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    Research

    Around 80 per cent of our research was rated as world leading or internationally excellent in the UK government's most recent nationwide assessment.

    Research

    Our work engages with some of the most urgent challenges of the 21st century: from security and global governance, to migration and human rights; from poverty and inequality to technological innovation and enterprise; from children and youth to urban transformation.

    Our approach is unique because we address the structural roots of poverty and power on the one hand, and the international as well as the national dimensions of development on the other. We value field experience, primary data collection, comparative research, novel methodologies and innovative theory and analysis.

    Our research is clustered around four major thematic areas, which are in turn embedded in, and illuminated by, the study of specific regions of the developing world. You can find out more about our research themes and regions using the links to the left.

    You can also find out about the work of our externally funded research groups and major projects, where a large part of our research activity is carried out, as well as exploring the real-world impact of our findings.

    Alternatively, browse all our research activity below.

    Browse Research

    Muslims and non-Muslims in England
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    Creating a domestic refugee regime in Kenya: the transfer of the management of refugee affairs fro...
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    The Role of Internationalisation on Technological Capability-Upgrading in Developing Countries...
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    An ethnography of policy stability, change and subversion in the distribution of asylum responsibi...
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    Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE): women’s economic empowerment and poverty in post-t...
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    'The law is just background noise': the politics of land governance in urban Pakistan...
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    Refugees are Migrants: Refugee Mobility, Recognition and Rights (REF-MIG)
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    The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance
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    Fracturing echo chambers of hate
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    Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group
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    Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group
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    Architectures of Displacement
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    Intangibility of land as an asset to farmers in the future urbanization of India: the case of Dhol...
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    Refugees and renewable energy: the nature of refugee demand for sustainable energy in humanitarian...
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    Karen knowledge networks and transitional civil society on the Burma/Thailand border
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    Rethinking refuge
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