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.”
Arushi's academic training has been in Political Science, and she completed her BA (Honours) in this discipline from University of Delhi, and her MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Thereafter, she worked at Ashoka University in the state of Haryana, India, as a Teaching Fellow, as a researcher with the Trivedi Centre for Political Data, and then as a Research Guide with the Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associates (CMGGA) programme.
Arushi's DPhil research project at ODID pertains to studying state-business relations at the level of urban local governance, and in the context of urban development in contemporary India. Her academic interests, more generally, include the political economy of development, political institutions, and public policy.
Teaching Fellow for the course ‘Introduction to Comparative Politics’ from August 2019 to December 2019 at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.