07 October 2025
DID News October
Latest updates from the Department of International Development.
Welcome to this month's roundup of news, events, and publications from DID.
Recent publications
October
Development cooperation at a tipping point: how, why and through what mechanisms do policy norms break? Sumner, A. & Klingebiel, S., 1 Oct 2025, (IDOS working paper).
Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One-Child Generation Liu, Y., 1 Oct 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: British Journal of Sociology.
September
Middle-income Trap or Neoliberal Trap? Sumner, A. & Behuria, P., 11 Sept 2025, In: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE.
Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction Ziadah, R., 2 Sept 2025, In: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE.
Recent Events
Veminism Symposium | King's College London
13 September 2025
Upcoming Events
Book Launch: Political Economy of Digital Monopolies | King's College London
10 October 2025
NCRM training: Visual and Embodied Methodologies for Social Science - online | King's College London
13 October 2025
Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India | King's College London
15 October 2025
Was Capitalism Just a Detour? – A Talk by Professor Timothy Mitchell | King's College London
15 October 2025
Art-research collaborations: encountering, making, and developing body-health-environment relations | King's College London
30 October 2025
NYRA: Pre-Launch | King's College London
3 November 2025
Blogs & Media
COMMENT: Dams for development? Unpacking tensions in the World Bank's hydropower policies | King's College London by Barnaby Dye & Udisha Saklani
7 October 2025
Taking stock : decolonising knowledge in development studies, with L. Camfield and M. Tadros - Decolonising Knowledge Stories | Podcast on Spotify with Laura Camfield
30 September 2025
Convergence, Divergence, Flatlining or Plateau: What has Happened to Inequality between and within Countries over the Last Decade? – Debating Development Research co-authored by Dr Andy Sumner
19 September 2025
New EADI Reflection Paper: Reimagining the Methodological Horizon: What Can Social Science Fiction Offer Development Studies? By Laura Camfield and Andy Sumner
16 September 2025
Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza’s future: what a leaked plan tells us about US regional strategy by Rafeef Ziadah
12 September 2025