The DSA2021 annual conference will take place fully online due to the ongoing global pandemic. Read the conference theme and then submit a panel via the website before 30 November 2020.

Three new convenors have taken over the co-ordination of the Women and Development DSA Study Group recently, find out who they are and what they have planned for the new group.

This workshop is sponsored by the Migration, Refugees and Asylum research group at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and the DSA Study Group on Migration, Development and Social Change.
11 November, 1pm-2:30pm (GMT) via Zoom.

Watch the online launch event of the new DSA Study Group Decolonising Development.

Send in your applications before 15th January 2021 to seek funding for collective research and engagement events involving and co-ordinated by early career researchers (including PhD students). Read all the criteria, terms and conditions and how to apply online.

We ask all the Heads of Centres of DSA affiliated institutions in the UK to nominate the highest scoring masters’ dissertation (MA or MSc) awarded on their “international development” or related subject programmes in 2020. Deadline for nominations: 18 December 2020.

12 November 2020 – Covid-19 and development: the politics of uncertainty
10 December 2020 – Covid-19 and development: queer & feminist perspectives in South Asia

13 November 2020 – Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World
20 November 2020 – Why Transformative Social Policy and Development Matter: lessons of COVID-19 in Africa (provisional title) focused on South Africa and Nigeria.

Apply for a place on this online short course developed by the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality programme, led by Prof Caren Levy at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL. Deadline for applications: 3rd December 2020

11 November – Migrants and refugees facing Covid-19: UK and global concerns

10 November – François Roubaud and Isabelle Guérin on COVID-19 and the role of RCTs in development
24 November – Daria Taglioni on international trade and supply chains post COVID-19

11 November – “Inclusive Development” with Professor Joyeeta Gupta
Past dialogues:
Lockdown challenges for land reform beneficiaries: South Africa
Domestic Workers’ Activism during the Pandemic Crisis in Latin America

The Open University is offering Arts and Humanities Research Council funding through the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership for full- or part-time PhD studentships starting October 2021.

Vacancies for a Research associate and a Web developer
Closing dates: 2nd December and until position is filled.

Research Programme Officer, School of Health Sciences
Closing date: 8th November 2020