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.”
Gina is a Senior Researcher within Young Lives, an innovative, multidisciplinary, cohort study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. Her scholarship is positioned at the intersection of Anthropology, Childhood Studies and International Development. In Young Lives, Gina leads a child-focussed qualitative, longitudinal research component that uses ‘team ethnography’ to track over 200 children and families over a seven-year period across the study countries. She contributes to methodological innovation by developing, reflecting and publishing on methods and ethical approaches for engaging children and families in policy-relevant social research.
Gina also leads Young Lives work stream on Gender, Adolescence and Youth. Her current research uses qualitative longitudinal data to explore the dynamics of gender inequality across the second decade of life and in transitions to early adulthood. Her most recent work addresses aspirations; children’s unpaid work and care work; migration and mobility; boys and masculinity; transitions; ethics of care; and gender and generational power. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California and has carried out research in Ethiopia, India, Morocco, Peru, Spain and Vietnam.
Gina teaches the ‘Children, Youth and Development’ option course on the MPhil in Development Studies.