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

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People

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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

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Study Groups

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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

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GDI July 2025 digest

Event:

Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine at 2pm, Monday, 15th September. Find out more and register

Publications:

Mindy Park, Chris Foster and Richard Heeks published “Conceptualising urban informality in the platform economy: regulation, legitimisation, value extraction and collective agency” in International Development Planning Review

Sophie van Huellen has an article upcoming in the Journal of Development Studies – ‘Skills Training, Corruption and Organisational Capabilities: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry’, co-authored with Mushtaq Khan and Sumaiya Kabir.

Forthcoming publications by Tanja Bastia:

  • Diverse transnational care: ageing and migration in Bolivia, Policy Press, will be published 22nd July and is available for pre-order, with Claudia Calsina
  • Neglected Intersections: A view from the South’, Comparative Migration Studies, with Lorena Izaguirre, Matthew Walsham, Pedro Pablo Cortés, as part of cluster on Neglected Intersections in South-South, regional migrations, https://www.springeropen.com/collections/NISSRM
  • ‘A Double Marginalization in Migration, Gender, and Sexuality in South-South Regional Migrations’, in Yurdakul, Beaman, Mügge, Scuzzarello, Sunanta (eds), Oxford Handbook on Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality, with Pedro Pablo Cortés Villarreal
  • ‘Unequal Knowledge Production and Circulation in Migration Studies: Feminist Perspectives’in Dahinden and Potts(eds) Reflexivities in Migration Studies: Pitfalls and Alternatives, Springer, with Elenore Kofman

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