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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DSA2025

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

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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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Blog

Doing integration research on temporary labor migration in Singapore

Doing integration research on temporary labor migration in Singapore

Yoga Prasetyo was highly commended in the DSA Masters Dissertation prize and writes for us about the personal and intellectual process behind doing his dissertation.

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Why public engagement on aid has never been more critical

Why public engagement on aid has never been more critical

If the aid community wants to defend, improve, and future-proof the system, public engagement must be central to that effort. We look at how data on public attitudes to aid can help.

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Towards a development humanities

Towards a development humanities

David Lewis asks if it's time to imagine development studies in different ways and encourages us to consider the idea of what we can learn from the humanities.

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