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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DSA2026

Our conference this year is themed "Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World"

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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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TIDE Centre launches Nature’s Intelligence Studio at COP30: The TIDE Centre has launched the Nature’s Intelligence Studio, a new programme to translate principles observed in biological systems into technologies that support the energy transition and wider sustainability goals, while ensuring fair benefit-sharing with communities in biodiverse regions. Find out more

Climate change: Choices for displaced people: The latest issue of Forced Migration Review focuses on ‘Climate change: Choices for displaced people’. Read the issue here.

Can Hurricane Melissa lead us to real change at COP30? Carlos Alvarado Quesada (former president of Costa Rica, 2018-2022) and Sabina Alkire (Director, OPHI) asks if Hurricane Melissa can remind us to get serious about poverty reduction in a raging climate. Can the path of a record-breaking hurricane lead us to real change at COP30?

New titles:

Why fighting poverty means tackling climate change head-on. Niall Maher, Ricardo Nogales, Beatriz Jambrina-Canseco, Sabina Alkire (all OPHI) and Nabamallika Dehingia (UNDP) write for the OECD’s Development Matters.

Measuring the overlap between climate hazards and multidimensional poverty: A global sub-national assessment’, by Alkire, S., Dehingia, N., Jambrina-Canseco, B., Maher, N. and Nogales, R. in OPHI Research in Progress