alumni from over 60 different countries. This is great way to share news, relev…

A team from the Centre of Development Studies recently made the second in a series of trips to Rwanda as part of an ongoing effort to establish research partnerships with the University of Rwanda (UR). With the valued assistance of the Alborada Research fund, the Rwanda UK Goodwill Organisation (RUGO) and Professor Albert Bizozi of UR, Jolly Dusabe…

Generously supported by the Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA), the Department is delighted to announce the first winners of the CRIA prize for the highest average mark on an MPhil course in 2016-17.The Cambridge Review of International Affairs is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original scholarship on international affairs. I…