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.”
Dr Wei Wei holds the post of Research Officer at Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD). Wei is part of a team of researchers who are working on the Innovation and Catch Up in the Platform Economy (ICPE) Project. The ICPE project examines the key factors that drive technological innovation and catch up of the world’s leading technology companies (in the digital sector) and which are based in developing countries. The project investigates how innovation ecosystems are developed through using digital platforms. Wei is responsible for conducting qualitative research and the daily running of the ICPE project, organising various dissemination activities such as conferences and seminars and producing research outputs and building research impact.
In February 2021, Wei was awarded a PhD in Management by the University of York. Her PhD is an international and comparative study that examines human resource management and employment relations practices in a multinational enterprise in China and the UK. In addition to her PhD, she has been undertaking research on the digital platform economy in China over the last few years. In March 2021, she was awarded a one-year Visiting Research Fellowship by the ESRC-funded Digit Centre at the University of Sussex Business School.