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2024-25 MA batch write about development

Best student essays on society, gender, conflict and decoloniality

Development Studies - is this the MA for you?

Develop a critical understanding of major debates, theories and interventions in development studies

Realising Palestinian Self-Determination and State Sovereignty: What next?

Call for conference papers - deadline 15 January 2026

Successful PhD defence by Amod Shah on anti-coals struggles in India
Amod Shah's PhD thesis investigated India's anti-coal struggles, focusing on struggles in the Mand-Raigarh coalfield in the state of Chhattisgarh
- Thursday 11 Dec 2025
- PhD defence
Successful PhD defence by Corinne Lamain on climate security
Corinne Lamain successfully defended her PhD thesis examining the global rise, expansion and stretching of climate security
- Wednesday 10 Dec 2025
- PhD defence
Visit the Letters for Palestinian Childhoods art exhibition
Exhibition of letters, poems and artwork showing the daily realities of children of Palestine
- Monday 8 Dec 2025
- General

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