Over 500 delegates – academics as well as practitioners – will attend the event, which offers 118 sessions, 65 panels and 440 papers on a vast variety of topics.

The conference, titled Politics in Development, will be opened by Charlotte Watts, Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of International Development. It also features keynotes by Professor Tania Li of the University of Toronto and Professor James A Robinson of the University of Chicago.

ODID researchers and students are presenting 16 papers at the conference and convening or co-convening eight panels on:

• Virtual diasporas: how digital tools influence the politics of diasporas
• The politics of infrastructure development
• Reclaiming the political: reflections on the tactics and strategies of actors in the quest for just
• Politics of the poor
• Access to justice in fragile states: policies and assessment
• Searching for the everyday normal: continuities, discontinuities and transformation in crises
• Power, politics and development in Afghanistan
• General papers

The event takes place in the historic Examination Schools, in the centre of Oxford.

You can find full details on the conference website and follow developments on twitter at #dsa2016.