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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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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CSGD October news

New publications

View of Teacher Professional Development @scale: Achieving Quality and Sustainability in Zambia. This paper presents a conceptual model which explains the challenges of providing high quality sustainable, teacher professional development at scale. It provides a framework to support holistic thinking at a systemic level, applicable across different systems.

Winners and losers: Class dynamics and social protection in Pakistan – Zahid Mumtaz, Keetie Roelen, International Journal of Social Welfare. This study responds to the recent call in the literature for the interrogation and understanding of how social protection is accessed and distributed among various groups and classes of society. It explores who stands to win and lose from social protection through the lens of social class using the case study of Pakistan, where the elite class holds significant sway over decision-making. 

Podcast: Poverty Unpacked

All too often, discussions about poverty are focused on lack of income and material deprivation. Rarely do we hear about the stigma associated with living in poverty, about the stress of making ends meet or about how policies that aim to reduce poverty can actually make matters worse. The Poverty Unpacked podcast and blog explores how poverty affects the mind and emotions, human connections and the wider society, and what can be done to change this.

Episode #38: Poverty is expensive – Fair by Design explores the reality that when you have less to spend, life costs more. In this episode, Maria Booker, Head of Policy at Fair by Design explains the campaign that tries to tackle the poverty premium, both by engaging with politicians, policy makers and the private sector to argue for a fairer system and by trialling new way of doing business to show that alternatives are possible.