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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DSA2026

Our conference this year is themed "Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain 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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Kings College London, Dept of International Development: Nov 2025

Publications

Dying to breathe: Caste, law and the urban political ecology of manual scavenging in India Karamchedu, A. in: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 

Structural transformation and regional inequality differential in Indonesia Halim, P. R., Yusuf, A. A., Sumner, A. & Purnagunawan, R. M. in: Regional Studies, Regional Science. 

    News stories, Blogs and Media 

    Will China win the AI race? co-authored by Sean Kenji Starrs. Two perspectives featured in The Conversation.

    How Social Science Fiction Could Transform Development Research: Extending our Methodological Horizons – Debating Development Research Laura Camfield and Andy Sumner write how social science fiction is not just an opportunity to cultivate empathy, but also as a robust methodological tool for development research.

      Events 

        Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler-colonialism within the broader historical arc of imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism in the Middle East.