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.”
DPhil candidate Richard Dolan is to co-convene an interdisciplinary workshop on the Karen in the context of Myanmar’s ongoing political transition with Burma/Myanmar scholars from Oxford University and colleagues from the Myanmar Research Centre at the Australian National University.
The special one-day workshop will be held at St Antony’s College on Thursday 15 June 2017 and will take stock of the aspirations, adaptive strategies and politics of ordinary people and ethnic leaders in Karen State, Burma/Myanmar as well as Karen refugee and diaspora communities, following the signing of a Karen ceasefire in late 2015 and the advent of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) government in early 2016.
Specifically, the workshop will consider dynamics of precarity, hybridity and resilience amongst Karen communities in Burma/Myanmar and internationally, with four panels discussing education and health; livelihoods and social protection; migration, conflict and the borderlands; and the future of Karen in Myanmar/Burma and the diaspora.
It will feature presentations by scholars and activists from the University of Oxford, Australian National University, Mobile Education Partnerships, Max Planck Institute, Central European University and Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
Find out more about the workshop.