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.”
Nine ODID academics and students will present papers at the 7th European Conference on African Studies, which takes place in Basel on 30 June to 1 July.
Professor Jocelyn Alexander is convening a panel titled ‘Identity and Soldiering: Making armies in southern Africa’ with JoAnn McGregor of the University of Sussex.
The panel includes two papers by ODID DPhil students:
‘Military Cultures in Apartheid South Africa's Security Forces: Comparison of Three Units Consisting of Black Namibian and Angolan Soldiers’ by Lennart Bolliger
‘A Legacy Ignored: Black Veterans of the Rhodesian African Rifles’ by Marc Howard
Professor Alexander will also present a paper titled ‘Adelante! Cuban trainers, Zimbabwean soldiers and military identities in Angola’ with JoAnn McGregor.
DPhil student Arnold Chamunogwa is convening a panel on ‘Everyday Citizenship: entanglements of state power, space and citizenship in contemporary Africa’ with Rudo Mudiwa of Indiana University.
He will also present a paper on ‘The constructions of "patriots" and "sell-outs" and the remaking of political order on commercial farmlands in Zimbabwe’ as part of the panel.
Other papers being presented include:
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