Our Aims and Objectives

We are the UK association for all those who research, study and teach global development issues

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What is Development Studies

What is development studies and decolonising development.

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Our Members

We have around 1,000 members, made up of individuals and around 40 institutions

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Governance

Find out about our constitution, how we are run and meet our Council

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People

Meet our Council members and other staff who support the running of DSA

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About

The DSA Conference is an annual event which brings together the development studies community

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DSA2024

Our conference this year is themed "Social justice and development in a polarising world"

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Past Conferences

Find out about our previous conferences

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Study Groups

Our Study Groups offer a chance to connect with others who share your areas of interest

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Students and ECRs

Students and early career researchers are an important part of our community

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Publications

Our book series with OUP and our relationship with other publishers

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North-South Research

A series of workshops exploring North-South interdisciplinary research with key messages and reports

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Membership Directory

Find out who our members are, where they are based and the issues they work on

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DSA Council statement of solidarity with ongoing protests in the US

The Council of the UK Development Studies Association stands in solidarity with protestors condemning the killing of George Floyd by the US police, and with the Black Lives Matter Movement globally. Systemic racism is not just an issue in the US, we have also seen it in the UK, through the Windrush deportations, fire at Grenfell Tower and emergent health disparities related to Covid-19.

We recognise that the teaching, research and practice of global development has itself been implicated in the reproduction of racial and other forms of inequality. We commit ourselves to working to change this, and combatting racism wherever it occurs.