School of International Development - UEA: International Development

The School of International Development** (DEV) at the University of East Anglia is a leading global centre of excellence in research and teaching in international development. The School comprises a lively and dedicated community of about 35 lecturers and professors, 15 associated researchers, 250 undergraduates, 150 taught postgraduate and 80 PhD students. With a world-class research reputation and an effective interdisciplinary ethos, our School applies economic, social, political and natural sciences to the study of international development with special emphasis on human, social and environmental change and poverty alleviation.

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Excellent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 news for DEV

In the 2008 RAE, we are in the top three 'development studies' departments in Britain; a 5-star department in RAE 2001 terms. As well as submitting all of our academic staff, over 80% of our research outputs were deemed to be at least internationally recognised. Click here for more on DEV research.

Please do make contact with us, we would like to hear from you. On this page you can read about open days, or general inquiries or admissions. 

Open Days

Undergraduate Open Day
The University will be holding its next Undergraduate Open day on 3rd July 2009
 
Postgraduate Open Day
The University will be holding its next Postgraduate Open Day in January / February 2010

General Enquiries

Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Development Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom

Telephone +44 (0)1603 592329
Fax: +44 (0)1603 451999

Email: dev.general@uea.ac.uk

Admissions Enquiries

DEV Admissions
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Development Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ UK

Telephone +44 (0)1603 591393

Email: pgdev@uea.ac.uk

How to Find Us

For information on how to find DEV please click here.

Our approach - with the Overseas Development GroupThe School of International Development is dedicated to the study and teaching of the challenges faced by the poorer or more marginalized communities and regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Apart from joint degrees, all our degrees are taught by our own academic staff. The School of International Development is profoundly committed to inter/multi-disciplinary research and excellence in teaching. Our values and innovative approach have been developed over a forty year period, bringing together researchers and students from different disciplines (economists, social scientists, natural resource scientists) into close-knit research areas and teaching teams. We are particularly proud of our research reputation; according to a recent study, in three top journals, the School of International Development is one of the most highly cited academic institutions.

We are also particularly proud of our direct engagement with communities, individuals and policy in developing countries - and we bring back this experience directly into our teaching via the Overseas Development Group (ODG), an in-house charitable organisation.

The Head of School is Dr Bruce Lankford. His welcome page and contact details are here and his faculty webpage is here.

There are separate alphabetical listings of academic staff, administrative staff and current and recent postgraduate researchers in DEV/ODG. Permanent faculty staff and ODG fellows/researchers are included in the academic staff listing along with short research summaries and links to personal web-pages.

Summaries of contact details and links to personal web-pages for permanent faculty and ODG fellows/researchers are also available.