ODID Oxford December: jobs courses and research
Plus check out ODID’s climate news for December.
UNREST: A new agenda for African film heritage restitution
ODID is delighted to announce the success of a recent bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The new AHRC-funded UNREST project will include an international team of scholars, archivists and filmmakers researching African film heritage restitution, led by Dr Dan Hodgkinson (ODID), Professor Erica Carter (KCL), and Dr Samar Abdelrahman (Liverpool University). Find out more
New book examines failures of educational reform in developing countries
In Fixing Governance from Below: Why Short Route of Accountability Cannot Solve the Education Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press), Professor Masooda Bano calls for a fundamental shift in how we approach educational reform. Find out more
New ‘Sources’ special issue on Revolutionary Cinema in Africa
In 2022, the symposium ‘Visions of Life’ was held at ODID. A new special issue in Sources. Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies on Revolutionary Cinema in Africa, co-edited by Dan Hodgkinson, draws from this symposium. Find out more
Blogs & media
Juliana Quigua Chinchilla, Marta Favara and Alan Sanchez have a Young Lives blog on The challenges of measuring stress in a longitudinal study: lessons from Round 7 of Young Lives.
Alessandra Enrico-Headrington (DPhil candidate, Migration Studies) has written a blog for the Refugee Studies Centre: Displaced Venezuelans’ experiences of navigating temporary protection in Latin America
Jakob Dirksen (OPHI) has written for LSE Inequalities: Why the G20 should harmonise efforts to measure poverty and well-being better.
Rocco Zizzamia writes (with Emily Beam, Lasse Brune, Stefan Dercon, Dean Karlan, Ashley Pople and Christopher Udry) on Scaling poverty alleviation: How group coaching makes graduation programmes more cost-effective for VoxDev.
Courses
Applications are now open for the short course on Palestine Refugees and International Law, run by the Refugee Studies Centre. This will be held in Beirut from 13-14 March 2026. This intensive two-day course will explore the case of Palestinian refugees within the broader framework of international human rights and international law. Find out more
Vacancies
Qualitative Researcher in British and European Politics: ODID is recruiting a Qualitative Researcher in British and European Politics who will report to Professor Masooda Bano, and will be a member of a research group working under a European Research Council Advanced Grant titled ‘Choosing Islamic Conservatism’. Find out more
Publications
Albertone, B., El Kadi, T.H., and Lebdioui, A. (2025) ‘Development Rethought or Forgotten? A Review of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2024’, Development and Change, doi: 10.1111/dech.70030.
Alkire, S., Evans, M. and Foster, J. (2025) ‘Beyond GDP: What multidimensional measures of poverty and well-being add to dashboards and composite indices’, United Nations Committee for Development Policy Background Paper No. 60.
Alkire, S., Roa-Clavijo, F., Shen, Y. and Zhang, X. (2025) ‘Accurate Poverty Targeting in China’, OPHI Briefings 61, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Mishra, R., Selden, L. and Suppa, N. (2025) ‘A methodological note on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2025: Changes over time results for 88 countries’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 63, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Mishra, R., Selden, L. and Suppa, N. (2025) ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2025: Disaggregation results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 62, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Mishra, R., Selden, L. and Suppa, N. (2025) ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2025: Country results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 61, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Favara, M., Tartakowsky, A., Quigua, J., Sánchez, A., Curi-Quinto, K., Aquino, A.I. and Carrera, S. (2025) ‘Collecting Hair Samples to Measure Cortisol in the Young Lives Study: Protocols and Fieldwork Results’. Young Lives Technical Note.
Ford, K. and Quigua, J. (2025) ‘Navigating Crises and Building Resilience: Supporting Young People’s Mental Health Across the Life Course’. Young Lives Policy Brief.
Nogales, R., Dirksen, J. and Alkire, S. (2025). ‘Advancing inclusive sustainable development by measuring poverty and wellbeing better’, Policy Brief for G20 and T20 South Africa.
Selden, L. (2025). ‘A disproportionate burden: Children living in multidimensional poverty by the Global MPI 2025’, OPHI Briefings 62, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Villegas Plá, B. (2025) ‘A shared horizon? The politics of care in South America (2020–24)’, International Journal of Care and Caring (online ahead of print 2025), https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2025D000000145
Zeng, W. (2025) ‘Actors on the Ground: A Missing Dimension in China’s Belt and Road Initiative’, The Journal of Development Studies, 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2557933
Collaborative Policy Brief – UNICEF, Save the Children, Young Lives, UNFPA and YOUNGO (2025) ‘Recommendations for the Global Goal on Adaptation: Ensuring a Successful and Meaningful Outcome for Children at COP30’.