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 Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) aims to address some of the most important issues related to technology and management facing public and private policy-makers. The Centre also serves as a global nerve centre for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research into the applications of technology and management in and for the developing world.
Photo: © Dominic Chavez / World Bank. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Innovations in technology and management have largely been perceived as outcomes of development within the field of international development. Compared to dominant topics, such as extreme poverty, hunger and deficient healthcare systems in low-income countries, the key role of technology and management in the development process has not been given sufficient research.
TMCD pursues evidence for the use of technology and innovation as a tool for, rather than an outcome of, development and advocates to bring this to the forefront of international development practice.
TMCD hosts multiple concurrent research projects and event series from its offices. Its broad research themes include:
TMCD also supervises some ODID doctoral research students and hosts a visiting fellows programme.
TMCD is supported by the generous funding of ESRC, EPSRC, UKaid, European Commission, UNIDO, UNCTAD, British Academy, Huawei Technologies Ltd., Cairncross Foundation
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 275005
Website: www.oxfordtmcd.org