Thanks to our sponsors – Oxford Development Studies, the Journal of International Development, and the Journal of Development Studies –  for supporting the DSA2025 keynote series on Navigating Crisis: Dangers and Opportunities in Development.

Hear from Jean Drèze, Adomako Ampofo, Jayati Ghosh, Diego Sanchez Ancochea and Yuen Yuen Ang.

Jenni Argent, Doctoral Researcher in Climate Change and Humanitarian Relief, University of Edinburgh, writes about her experience of the DSA Scotland Study Group Symposium.

Ben Radley will discuss his book Disrupted Development in the Congo (DSA–OUP series) at King’s College London on 19/11.

Christian Otchia and Ingrid Kvangraven will join as discussants. A wine reception will follow, and all are welcome.

Would you like to carve out some uninterrupted time for writing and actually write? Plus get some encouragement from, or encourage other colleagues in the DSA?

The DSA’s student network are organsing a session for DSA members to focus on their writing

The DSA will shortly hold an online election for Global South members to select a new representative to the Council.

This election will fill the seat currently held by Tuesday Gichuki, who has completed two impactful terms as one of the two Global South representatives.

In a world where aid budgets are under pressure and global trade faces renewed barriers, Samuel Brazys’s The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Access, and Unequal Globalization, one of the latest in the DSA – OUP book series could not be more timely.

Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia will be discussed in a webinar with GDI’s Tania Bastia and co-author Claudia Calsina.

More information and to register

Applications are now open for PhD studentships within the Development Policy and Practice pathway of the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership.

Join DTP Directors to get application advice in a Q&A webinar on 2 December 2025.

This month the new Community Builder’s Journal – a yearlong guided workbook that combines reflection and practical action, offering monthly themes and weekly prompts to help you build stronger, more connected communities wherever you are.

Catch up on Ha-Joon Chang and Richard Kozul-Wright discussing a New New International Economic Order for a New Global Economy.

Look out for Clare Short, Kevin Watkins, Naila Kabeer, Diane Elson, and Anne Irfan in future lectures. 

Rafeef Ziadah highlights how the destruction of Gaza forms part of a continuous settler-colonial project, where war, reconstruction, and development are entwined, and humanitarian and economic systems reinforce dispossession and sustain occupation.

Devika Dutt, Carolina Alves, Surbhi Kesar and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven come together to uncover the deeply Eurocentric foundations that shape how economists study the world today.

All welcome.

Should we expect a new paradigm for development cooperation, including humanitarian policy, and if so, what form might this take?

Leading  scholars answered these (and other) questions in the newly published joint special issue of two of ODI Global’s journals – Development Policy Review and Disasters.

What are the aspirations and challenges for young people in Kazakhstan? How can culture drive change?

These questions (and more!) answered in the latest Next Generation report and the recent British Council podcast.

Learn how to assess the impact of your programs with the Institute of Development Studies’ five-day in-person course on Contribution Analysis for Impact Evaluation, 12–16 January 2026 at IDS, Brighton, UK.

Gain practical tools to show how your interventions contribute to change.

DSA membership is open to anybody with an interest in development studies and you may join as an individual, or as an institution. Members can be from around the world, and a fee-waiver is currently in place for those living in and citizens of low- and middle-income countries.

Members in the UK may claim tax relief on DSA membership subscriptions they have paid for themselves, via HMRC.