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.”
This is a hybrid event. Please register via the link to attend online.
The latest IPCC reports called for a radical transformation of the ways our economies and societies are structured in order to avoid runaway climate change and ensure a liveable planet. Universities, as civil society institutions which constitute key economic, social and political actors, are part of that transformation. Throughout the world, new higher education initiatives such as eco-campuses are springing up to meet today’s unprecedented challenges. The Campus de la Transition (‘Transition Campus’) is an eco-campus near Paris. It is a place of teaching, research and experimentation created in 2018 by a collective of academics, entrepreneurs and students united by a common desire: to promote an ecological, economic and just transition, towards regenerative and solidarity economies and societies. In this lecture, Professor Cécile Renouard, co-founder of the Campus, will present the transdisciplinary methodology and the teaching practices and pedagogies designed and implemented by the Campus, especially the ‘head-body-heart’ pedagogy and the methodology set out in the Great Transition Handbook. This framework aims at inspiring the transformation of courses and curricula in higher education and to spur collective responsibility at different scales. The seminar will explore ways in which postgraduate education at the University of Oxford, and at ODID, can rise to the challenges of transformative education to respond to climate change. Professor Cécile Renouard is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at ESSEC Business School, the Ecole des Mines, and the Centre Sèvres in Paris. She is President of the Transition Campus.