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DSA Announces the launch of the New Ideas Initiative

The NEW IDEAS INITIATIVE is an exciting new funding opportunity for researchers to be awarded small-scale funding for exploring new ideas, collaborations and knowledge sharing within the international development sector.

The Initiative is a component of the Development Studies Association's (DSA) Accountable Grant with the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The Initiative will award 5-8 small grants, not exceeding £8,000 each, to successful applicants, depending on the portfolio selected. Activities should take place between March and June 2012.

New Ideas Initiative Aims

The overarching goal of the Initiative is to ensure development policy and practice has a transformative and sustained effect on people's agency and lives. In order to meet this goal the Initiative aims to build on the diversity of existing research programmes and activities that presently are being undertaken, and to identify emerging issues, new approaches and new partnerships.

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New DSA President

Professor Geof Wood, University of Bath – has stepped up to the role of DSA President and we are delighted to welcome him! Read the President's message.


DSA Bulletin

DSA's December 2011 Bulletin is available to download here

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Journal of International Development accepted in ISI

The DSA has great pleasure in announcing that its journal - the Journal of International Development, published by Wiley-Blackwell - has been accepted for coverage under the ISI Social Sciences Citation Index.

They will start coverage with the current volume, so the first official Impact Factor will be the 2011 Impact Factor (counting citations made in 2011 to papers published in 2009 and 2010). This will be released in June 2012.

  • January 2012 Issue now free online
  • Virtual Issue FREE Online - Resilience in an Unequal Capitalist World
    By Andrew Fischer and Uma Kothari
    This Journal of International Development (JID) Virtual Issue has been designed to coincide with the EADI-DSA conference in September 2011 on the theme of “Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty: New Values, Voices and Alliances for Increased Resilience” The papers in this special issue have been selected from past issues of the Journal, dating from 2000 to 2010, on the subject of resilience.


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