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New DSA website!
Welcome to the new look DSA website which we hope will provide enhanced facilities for members and the development studies community. The site will be added to over the coming months, so do bear with us if you cannot find the information you are looking for.
If you have renewed or joined as a member of the DSA within the last six months and are unable to access the site, please contact us, as we will need to activate your membership on the new site.
Download June 09 Bulletin
June's edition of the Bulletin is available for download at /downloads/4a48d7f764565_2009-06-June-DSA.pdf
If you wish to subscribe or manage your subscription to the bulletin please visit http://www.devstud.org.uk/newsletter/
Payments to DSA
24th April: We are currently experiencing difficulties with our new payment system and this will not be up and running for at least another week. If you wish to renew your membership by Credit Card, please use the old online form available at https://www.secure-server-hosting.com/secutran/secureforms/sh205828/membership-online.htm or contact us by phone. We will then update your record manually. Thanks for your patience.
Annual Conference 2009
"Contemporary Crises and New Opportunities"
University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus
Wednesday September 2nd - Friday September 4th 2009
13 of the 15 Themed Panels are now requesting abstracts. Please download the Open Panel Outlines for more information.
Deadline for submission of abstracts to themed panels is 27th April 2009
Registration is now open for non-credit card payments. Full online payment facilities will be available shortly. To download the Registration Form, please click here.
Early Bird Rates available before 30th May 2009 on Full Conference Fees only. For details of Conference Registration Fees please visit our Conference Pages.
Latest News
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Publicise your policy relevant research
If you have policy relevant research you want to disseminate to a global audience, why not submit to Policy Pointers? A weekly email alert is sent out to subscribers with selected publications. Ideal for Policy Briefs as well as longer reports. To find out more about what Policy Pointers have to say, read the full article.
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Democratization in Africa: Retrospective and Future Prospects - Call for Papers
Policy Forum 2009
AFTER 2015: PROMOTING PRO-POOR POLICY AFTER THE MDGS
DSA/EADI/ActionAid
Call for Academic Papers and Think-pieces
Deadline: 15 May 2009
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The Role of Higher Education in Development
A new spotlight from SciDev.Net, What role for higher education in development? , examines higher education's role in achieving development goals with a series of articles and commentaries written by experts. These set the context of the debate, examine the roles of aid agencies, outline the opportunities and hurdles facing policymakers on the ground and highlight case studies showing how external support can generate tangible results.
A background article, Funding for higher education: facts and figures, describes the changes in donor funding for higher education in developing countries over the last 50 years. In recent years, higher education has returned to the aid agendas of major donors. There is now greater acceptance amongst the development community of the economic benefits of higher education, which include creating public knowledge, exchanging skills between industry and academia and developing better technology.
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