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Development Studies Association

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The UK based membership organisation for those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development. #XDissenter you can find us on LinkedIn

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#DSA2025 renewed calls for academic solidarity and action on Gaza. ✍️ Read more, sign the statement, or write your own: 🔗 buff.ly/40A2zUU

#DSA2025 renewed calls for academic solidarity and action on Gaza.
✍️ Read more, sign the statement, or write your own:
🔗 buff.ly/40A2zUU
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Why public engagement on aid has never been more critical. In our blog, we reflect on recent DSA webinars and share insights from Development Engagement Lab on how values-based messaging can help build lasting public support for aid. 📖 buff.ly/t6bB1z0

Why public engagement on aid has never been more critical.

In our blog, we reflect on recent DSA webinars and share insights from <a href="/DevEngageLab/">Development Engagement Lab</a> on how values-based messaging can help build lasting public support for aid.

📖 buff.ly/t6bB1z0
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#DSA2025 hosts Centre for Development Studies actively engage with University of Bath’s Decolonising Knowledge research cluster. 💭 Many members are rethinking how development knowledge is generated and shared. 🔍 Read our Spotlight on CDS Bath here: buff.ly/GW1EKCs

#DSA2025 hosts <a href="/CDS_Bath/">Centre for Development Studies</a> actively engage with <a href="/UniofBath/">University of Bath</a>’s Decolonising Knowledge research cluster.
💭 Many members are rethinking how development knowledge is generated and shared.
🔍 Read our Spotlight on CDS Bath here:
 buff.ly/GW1EKCs
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Join DSAIreland on 3rd (online) & 4th (in-person at Maynooth University) September 2025 for the DSAI Autumn School. Theme: Indigenous Knowledge and Practice: An Optimistic Response to the Global Funding Crisis? Register here: buff.ly/u9vYPIV

Join <a href="/IrelandDSA/">DSAIreland</a> on 3rd (online) &amp; 4th (in-person at Maynooth University) September 2025 for the DSAI Autumn School.

Theme: Indigenous Knowledge and Practice: An Optimistic Response to the Global Funding Crisis?

Register here: buff.ly/u9vYPIV
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Apply now for a fully-funded scholarship to attend the Women Deliver 2026 Conference in Melbourne, Australia—a global stage for advancing gender equality and youth advocacy. Details: opd.to/4kS6wW5 | Deadline: Aug 10

Apply now for a fully-funded scholarship to attend the Women Deliver 2026 Conference in Melbourne, Australia—a global stage for advancing gender equality and youth advocacy.

Details: opd.to/4kS6wW5 | Deadline: Aug 10
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📊🎉🎓 SAPD at Reading Uni has been ranked 1st for salaries of graduates in Agriculture, food and related studies in The Telegraph’s analysis of Department for Education data on the earnings of first degree graduates after five years (published June 2025).

📊🎉🎓 <a href="/UniRdg_SAPD/">SAPD at Reading Uni</a> has been ranked 1st for salaries of graduates in Agriculture, food and related studies in The Telegraph’s analysis of Department for Education data on the earnings of first degree graduates after five years (published June 2025).
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UK aid to Nigeria: Partnership or paternalism? The International Development Committee has launched a new inquiry into the UK’s development relationship with Nigeria — a rising power facing major challenges. 🔍 Read more: buff.ly/e1cFNCJ #Nigeria #UKaid #IDC #Development

UK aid to Nigeria: Partnership or paternalism?

The <a href="/CommonsIDC/">International Development Committee</a> has launched a new inquiry into the UK’s development relationship with Nigeria — a rising power facing major challenges.

🔍 Read more: buff.ly/e1cFNCJ

#Nigeria #UKaid #IDC #Development
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What if development studies could also make more space for the affirmative? What if it cultivated a deeper orientation toward hope, creativity, and transformation? Richard Heeks explores this question. All Global Development Institute news here: buff.ly/LB79Bty

What if development studies could also make more space for the affirmative? What if it cultivated a deeper orientation toward hope, creativity, and transformation?

<a href="/CDDManchester/">Richard Heeks</a> explores this question. 

All <a href="/GlobalDevInst/">Global Development Institute</a> news here: 
buff.ly/LB79Bty
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Join the "GDI Students for Palestine" group for this session: Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine 🇵🇸 📅 15 September 2025 Find out more & register: buff.ly/mHkT6rN

Join the "GDI Students for Palestine" group for this session: Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine 🇵🇸
📅 15 September 2025

Find out more &amp; register: buff.ly/mHkT6rN
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📸 Wish you were here? Or maybe you were! Check out our wrap up of #DSA2025 at the University of Bath and see if you’re mentioned 📝 In coming weeks we will feature blogs, panels and interviews from many participants 📣 Get in touch if you want to be included 🔗 buff.ly/LUMai7j

📸 Wish you were here? Or maybe you were! Check out our wrap up of #DSA2025 at the <a href="/UniofBath/">University of Bath</a> and see if you’re mentioned

📝 In coming weeks we will feature blogs, panels and interviews from many participants

📣 Get in touch if you want to be included
🔗 buff.ly/LUMai7j
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📢 Latest news from ODID: 🎤 MSc student Hadia Azizi performed original poetry on BBC Radio about the refugee experience 🧭 Plus, the latest Forced Migration Review explores saving lives & responding to missing migrants & refugees All ODID news: buff.ly/BsYXQDQ

📢 Latest news from <a href="/ODID_QEH/">ODID</a>:

🎤 MSc student Hadia Azizi performed original poetry on BBC Radio about the refugee experience
🧭 Plus, the latest Forced Migration Review explores saving lives &amp; responding to missing migrants &amp; refugees

All ODID news: buff.ly/BsYXQDQ
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New stream of #Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships for Small Island Developing States. From 2025, CSC in the UK will be awarding 20 dedicated scholarships to students from #SIDS to study in the UK. 📅 Applications open September 2025 Read more: bit.ly/3UgwLuD

New stream of #Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships for Small Island Developing States.

From 2025, <a href="/commschols/">CSC in the UK</a> will be awarding 20 dedicated scholarships to students from #SIDS to study in the UK.

📅 Applications open September 2025

Read more: bit.ly/3UgwLuD
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Join our discussion on decolonizing economics, the university & the space for radical thinking and activism at our upcoming Launch Event for the D-Econ Padlet! Chirashree Das Gupta, Tom Six & Amaarah Garda will join as speakers + Afreen Faridi will chair. d-econ.org/decolonising-e…

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🎙️ British Council's latest podcast explores how girls’ education transforms lives and communities, with voices from Nigeria and Myanmar. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/7VCInNM

🎙️ <a href="/BritishCouncil/">British Council</a>'s latest podcast explores how girls’ education transforms lives and communities, with voices from Nigeria and Myanmar.

🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/7VCInNM
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Funding from the The British Academy for ECRs in 12 countries + LDCs to publish in top HSS journals. 🌍 Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Turkey & more ⏳ Deadline: 17 Sept 🔗 buff.ly/VWDm3PM

Funding from the <a href="/BritishAcademy_/">The British Academy</a> for ECRs in 12 countries + LDCs to publish in top HSS journals.
🌍 Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Turkey &amp; more
⏳ Deadline: 17 Sept
🔗 buff.ly/VWDm3PM
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📣 King's International Development in the media: 🗳️ What’s at stake in South Korea’s snap Presidential election 📱 How the iPhone drove men and women apart 💷 A 2% wealth tax on UK’s richest could have raised £160 billion in 32 years 🔗 All King's news: buff.ly/q0A92dR

📣 <a href="/KingsIntDev/">King's International Development</a> in the media:

🗳️ What’s at stake in South Korea’s snap Presidential election
📱 How the iPhone drove men and women apart
💷 A 2% wealth tax on UK’s richest could have raised £160 billion in 32 years

🔗 All King's news: buff.ly/q0A92dR
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📢 British Council are awarding two new 12-month Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh (IASH, Edinburgh) ⏰ Apply by 28 July buff.ly/utKVnAI

📢 <a href="/BritishCouncil/">British Council</a> are awarding two new 12-month Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh (<a href="/IASH_Edinburgh/">IASH, Edinburgh</a>)

⏰ Apply by 28 July
buff.ly/utKVnAI
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📢 EADI blog: “From this perspective, research reproduces forms of harm that it purports to study. Our research questions are insufficient, our funding and ethical approval systems are not fit for purpose, and our research practices are actively harmful." buff.ly/MAZy3gJ

📢 <a href="/EADI/">EADI</a> blog: “From this perspective, research reproduces forms of harm that it purports to study. Our research questions are insufficient, our funding and ethical approval systems are not fit for purpose, and our research practices are actively harmful."
buff.ly/MAZy3gJ