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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DSA2025

Our conference this year is themed "Navigating crisis: dangers and opportunities in development"

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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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Decolonising Development

The initiatives we are undertaking that work towards decolonising development studies

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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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News

  • Amogh Dhar Sharma has won a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a project that explores the role of opinion polls and psephology in Indian democracy. Read more.
  • Watch a video introducing Amir Lebdioui’s new open access book, Survival of the Greenest, which explores how nations can adjust to the new dynamics of structural transformation induced by climate change.
  • Sabina Alkire and Marta Favara were interviewed by the FT about the consequences of food poverty and the importance of finding powerful new policies to support people who live amid ‘forgotten’ wars and droughts.
  • The latest issue of Forced Migration Review explores how digital technologies are being used by and against forcibly displaced people. Read a blog post introducing the issue.

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