The department is a lively community that is recognised internationally as one of the top centres for research and teaching in development studies.
Human Development, Poverty and Children
Human development – beyond per capita income, through health and education, to enabling productive, creative and autonomous lives – has long been a core theme for the department and our present strength and reputation in this field is due mainly to two research groups: the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and Young Lives.
ODID faculty have participated in design, methodology and research for the UNDP's flagship Human Development Report since its foundation in 1990. Building human capabilities necessarily starts with children, so the department also has a tradition of research collaboration with UNICEF.
Our research in this area draws on the pioneering work of Paul Streeten (QEH Director 1971–1978) and Frances Stewart (Director 1994–2004). Research on poverty and vulnerability is also carried out by the International Growth Centre (IGC).
Breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty? Young people’s education and employment trajector...
research_project54From a global measure to South-South collaboration on poverty measurement
research_impact51Identity performance of street-based youth in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
research_project54Patterns, determinants, and effects of internal migration among young adults in Ethiopia, India, P...
research_project54The glocalization of wellbeing and sustainability: a biosocial educational prototype for Peru, Bra...
research_project51Negotiating time use: an inter-generational mixed methods approach to household decision-making on...
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Katherine Ford
Policy Officer, Young Lives
Maria Franco Gavonel
Research Student
Hayley Jones
Research Student
Usha Kanagaratnam
Research Officer, OPHI
Paul Kellner
Research Student
Bilal Malaeb
Research Officer, OPHI
Pierre Marion
Research Analyst, Young Lives
Rhiannon Moore
Education Research Officer, Young Lives
Ricardo Nogales Carvajal
Research Officer, OPHIPages
31 Oct, 2017Young Lives wins funding for comparative study of child marriage and parenthood in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Zambia
10 Jul, 2017New article by Padmini Iyer and Rhiannon Moore examines how Young Lives conceptualise, measure learning quality
18 May, 2017New article by former ODID DPhils examines place of technology in Capability Approach
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22 Nov, 2016'Boys in Telangana, AP consume more nutritious food than girls'. Young Lives research features in Deccan Chronicle
12 Sep, 2016'Ethiopia’s young men: Between hope and a hard place'. Young Lives research features in New Internationalist magazine
09 Sep, 2016'Girls’ diverging pathways to marriage'. Read an essay by Gina Crivello on medium.com
24 May, 2016The best books to challenge our assumptions about raising children. Jo Boyden interviewed by Five Books
16 Oct, 2014'Can stunting be reversed? Yes, and Peru is showing us how'. Andreas Georgiadis writes for the Guardian
10 Jun, 2013‘To be young and poor: the crisis of development’. Adil Hossain writes for The Guardian
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