DSA Council Pages

To add documents please contact Frances Hill (Email: admin@devstud.org.uk, Tel: 01288 331360). I keep lists of council contact details, and can send out information to all council members if needed. A full list of council members and roles/responsibilities is available on the main DSA website.

Current Business Plan

Our current business plan relates to the financial year from 1 Feb 2007 to 31 Jan 2008 and can be downloaded here. Previous business plans for 2005/06, 2004/05 and 2003/04 are also available.

A copy of the Constitution is available here.

At its meeting on 12th June 2006 the Council of the Development Studies Association agreed to propose three amendments to the Constitution at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday 11th November in the University of Reading. For more details of these proposed amendments, download here (Word document)

AGM 2007

September 18th, University of Sussex

Relevant documents:

• Agenda
• Financial Year 06 - 07 Accounts
• Annual Report 2006 - 07
• President's Report February 07 - November 2007
• Minutes of 2006 AGM (for approval)

AGM 2006

November 11th, University of Reading

Relevant documents:

• Agenda
• Financial Year 05 - 06 Accounts
• Annual Report 2005 - 06
• President's Report February 06 - November 2006
• Constitutional Amendments
• Nominations for Council
• Minutes of 2005 AGM (for approval)

Previous Council meetings

2006

Held at ODI, June 12th 2006 12.30 - 4.30pm, supporting documents below:

• Agenda
• Admin & Finance Report
• Constitutional Amendments tabled
• Overseas Institutional Membership
• Minutes of January 2006 Meeting (approved)

Held at ODI, January 12th 2006 12.30 - 4.30pm, supporting documents below:

• Agenda
• Admin & Finance Report
• Minutes of June 2005 Meeting (approved)

2005

Held at ODI, June 13th 2005 12.30 - 4.30pm, supporting documents below:

• Agenda
• Admin & Finance Report
• JID Report
• Summary of Responses to Constitutional Issues
• Minutes of January Meeting (approved)

Held at ODI, January 11th 2005, 12.30 - 4.30 pm, supporting documents below:

• Agenda
• Admin & Finance Report
• Institutional Membership document
• Study Group Guidelines (new)
• Minutes of June meeting (approved)

2004

AGM

Held at the Annual Conference Saturday 6th November 1.15pm, Church House, Westminster

• Agenda (pdf)
• Annual Report 03-04 (pdf)
• President's Report to October 2004 (pdf)
• Minutes of 2003 AGM (approved)
• Election notes
• Draft Minutes of 2004 AGM

Tuesday 1st June 2004, 12.30pm, Institute for Commonwealth Studies, London in the Menzies Room.

Supporting documentation (to be downloaded):

• Agenda
• Business Plan 04-05
• Allister McGregor's Appeal to HEFCE for 19th May 2004 and letter
• Minutes of last meeting (November 03 - approved)
• Mike Tribe's Benchmarking Submission
• Mike Tribe's CDSC note
• Membership and Finance Report
• FH Report against Business Plan objectives
  

2003

13 November 2003, ODI, London (link to ODI website for directions)

• Approved minutes (pdf)
• Agenda
• Admin and finance report
• Briefing note on 2004 conference
• JID report
• Funding proposal for overseas participants for DSA conference
• Annual conference report
• EADI report

11 September 2003

• Minutes (pdf)
• Agenda
• Admin, finance and membership report
• Paper on proposed changes to institutional membership

5 June 2003

• Minutes
• Agenda
• Admin, finance and membership report
• Accounts: August 2002 to January 2003
• JID report
• RAE, development studies and DSA paper

9 January 2003

Minutes

Minutes of older meetings

Click on the meeting date to open the meeting minutes. If you would like to see any of the other documents relating to the meeting please contact Frances Hill.

2002: January, April, June, November

2001: February, May, September, November

2000: June, September, December