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.”
Sibongile Zulu is a DPhil candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford. She holds an MPhil in African Studies from the University of Cambridge and a BA(Hons) in Politics and International Relations from Queen Mary, University of London.
She was born and raised in South Africa, and emigrated to the UK with her family, at the age of 13. She has a broad range of interests, including the politics of Southern Africa, global health security, and the politics of identity and rights.
She worked as Chief Coordinator for Nile Consulting, and as a freelance politics writer at TheSouthAfrican.com
She is an Abdul Raufu Mustapha Departmental Scholar, in the Department of International Development.
Citizenship, postcolonial citizenship, political subjectivities, politics of rights, politics of recognition, gender, space, ethnicity, power.