The department is a lively community that is recognised internationally as one of the top centres for research and teaching in development studies.

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.”
The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research.
Market sellers, Kitgum, Northern Uganda. Fieldwork photo: Lucia Rost, MPhil in Development Studies 2013-15
Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), IGC is directed jointly by the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science (where it is based).
It has a global network of over 1,000 world-class researchers, led by Research Programme Directors. 15 country offices throughout Africa and South Asia bring these researchers together with senior policy makers to support long-term policy engagement in our partner countries and to generate high quality research and policy advice on key growth challenges.
The IGC research programme has four principal themes:
Four key members of the IGC research team are based at ODID:
Christopher Adam, Lead Academic for the Tanzania Country Programme
Douglas Gollin and Pramila Krishnan, Lead Academics for the Ethiopian Country Programme
Christopher Woodruff, Research Programme Director for the Firms Research Programme.
Website: www.theigc.org