For two decades, the MPhil has provided a rigorous and critical introduction to development as a process of managed and unmanaged change in societies in the global South. We have interrogated when and how ‘development’ was invented, why the tides of theory and policy ebb and flow as they do, what gives rise to resistance and by whom, where the global economy is headed, and where we may stand in these processes.

Over 400 students have studied on the course, participating in these debates and going on to stellar careers in development research, policy and practice – and well beyond that – all over the globe.

To celebrate the course’s intellectual success and the accomplishments of alumni, we are holding a one-day event on Friday 2 June 2017 that will bring former classmates together to discuss changes in the ideas of development in the last 20 years – as well as to catch up and socialise. Former students of the MPhil can download the call for contributions here.

Further details will be available soon, so please watch this space.