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📢 NOW OPEN: 11 Senior Research Fellowships at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Work on global challenges—from AI & conflict to climate, health & beyond.
⏰ Deadline: 30 Aug 2026
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Using social science fiction 📘
DSA Council member Laura Camfield & @andypsumner.bsky.social from @kings-sga.bsky.social explore ‘social science fiction’ to expand development studies—rethinking power, methods & futures.
Read the #OpenAccess article + find all Kings news here:
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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.bsky.social in Development Today.
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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.
As Europe’s leading donor states slash budgets, the result could be more than 11.5m preventable deaths, new “Barcelona Institute for Global Health" @isglobal.org 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?
✨ @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social
✨ Ibrahim Natil @dcu-conflict.bsky.social
✨ Nita Mishra @unioflimerick.bsky.social
✨ Emma Mawdsley
#DSA2026
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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.bsky.social for Vietnam’s War on COVID-19: an Ethnography of Pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City.
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In a new @eadi.bsky.social reflection paper, @ryancbriggs.net & @andypsumner.bsky.social, @kings-sga.bsky.social 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.bsky.social
✨ Joanne Cagin @concernworldwide.bsky.social &
✨ @keetieroelen.bsky.social @oucsgd.bsky.social
...to discuss at #DSA2026 in Ireland.
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Self-help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity.
@mikejennings101.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social writes an #OpenAccess paper in @devandchg.bsky.social.
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The Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Claudia Goldin in 2023 has renewed attention on issues of women’s work. In this context, this article critically revisit...
