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Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
This is a comparative study of the multiple factors arising from urban transformation that contribute to gendered violence against women in two major cities located in the Global South – Delhi NCR (National Capital Region) and Johannesburg.
Nandini Gooptu leads the Delhi part of the project, focussed on Gurgaon (Gurugram), along with Professor Sanjay Srivastava (University College London, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi) and working with a team of researchers based at Cambridge and Delhi.
The research addresses how recent urban transformation in the context of globalisation and economic liberalisation in India has affected gender roles and women’s lives, covering work and leisure as well as domestic, social and community relations. The project will seek to explain how these changes have influenced women’s experience and perception of violence in public and private.
The project is led by Cambridge, in collaboration with Oxford, the University of Johannesburg, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Kampala, and the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi.