Development Studies Association
@devcomms.bsky.social
The UK based membership organisation for all those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development.
For now, you'll find our news posted on LinkedIn and in our monthly newsletter.
For now, you'll find our news posted on LinkedIn and in our monthly newsletter.
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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
📅 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
#DSA2026 will host a roundtable on class, precarity and access in international development, building on 'A Profession for the Privileged' (Diversity in Development).
Convenors welcome short reflections—especially lived experience of exclusion.
Read more: buff.ly/ncC3Zd8
Convenors welcome short reflections—especially lived experience of exclusion.
Read more: buff.ly/ncC3Zd8
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#DSA2026 will host a roundtable on class, precarity and access in international development, building on 'A Profession for the Privileged' (Diversity in Development).
Convenors welcome short reflections—especially lived experience of exclusion.
Read more: buff.ly/ncC3Zd8
Convenors welcome short reflections—especially lived experience of exclusion.
Read more: buff.ly/ncC3Zd8
🚨 Final week! 🚨
#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/xJkOMT3
#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/xJkOMT3
December 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🚨 Final week! 🚨
#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/xJkOMT3
#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/xJkOMT3
📣 @odid-qeh.bsky.social is looking to recruit a Qualitative Researcher in British and European Politics
⏰ Deadline: 12 January 2026
Find out more and apply: buff.ly/EbpIB0q
⏰ Deadline: 12 January 2026
Find out more and apply: buff.ly/EbpIB0q
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📣 @odid-qeh.bsky.social is looking to recruit a Qualitative Researcher in British and European Politics
⏰ Deadline: 12 January 2026
Find out more and apply: buff.ly/EbpIB0q
⏰ Deadline: 12 January 2026
Find out more and apply: buff.ly/EbpIB0q
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December 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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🚨 Contribute your research & critical thinking through our open CALL FOR PAPERS for #DSA2026 taking place at @ucddublin.bsky.social & online
⏳ Deadline: 30 Dec but please allow time to set yourself up on our conference system & for any tech queries you might have
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⏳ Deadline: 30 Dec but please allow time to set yourself up on our conference system & for any tech queries you might have
buff.ly/ZEEM0uC
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🚨 Contribute your research & critical thinking through our open CALL FOR PAPERS for #DSA2026 taking place at @ucddublin.bsky.social & online
⏳ Deadline: 30 Dec but please allow time to set yourself up on our conference system & for any tech queries you might have
buff.ly/ZEEM0uC
⏳ Deadline: 30 Dec but please allow time to set yourself up on our conference system & for any tech queries you might have
buff.ly/ZEEM0uC
✨ New and #OpenAccess titles this month from @papublishing.bsky.social including:
📚 Backyard Bankers: Immigrants, money clubs, and the pursuit of the American dream – is now open access
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📚 Backyard Bankers: Immigrants, money clubs, and the pursuit of the American dream – is now open access
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December 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
✨ New and #OpenAccess titles this month from @papublishing.bsky.social including:
📚 Backyard Bankers: Immigrants, money clubs, and the pursuit of the American dream – is now open access
buff.ly/T85sUsJ
📚 Backyard Bankers: Immigrants, money clubs, and the pursuit of the American dream – is now open access
buff.ly/T85sUsJ
There is still time to apply for a funded #PhD in Development Studies @openuniversity.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline 7 January
Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas!
buff.ly/paGsDP8
⏰ Deadline 7 January
Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas!
buff.ly/paGsDP8
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
There is still time to apply for a funded #PhD in Development Studies @openuniversity.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline 7 January
Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas!
buff.ly/paGsDP8
⏰ Deadline 7 January
Get in touch with the academics to discuss your research ideas!
buff.ly/paGsDP8
First time submitting a conference paper?
✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!
Get the advice: buff.ly/vOcsME1
#AcademicTwitter #ECR #ResearchTips
✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!
Get the advice: buff.ly/vOcsME1
#AcademicTwitter #ECR #ResearchTips
December 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
First time submitting a conference paper?
✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!
Get the advice: buff.ly/vOcsME1
#AcademicTwitter #ECR #ResearchTips
✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!
Get the advice: buff.ly/vOcsME1
#AcademicTwitter #ECR #ResearchTips
How We Push Back Against Fear – Lessons from Harvard
“We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.”
Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com
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“We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.”
Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com
buff.ly/fQYslDD
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
How We Push Back Against Fear – Lessons from Harvard
“We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.”
Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com
buff.ly/fQYslDD
“We couldn't guarantee that nothing bad would happen, but having more collective power could make us safer and give us more choices.”
Brilliant blog by Stephanie Wong from @actbuildchange.com
buff.ly/fQYslDD
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?
Read more: buff.ly/P5Kkc87
If your department is looking for a meaningful, visible way to engage with the global development community have you considered hosting the DSA conference?
Read more: buff.ly/P5Kkc87
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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?
Read more: buff.ly/P5Kkc87
If your department is looking for a meaningful, visible way to engage with the global development community have you considered hosting the DSA conference?
