In a new @eadi.bsky.social reflection paper, @ryancbriggs.net & @andypsumner.bsky.social, @kings-sga.bsky.social explore what drives deep disagreements in development studiesāand point to the ādisciplinary baggageā of PhD training.
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Development Studies Association
DSA Ireland is the national association for development studies in Ireland.
DSAIās Chair serves on the #DSA2026 Conference Scientific Committee, and we're grateful for their contribution to shaping our programme.
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š¢ NOW OPEN: 11 Senior Research Fellowships at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Work on global challengesāfrom AI & conflict to climate, health & beyond.
ā° Deadline: 30 Aug 2026
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š¢ Call for Participants for the annual Scotland Study Group symposium: Scotland in the New Development Landscape
š @glasgow.ac.uk in partnership with @sciaf.bsky.social & @uofgsps.bsky.social
š 3 Sep
ā° To apply to present, submit an abstract by 6 July
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š DSA Thesis Prize winner announced
Judges praised an exceptionally wide-ranging, high-quality field this year.
Congratulations to Rachel Tough @developmentuea.bsky.social for Vietnamās War on COVID-19: an Ethnography of Pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City.
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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.org's @tomfletcherun.bsky.social interviewed in @elpais.com š
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DSA Thesis Prize š
Highly commended: Iris Ruyu Lin, @ids.ac.uk for her thesis on solastalgia and the adaptive responses of Monpa transhumant pastoralists to climate and environmental change in the Himalayan borderlands (Arunachal Pradesh, India).
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How to re-imagine sustainable development through equitable research partnerships.
Weāre pleased #DSA2026 features @researchireland.ie convening a panel on this topic, with:
āØ Hawraa Shahrour
āØ Rachel Iredale
āØ Maysoun Mustafa
āØ Laura Quinn
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Social cohesion is a defining global challenge. A new @britishcouncil.bsky.social report finds itās strongest where programmes are participatory, sustained, and rooted in co-creation, mutuality, and local ownership.
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Using social science fiction š
DSA Council member Laura Camfield & @andypsumner.bsky.social from @kings-sga.bsky.social explore āsocial science fictionā to expand development studiesārethinking power, methods & futures.
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