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.”
Bryony is part-time administrator for the Oxford SDG Impact Lab.
Bryony was previously the project administrator for the European Research Council Funded project ‘Refugees are Migrants: Refugee Mobility, Recognition and Rights’ where she was responsible for coordinating project-related communications, periodic reporting to the ERC, organising workshops and events and editorial assistance on project outputs.
Bryony previously worked in the Department of Politics as Programme Officer for the ESRC Public Services Programme and as a Research Assistant in the Department of Social Policy. Bryony has been a researcher on a number of European Commission-funded projects concerned with highly skilled mobility, ‘brain drain’, and the circulation and return of researchers within the EU including undertaking an Impact Assessment of the Marie Curie Fellowship Programme (FP4/5). She is co-author of ‘Moving People and Knowledge: Scientific Mobility in an Enlarging European Union’, (Edward Elgar, 2008)
She holds an MA in Politics of International Resources and Development and a BA in Social Policy.