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Dr Shailaja Fennell has been awarded a major contract as the Principal Investigator on a Department for International Development commissioned series of research studies on Activity Based Learning (ABL) in India. The studies will look closely at not just what children learn, but how they learn. This includes gaining understanding of the "black box"…

Dr Shailaja Fennell, is a member of successful Smart Villages team, led by Sir Brian Heap and based at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the UK. The Smart Villages initiative (running over 2016-19) has been granted the sum of £3 million, jointly funded by Cambridge Malaysian Education and Development Trust (CMEDT) and the Templeton World …

The Central Asian Spring Festival Navroz took place on 11 March 2015 at the Cambridge Guildhall. It was organized by the Cambridge Central Asia Forum and the Centre of Development Studies together with the Cambridge University Kazakh Society, Cambridge University Uzbek Society and Cambridge University Azerbaijan Society. Official representatives fr…

MPhil Alumni Sarine Arslanian currently interning in Jakarta at the Centre for Public Policy Transformation (Transformasi} that recently partnered with the New Cities Foundation wrote a blog post for New Cities Foundation in preparation of this year's biggest urban development summit - the New Cities Summit - that will be held in Jakarta in June.Bl…

This is a student initiative of current Harvard undergraduates and brings together 450 of the brightest young minds across India to create a tradition of research-focussed policy making in India. The list of speakers and topics can be found athttp://www.harvardindiainitiative.com/#!speakers/c187m

Fairtrade - narratives, facts, and agricultural wage workers: findings from research in Ethiopia and Uganda Development StudiesLittle Hall Lecture SeriesWednesday 19 November 20144- 5.30pmLittle HallSidgwick Site between lecture block A and the Faculty of ClassicsGuest speakerProfessor Christopher CramerTitleFairtrade - narratives, facts, and a…

Rural electrification and development in South Korea (1965 - 1979) in Energy for Sustainable Developmenthttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097308261400091XAbstractIn fifteen years, South Korea went from providing only 12% of rural households with electricity to providing 98% of rural households with electricity for lighting and produ…

On Friday, 4 May the Alison Richard Building was formally opened by Professor Dame Alison Richard DBE.

Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being Edited by David Alexander ClarkWith a Foreword by David HulmeISBN 9780230360563 Palgrave Macmillan April 2012In contrast to previous attempts to examine adaptation to climate change in developing countries, the authors focus on how individuals and broader social groups adjus…

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In addition to her position as an affiliated lecturer in Centre of Development Studies, from 1st October 2012 Dr Alexandra Winkels will be working part-time for four years as the Institute Teaching Officer and Academic Director in Development Studies for the Cambridge University Institute for Continuing Education at Madingley Hall. As part of this …

Brian Eno has a new album out. How best to explain it? By hooking up with radical economist Ha-Joon Chang to debate everything from finance to free jazz and dogs in parks. Caspar Llewellyn Smith joins in.‘Let’s find a place in between’ … Eno and Chang in conversation. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the GuardianRead More....

Dr Jasdeep Sandhu met Dr Michael Kuczynksi at High Table, Pembroke College and Dr Alexandra Winkels at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge.

Ha-Joon Chang has been voted the third most influential economist in the Prospect World Thinkers 2013 poll (overall rank 18), after Paul Krugman (overall rank 5) and Amartya Sen (overall rank 7). The full information is at:http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/world-thinkers-2013/