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.”
Séverine Deneulin is Associate Fellow in International Development at ODID, and Director of International Development at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute, Campion Hall.
Her research is in the area of development ethics, focusing on the works in ethics and economics by Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Her research seeks to bring the social sciences in dialogue with religious traditions on matters of global socio-economic development and sustainability. Her regional expertise is Latin America. She is currently working on a research project on the role of faith communities as civil society actors in natural resource governance.
Her books include Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition (Routledge, 2021), Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics (Routledge, 2014), Religion in Development (with Masooda Bano, Zed Books 2009). She has published many articles on development ethics and religion in development, including in World Development, Third World Quarterly, Development and Change.
Prior to coming to ODID, she was Associate Professor of International Development at the University of Bath. Séverine holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, and a MSc in Economics from the University of Louvain in her native Belgium.
Séverine coordinates the Core Course in the MPhil in Development Studies at ODID, and lectures in it on poverty and human development. She is co-convening an elective course on ‘Valuing Nature: Ethical Frameworks and Policy Implications’ at the School of Geography and the Environment. She is also contributing to the Climate Change Questions from the Global South optional course at ODID.
Climate change, natural resource extraction, social movements, religion and faith communities