Development Studies Association

Latest news from @wicidwarwick.bsky.social 📣
✨ Joy Malala joins the steering committee;
📚Panel discussion on a new book on shifting power in aid;
📊 WICID annual report 2024-2025
...and more.
Read all WICID news:
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Fears for UK security as Foreign Office moves to scrap unit on conflict and refugee crises
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☃️ Got plans for the holiday season?
We bet it doesn’t include submitting a paper for #DSA2026!

Deadline is 30 December but submit early unless you want to be typing your short abstract while everyone else is resting!

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The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 is now available online, produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.

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✨ Third World Quarterly’s new Special Issue highlights strategies of resistance across geographies and disciplines, offering critical tools to build more just and plural futures.
Guest Edited by Yafa El Masri, @developmentuea.bsky.social
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Learn how to assess the impact of your programs with @ids.ac.uk's 5-day in-person course on Contribution Analysis for Impact Evaluation
📅 12–16 Jan 2026
📍 IDS, Brighton, UK

Gain practical tools to show how your interventions contribute to change.

Apply: bit.ly/47SmZGL

📢 #DSA2026 Call for Papers!

📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin.bsky.social

Reimagining Development:
Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World

⏳ Deadline: 30 December 2025

More info & submission details: buff.ly/nKzKIBE

Your institute as a future DSA conference host?

If your department is looking for a meaningful, visible way to engage with the global development community have you considered hosting the DSA conference?

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With each day, hope seems a little harder to find and challenges seem to multiply, writes Peter Taylor, which makes it all the more important to continue seeking hope together.

Peter shares his reflections on the @eadi.bsky.social blog:
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Why do so many well-intentioned education reforms fall short?
📚 New book from @odid-qeh.bsky.social's Masooda Bano shows how decades of donor-led decentralisation & community participation have failed to resolve learning crises, leaving millions out of school or struggling to learn.
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Calling for papers to our @adaptationhive.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social 2026 panel on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: 'Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority'. The call for papers closes on 30 December. The conference is Hybrid and we are looking forward to exciting proposals!

Submit your paper to #DSA2026 on topics below AND new ways of understanding and tackling #poverty
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Bloomsbury Book Publishing drop in sessions Drop in to discuss with Nick potential books or book series projects

Drop in to discuss with Nick potential books or book series projects Tomorrow! Find out more here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bloomsbury...

Just some of the topics calling for your critical thinking at #DSA2026 👇🏿
▪️Culture
▪️Health
▪️Agriculture
▪️Faith
▪️Decolonisation
▪️Data
Find out more and submit before 30 December 2025: buff.ly/nKzKIBE

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DSA institutional members can nominate a PGT/PGR rep to our student decision-making group.

Six institutes still need one—see if yours does and get involved.

All students can join the DSA, member or not.

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Human–Nature: Relations, Resilience, Reciprocity offers guidance for creative practitioners, researchers, civil society & cultural orgs working with Indigenous communities on climate-related cultural projects in Malaysia.

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In consultation with student / ECR members, the DSA has launched a fund to provide financial support for activities organised by members for student / ECR support.

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Government must pause FCDO staffing cuts or risk exodus, Committee Chair says - Committees - UK Parliament Plans to cut 2,000 UK staff at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) may breach the department’s obligations to its workforce and cause an exodus of staff, the Chair of the Int...

In response to news of 25% staff cuts at FCDO
@petertaylor-uk.bsky.social, IDS Director says:

“We strongly urge the Government to pause these cuts, set out a coherent vision for UK development leadership, and ensure that decisions are driven by evidence rather than urgency."

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Fola Aina on @deutschewellerss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy News Africa explains why Nigeria’s security challenges need both reform and strategic innovation. Listen here⬇️
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First time submitting a conference paper?

✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!

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Are you a DSA Global South member?

Nominate yourself or someone else to be a GS representative on the DSA Council and help shape the future of membership for those in the Global South.

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📢 #DSA2026 Call for Papers!

📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin.bsky.social

Reimagining Development:
Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World

⏳ Deadline: 30 December 2025

More info & submission details: buff.ly/nKzKIBE

📚 10 Lessons in Localisation by Sinead Walsh — on how aid can truly serve communities. Many INGOs talk about ‘localising’ aid, but how many really know how?
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Development Leadership Dialogue at @soasuni.bsky.social announces its 12th Future Leaders Programme on Economic Development in Africa: Critical Policies in a ‘New’ World.
📅 24–27 February 2026
📍 London

⏰ Deadline: 5 December 2025

Find out more and apply:
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Latest news from @wicidwarwick.bsky.social 📣
✨ Joy Malala joins the steering committee;
📚Panel discussion on a new book on shifting power in aid;
📊 WICID annual report 2024-2025
...and more.
Read all WICID news:
buff.ly/EcYHVp2

📣 @odid-qeh.bsky.social and Wolfson College seek applications for an Associate Professor in Development Economics ✨
⏰ Deadline: 8 December

Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr

📚 @globaldevinst.bsky.social’s Whitney Banyai-Becker co-authored a chapter on ‘Engaging with knowledge co-production: critical reflections from global doctoral researchers’ in Co-production of Knowledge in Action: Emancipatory strategies for urban equality.
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Just some of the topics calling for your critical thinking at #DSA2026 👇🏿
▪️Culture
▪️Health
▪️Agriculture
▪️Faith
▪️Decolonisation
▪️Data
Find out more and submit before 30 December 2025:
buff.ly/xJkOMT3