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.”
Theodor is a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Department of International Development. He is widely interested in topics of sustainability and indigenous rights, as well as in critical approaches to development. His research project studies the influence of beings beyond the human (e.g., animals, plants, or spirits) on the formation and transmission of environmental ethics in the Amazon region.
Theodor joined the department in October 2019. Prior to coming to Oxford, Theodor read for postgraduate degrees in Economics (University of Warwick, 2019) and International Political Economy (King’s College London, 2017), as well as for an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Economics (University of Münster, 2015). Over the course of his studies, he interned with non-governmental organisations in Peru and Cameroon and with the Institute of Environment and Human Security of the United Nations University.
Theodor holds a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation).
Amazonia, anthropology of ethics, critical development studies, ecological economics, environmental ethics, indigenous rights, ontological anthropology, political ecology, sustainability