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

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DSA2025

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

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ODID Oxford April 2025 digest

Highlights

Young Liveshas released headline findings from Round 7 of the 20+ year study. These latest results reveal the ongoing impacts of climate change, conflict and Covid-19 on young people in poor countries around the world.

Four ODID research projects have been shortlisted for the University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2025: Young Lives, OPHI, OxValue.AI, and the Oxford SDG Impact Lab.

The teams at OPHI and Young Lives both won awards at the University’s 2025 Social Sciences Impact Awards, in the categories ‘Scaling & Sustaining Impact’ and ‘Developing Impact’ respectively. 

Last week, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruled on the rights of Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation (PIAV) in the case of the Tagaeri and Taromenane peoples vs. Ecuador, in a case in which Professor Laura Rival gave expert testimony in 2022. Read more

Congratulations to MPhil student David R. Salmon, who has been awarded the prestigious Harry Hodson Prize by the journal The Round Table.

Social media – ODID on Bluesky

ODID and ODID-affiliated centres are now on Bluesky. Follow us at @odid-qeh.bsky.social, @ophioxford.bsky.social, @yloxford.bsky.social, @refugeestudies.bsky.social, @tidecentre.bsky.social, @oxfordsdglab.bsky.social, @oxfordcsae.bsky.social

Blogs

A new ODID blog by Séverine Deneulin draws on a special issue of Oxford Development Studies which seeks to better understand the relationships between inequality and environmental sustainability, with a focus on Latin America.

‪Last month, the UK Home Office changed immigration staff guidance on assessing the good character requirement in nationality applications. In a new ILPA blog, Catherine Briddick explains how the new guidance disadvantages women.

Publications

Christopher S Adam (with Lisa Martin and Douglas Gollin) (2025) Transport Frictions and the Pass-Through of Global Price Shocks in a Spatial Model of Low-Income Countries, IMF Working Paper No. 2025/039, 14 February, doi: 10.5089/9798400298738.001.

Corneliu Bjola (2025) ‘Diplomacy as Stagecraft: Ambush, Performance, and the Ethics of the Trump–Zelenskyy Encounter’, Ethics & International Affairs, 17 March.

Nikita Sud (2025) ‘Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot’, World Development, 190, 106906, doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106906.

Helidah Ogude-Chambert (2025) ‘Being Deathworthy: The UK Government and Media’s Industrialization of Black Death at Sea’, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, doi: 10.1017/rep.2025.22.

Forthcoming events

The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) is hosting a webinar on the transformative power of official multidimensional poverty statistics for social development. Directors of government statistics departments across the globe, and organisations, will share their experiences of how MPIs that are rigorous, transparent, and regularly updated have policy traction – and why this matters, especially in fiscally-constrained times.’

Podcasts

The latest Young Lives podcast focuses on findings from the 7th Survey Round. Listen here.

Listen to the Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025 on ‘The Politics of Immigration and the Politics of Identity’ with Kenin Malik (writer, lecturer and broadcaster) on SoundCloud.

The past term’s seminars from the Refugee Studies Centre are available on SoundCloud here.