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.”
Pratim Ghosal is a DPhil candidate in International Development. Previously Pratim completed a BA in Political Science from Presidency College, Kolkata, India and an MA and MPhil in Political Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. For his MPhil dissertation, he worked on the dynamic interactions between the state, capital and labour in the tea gardens of North Bengal, India. The work principally focussed on these relations in the contemporary period which is marked by deepened precarity caused by the informalisation of labour and the closures of tea gardens.
Apart from these academic pursuits, Pratim has contributed to various online platforms, writing on contemporary political issues and appeared on a number of debates on key public issues in India. He previously received the UGC-Junior Research Fellowship in 2016 and received the Felix Scholarship in 2019 to pursue the DPhil program at ODID.
Political Economy of Development, Authoritarianism and Populism, Politics of Work and Labour, State-Society Relations.