Read more: buff.ly/P5Kkc87
Reposted by Development Studies Association
Just upping this call for papers at our hybrid @devcomms.bsky.social panel next year on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority. We have received excellent papers so far but are always interested in more! Deadline: 30.12 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
P26: Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge, and authority
This panel explores how climate governance, through adaptation and Loss and Damage, reflects deep epistemic inequalities. It asks how knowledge, power, and justice intersect, and how reimagining gover...
nomadit.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Just upping this call for papers at our hybrid @devcomms.bsky.social panel next year on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority. We have received excellent papers so far but are always interested in more! Deadline: 30.12 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
How gender-transformative teaching could help improve boys’ engagement and learning
@developmentuea.bsky.social
Read more: buff.ly/TTKFghN
@developmentuea.bsky.social
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December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
How gender-transformative teaching could help improve boys’ engagement and learning
@developmentuea.bsky.social
Read more: buff.ly/TTKFghN
@developmentuea.bsky.social
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Are you going to #DSA2026? It’s not too early to start planning travel logistics and thinking ahead! Here’s 5 top tips for those new to visiting Ireland
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December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Are you going to #DSA2026? It’s not too early to start planning travel logistics and thinking ahead! Here’s 5 top tips for those new to visiting Ireland
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buff.ly/tgXpnOi
ICYMI: As the UK’s Aid Cuts Begin, Which Countries Should the FCDO Protect? asks @cgdev.org
By Sam Hughes and @ianmitchell1.bsky.social
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By Sam Hughes and @ianmitchell1.bsky.social
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December 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
ICYMI: As the UK’s Aid Cuts Begin, Which Countries Should the FCDO Protect? asks @cgdev.org
By Sam Hughes and @ianmitchell1.bsky.social
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By Sam Hughes and @ianmitchell1.bsky.social
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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.
👉 All @britishcouncil.bsky.social news: buff.ly/Woj9aiO
👉 All @britishcouncil.bsky.social news: buff.ly/Woj9aiO
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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.
👉 All @britishcouncil.bsky.social news: buff.ly/Woj9aiO
👉 All @britishcouncil.bsky.social news: buff.ly/Woj9aiO
More questions than answers for UK aid heading into 2026
By Alex Farley via @bondngo.bsky.social
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By Alex Farley via @bondngo.bsky.social
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December 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
More questions than answers for UK aid heading into 2026
By Alex Farley via @bondngo.bsky.social
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By Alex Farley via @bondngo.bsky.social
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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.
Read more: buff.ly/3aIrwkH
Six institutes still need one—see if yours does and get involved.
All students can join the DSA, member or not.
Read more: buff.ly/3aIrwkH
December 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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.
Read more: buff.ly/3aIrwkH
Six institutes still need one—see if yours does and get involved.
All students can join the DSA, member or not.
Read more: buff.ly/3aIrwkH
📢 Calling all critical thinkers & changemakers! 🌍
Submit your paper for #DSA2026! Explore 10 diverse themes across 100 panels.
Join us in Dublin, Ireland @ucddublin.bsky.social or virtually (7-10 July)
⏰ Deadline: 30 Dec
🔗 buff.ly/xJkOMT3
Submit your paper for #DSA2026! Explore 10 diverse themes across 100 panels.
Join us in Dublin, Ireland @ucddublin.bsky.social or virtually (7-10 July)
⏰ Deadline: 30 Dec
🔗 buff.ly/xJkOMT3
December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📢 Calling all critical thinkers & changemakers! 🌍
Submit your paper for #DSA2026! Explore 10 diverse themes across 100 panels.
Join us in Dublin, Ireland @ucddublin.bsky.social or virtually (7-10 July)
⏰ Deadline: 30 Dec
🔗 buff.ly/xJkOMT3
Submit your paper for #DSA2026! Explore 10 diverse themes across 100 panels.
Join us in Dublin, Ireland @ucddublin.bsky.social or virtually (7-10 July)
⏰ Deadline: 30 Dec
🔗 buff.ly/xJkOMT3
UK funding shifts are straining front-line efforts in both Sudan and Sierra Leone. Sudanese responders in the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” have no protection.
By Helen Murphy via @devex.com
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By Helen Murphy via @devex.com
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December 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
UK funding shifts are straining front-line efforts in both Sudan and Sierra Leone. Sudanese responders in the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” have no protection.
By Helen Murphy via @devex.com
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By Helen Murphy via @devex.com
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Check out Giuseppina Siciliano’s latest analysis exploring the social and environmental ramifications of large and megadams for hydropower.
Read the full analysis here ➡️ fwr.org/the-great-hy...
@carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Read the full analysis here ➡️ fwr.org/the-great-hy...
@carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Check out Giuseppina Siciliano’s latest analysis exploring the social and environmental ramifications of large and megadams for hydropower.
Read the full analysis here ➡️ fwr.org/the-great-hy...
@carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Read the full analysis here ➡️ fwr.org/the-great-hy...
@carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
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.
Find out more: buff.ly/ZnisD0S
Find out more: buff.ly/ZnisD0S
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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.
Find out more: buff.ly/ZnisD0S
Find out more: buff.ly/ZnisD0S
December 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Georgia Oliver from @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social who has been named the second recipient of the Norfolk International Scholarship, announced at the Royal Norfolk Show.
@thenisd.bsky.social @developmentuea.bsky.social
More here: buff.ly/P3GAfhf
@thenisd.bsky.social @developmentuea.bsky.social
More here: buff.ly/P3GAfhf
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Georgia Oliver from @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social who has been named the second recipient of the Norfolk International Scholarship, announced at the Royal Norfolk Show.
@thenisd.bsky.social @developmentuea.bsky.social
More here: buff.ly/P3GAfhf
@thenisd.bsky.social @developmentuea.bsky.social
More here: buff.ly/P3GAfhf
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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✨ 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
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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
✨ 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
Fears for UK security as Foreign Office moves to scrap unit on conflict and refugee crises
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December 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Fears for UK security as Foreign Office moves to scrap unit on conflict and refugee crises
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