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.”
A new scholarship supported by ODID and St Antony’s College aims to encourage more applications to the department from the Global South, with a particular emphasis on candidates from Latin America.
The initiative for this scholarship comes from Professor Valpy FitzGerald who was Head of Department at ODID from 2007 to 2012. The scholarship will be named after his wife Angelines, who has been struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Latin America is the focus of Professor FitzGerald's academic interests and both ODID and St Antony's currently host a relatively small number of Latin American students; both institutions would very much like to see that number grow. If there are no suitable candidates from Latin America in a particular year, then applicants from other parts of the Global South will be considered.
“Training a new generation of students in development studies at ODID and St Antony's College will be a fitting tribute to Angelines’ own roots in Andalucía, her training as a social historian, her lived experience of Mexico and Nicaragua, and her kindness to previous generations of postgraduates in Cambridge, The Hague and Oxford”, Professor FitzGerald said.
The ambition is that the Angelines Scholarship should cover the academic fee of £30,300. With thanks to Professor FitzGerald, £12,500 has already been secured on an annual basis, which ODID will match, bringing the total to £25,000. ODID and St Antony’s hope to raise the remaining amount, £5,300 annually, via fundraising among their alumni communities.