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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IDD Birmingham October news

New publications

Nic Cheeseman and ex-IDDer Cary Peiffer published a new “How to” guide to Anti-corruption messaging with CIPE, which explains how to maximise impact while minimising the risk that campaigns backfire.

Nic Cheeseman has published two new articles on the Kenyan elections of 2022 in a new special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies. “The battle for Central” addressed themes of urbanization, ethnicity and new forms of citizenship, while “Has Kenya Democratized” addresses the performance of key institutions during the poll.

Niheer Dasandi, Slava Jankin, and Dafni Kalatzi Pantera (with Kim van Daalen et al) published, “The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action”, The Lancet Public Health

Kairu, A., Mbeche, R., Kotut, K., & Kairo, J. (2024) ‘From centralization to decentralization: Evolution of forest policies and their implications on mangrove management in Kenya’ Forest Policy and Economics, 168, 103290.

Huxham, M., Kairu, A., Lang’at, J. K., Kivugo, R., Mwafrica, M., Huff, A., & Shilland, R. (2023) ‘Rawls in the mangrove: Perceptions of justice in nature‐based solutions projects’, People and Nature, 5(5), 1497-1511.

Podcasts

New episodes of two awesome podcasts coming out of IDD are out now:

Other project news

Nic Cheeseman was elected to the Board of the Afrobarometer, the pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that has changed the face of analysis of African politics through its public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy, and society.

Niheer Dasandi has been appointed the Chair of the Public and Political Engagement Working Group of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change – a Wellcome Trust-funded global inter-disciplinary research collaboration.

Anne Kairu attended ICLD’s Local Democracy Academy, Sweden: 2024 Theme – Research and practice for empowering local democracy, from local initiatives to global transformation, 26-29 August 2024. Her proposal was the best in the Climate Action Thematic Area

Fiona Nunan won the Reviewer of the Year Prize by the editors of  Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE)