The UK based membership organisation for those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development. #XDissenter: find us on LinkedIn & BlueSky
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📢 Call for Participants for the annual Scotland Study Group symposium: Scotland in the New Development Landscape
📍 @UofGlasgow in partnership with @sciaf & @UofGSPS
📅 3 Sep
⏰ To apply to present, submit an abstract by 6 July
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Our teams have to make brutal decisions: the cuts force us to choose which lives to save and which lives not to save, which programs to fund and which to drop.
@UNOCHA's @UNReliefChief @TFletcher interviewed in @el_pais
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How to re-imagine sustainable development through equitable research partnerships.
We’re pleased #DSA2026 features @Researchirel convening a panel on this topic, with:
✨ Hawraa Shahrour
✨ @RachResearchIrl
✨ Maysoun Mustafa
✨ Laura Quinn
Join them 👇
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Using social science fiction 📘
DSA Council member @camfield_laura & @KingsIntDev’s Andy Sumner explore ‘social science fiction’ to expand development studies—rethinking power, methods & futures.
Read the #OpenAccess article all Kings news:
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🏆 DSA Thesis Prize winner announced
Judges praised an exceptionally wide-ranging, high-quality field this year.
Congratulations to Rachel Tough (@developmentuea) for Vietnam’s War on COVID-19: an Ethnography of Pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City.
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📢 NOW OPEN: 11 Senior Research Fellowships at the @FCDOGovUK
Work on global challenges—from AI & conflict to climate, health & beyond.
⏰ Deadline: 30 Aug 2026
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Does your PhD shape how you see the world?
In a new @EADI reflection paper, @ryancbriggs & Andy Sumner explore what drives deep disagreements in development studies—and point to the “disciplinary baggage” of PhD training.
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What do we know about anti-poverty interventions and their impact on empowerment and what’s next?
Join Tara Bedi (@tcddublin), Joanne Cagin (@Concern Worldwide) & @KeetieRoelen (@OU_CSGD) to discuss at #DSA2026 in Ireland.
Join them!
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🇩🇰 Denmark will hold its global development aid steady at 0.7% of its Gross National Income (GNI), in line with international targets, writes @bjornhamland in @DevTodayJournal
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Does ‘Feminization U Hypothesis’ Hold?
A Discussion on Women’s Work Participation in Rural India - a new paper by C.R Yardu in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy (@Agrarian_South).
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Self-help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity.
During the 2026 Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development, @mikejennings101 @SOASDevelopment writes an #OpenAccess paper in @DevandChg.
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As Europe’s leading donor states slash budgets, the result could be more than 11.5m preventable deaths, new “Barcelona Institute for Global Health" @ISGLOBALorg report finds.
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To what extent are the views and sense of agency of citizens in the UK and Ireland shaping the future of global development? asks
✨ @ptaylor_ottawa
✨ @Natilibrahim
✨ @NitaMishra23
✨ @EmmaMawdsley
at #DSA2026 - we hope you can join the discussion.
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✍️ DSA Online Writing Session | 24 June
Run by the DSA Student & ECR group, the sessions offer a supportive, no-pressure space to write together & connect with other members.
Open to DSA members (students can join for £11). Only sign up if you can attend.
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📢 @OU_CSGD are pleased to invite you to their third webinar in this year’s Language & Society Hub talk series:
📅 18 June
📍 Online (MS Teams Webinar)
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🇮🇪 Get to know more about Ireland, where we will be hosting #DSA2026 and ways you can connect to Irish researchers, funders and perspectives.
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New from @PA_PublishingUK 📚
Revolutionary Science by Bruce H Jennings explores agroecology in the Americas—can it thrive as both a science & movement advancing livelihoods for millions of campesinos?
Ebook & paperback available.
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📣 @icai_uk has published an updated assessment of the global context for development cooperation.
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📢 @yloxford is recruiting!
Join Young Lives as a Quantitative Research Assistant, contributing to a major longitudinal study tracking 12,000 children across Ethiopia, India, Peru & Vietnam since 2002.
⏰ Deadline: 10 June
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