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.”
Abhishek is a Clarendon and Lincoln-Kingsgate Scholar at Lincoln College. His research focuses on mapping urban transformations in India and the broader South Asian region, particularly their impact on the region’s youth. His interests span education, skill-training, unemployment, urban migration, consumerism, globalisation, new/social media and emerging youth cultures. His past projects include research on South Asian queer cultures and English language use and multilingualism in urban India.
Abhishek’s work combines his previous training in literary and cultural studies with social anthropology and the ethnographic method to probe changes in the socio-cultural semiotics of everyday life. Abhishek holds a BA (with Honours) and MA in English Literature from the University of Delhi. He was previously at St Antony’s College where he completed the MSc in Modern South Asian Studies programme (with Distinction) and was awarded the Barbara Harriss-White Thesis Prize. He has also taught English and worked with several visual and performance arts organisations in India in the past.