Bring your bold, critical ideas to one of our 100 chosen panels. We encourage submissions from academics, practitioners, students,  for online or in-person presentation at DSA 2026 UCL Dublin.

Submit short summaries of your ideas and research by December 29 for conference on July 8-10.

Are you a DSA Global South member?

Nominate yourself or someone else to be a GS representative on the DSA Council and help shape the future of membership for those in the Global South.

A call for papers for a special issue in the Journal of Development Perspectives on the geography of women’s labour force participation.

Deadline extended to 22 December 2025.

In consultation with student / ECR members, the DSA has launched a fund to provide financial support for activities organised by members for student / ECR support.

Institutional members of the DSA are entitled to a PGT or PGR representative joining our student decision-making group.

We have six institutes looking for a rep. Find out which institutes don’t have a rep and how to get involved.

And all students are welcome to join the DSA regardless of institutional membership.

Matt Barlow’s new book, Taxing for Development, offers timely insights into Argentina’s fierce battles over tax and financing development.

Examining the 2008 “tax revolt” over export taxes, Barlow argues that taxation is a deeply political and ideological process.

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 and ECR network are organising a session for DSA members to focus on their writing

If your department is looking for a meaningful, visible way to engage with the global development community have you considered hosting the DSA conference?

What are the ground rules for partnership in a fragmented world?

Join BISA’s Global Politics and Development working group with DSA Council member Emma Mawdsley and Andy Sumner from King’s College London and more.

The IPEG Book Prize Committee announced that the 2025 prize has been given to Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism in the OUP-DSA book series.

Learn the secrets to successful academic publishing! Our recent session offered 5 practical tips from Development in Practice editors on everything from journal fit to navigating peer review.

Did you miss it? The video recording, presentation slides, and a Q&A document are all available on the post for you to download now.

Human-Nature: Relations, Resilience, Reciprocity report guides creative practitioners, researchers, civil society and cultural organisations collaborating with Indigenous communities on research, artistic or cultural climate projects in Malaysia.

Plus Next Generation Brazil draws on a large-scale survey of over 3,200 young people exploring what matters most to Brazil’s youth.

Professor Marcel do Nascimento Botelho has been honoured with a prestigious award at the University of Wolverhampton Alumni Awards 2025.

The awards celebrate alumni from across the globe for outstanding contributions in fields such as business innovation, humanitarian work, and professional excellence.

WICID will host a panel discussion with the authors of a new book on shifting power in aid.

Join Shonali Banerjee, Anne-Meike Fechter and Thabani Mutambasere to explore ‘horizontal development’.

An in-person conference at the University of Manchester seeks to answer this question across three specific themes: new geopolitics of global Development; global development architecture in polycrisis; thinking from a global development perspective.

Deadline 3 December.

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 is now available online, produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.

With each day, hope seems a little harder to find and challenges seem to multiply writes IDS’s Peter Taylor, which makes it all the more important to continue seeking hope together.

Peter shares reflections on the EADI blog.

Powering communities for decades, and still relevant today, the Micro-Hydro Design Manual is now open access!

It’s a trusted guide to small-scale, sustainable energy: practical, transformative, and free for all.

Conventional methodological approaches to pressing development concerns so often fall short.

In a new reflection paper, Andy Sumner and Laura Camfield propose social science fiction (SSF) as an opportunity to cultivate empathy, but also as a robust methodological tool for development research.

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.