Research in the Department of Development Studies

The Department of Development Studies was established in 1996 to provide innovative and challenging teaching in the field of development studies and to foster high quality research on the development of poorer countries.

The Department's research is centred around seven research clusters:

• Labour, Movements and Development
• Neoliberalism, Globalisation, and States
• Violence, Peace and Development
• Centre for Water and Development
• Migration, Mobility and Development
• Agrarian Change and Development
• Development Policy, Aid, Institutions and Poverty Reduction
• SOAS Political Ecology of Environment and Development (SEED)