We're a young and innovative development studies department. Our research agenda challenges conventional views on international development, engaging with global political economy and regional, localised knowledge. Our department focuses especially on middle-income economies in the Global South to explore how development processes and policies create inequalities at multiple scales, with attention to politics and power.
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Our research expertise
Our research draws from a wide range of the social, political and economic sciences and humanities, with expertise and insight from their work in different parts of the world. We go beyond multi or interdisciplinarity to debate, challenge and expand disciplinary boundaries through our various critiques of disciplinary mainstream norms.
We research inequality in dynamic, middle-income contexts through deep engagements with both global political economy and regional and localized knowledge. We explore challenges and contradictions related to structural transformation at global and national levels, including uneven development, poverty, and geographical, class, racial, and gender inequalities.
Our research work has received financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, various United Nations agencies, and other funders.
We also have strong regional expertise and collaborations in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa.
Recent publications
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