Attending #DSA2026?
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✔️ Includes meals, sessions & reception
✔️ Programme & timetable now live
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Al jazeera analyses the OECD datasets and notes research showing that cuts to US funding have corresponded with increase in armed conflict in Africa, as state resources grow more scarce.
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Preliminary data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has found that international development aid from its members dropped by about 23 percent from 2024 to 2025.
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Research from @odi.global goes beyond the false binary of "development or climate", and looks at the specific investments that developing countries are seeking.
Full report:
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A new @britishcouncil.bsky.social report examines how 25 countries use culture, education & diplomacy to build global influence 🌍
Even as defence spending rises, investment in soft power remains key to shaping opinion & securing advantage.
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What does the future of development look like?
At #DSA2026 we’re tackling:
🌱 Just transitions
⚖️ Decolonising knowledge
🤝 Local agency & global cooperation
📊 Digital governance
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📢 @odid-qeh.bsky.social is hiring a Programme Coordinator to support the Oxford Sanctuary Community—working with students & staff with lived experience of displacement (refugees, asylum seekers & more).
⏰ Apply by 23 April
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Fragmenting world worsens finance squeeze, reversing decades of progress on development, UN report warns
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From senior scholars to emerging voices, #DSA2026 brings together a truly global development community 🌍
20+ countries
700+ papers
1 shared challenge: reimagining development
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Much of the global conversation around the escalating conflict in the Middle East has focused on oil prices, shipping routes & international politics but these talking points are overshadowing how the fighting is affecting hundreds of millions of civilians
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🎓 Students interested in an MSc in Interational Development at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social still have till 4 May 2026 to apply: buff.ly/JvOYFfp
💻 Apply before 12 July for the online learning MSc or attend their info days in May: buff.ly/GVRwv0R
"Let's start a conversation on this ubiquitous but understudied part of the knowledge production infrastructure in which we operate.” Portia Roelofs
📅 Open discussion: 21 April 2026
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“We can’t get major donors to provide funding for the Afghanistan response because the focus now is on Lebanon.”
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📚 @kings-sga.bsky.social produces Spheres of Knowledge: a free Substack distilling the latest development research
📝 Daily 600-word summaries + weekly roundups, straight to your inbox
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📍 Heading to #DSA2026? Book your Dublin accommodation NOW!
Rooms will fill quickly — don’t get caught out.
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📢 New workshop series from @eadi.bsky.social + DSA on land, labour & food 🌍
Join the next session, a Book talk: Climate shocks & pastoralist migration in South Sudan, with @jongethon.bsky.social from @crisisgroup.org
📅 30 April
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✨ Fola Aina, @naomihossain.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh are some of the @soasdevelopment.bsky.social researchers contributing expert analysis to emerging issues in Nigeria, Bangladesh and Iran.
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Do LGRCs deliver the transformative research they promise? Or are there unintended outcomes of this concentration of research funding?
📅 Open discussion: 21 April 2026
Panel:
✨ Indrajit Roy
✨ Portia Roelofs
✨ Eyob Balcha Gebremariam
✨ @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social
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🌱 Innovators wanted!
Nature’s Intelligence Ideathon, jointly organised by @tidecentre.bsky.social, supports early-stage, bioinspired solutions to sustainability challenges across Latin America & the Caribbean.
⏳ Apply by 26 April:
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We were saddened to learn of the death earlier this year of Professor Paul Mosley, President of the DSA, 1998-2001
David Hulme reflects on Paul Mosley’s career: buff.ly/NNEZ6JZ
🚨 Early bird registration for #DSA2026 is OPEN
Join 700+ papers exploring:
Power, agency & futures in an uncertain world
💸 Prices increase on 1 June
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DSA Council member Eyob Balcha Gebremariam writes about the dominance of the development frame and academic passport positionality on the @EADI blog.
He says these are at least two of the blind spots in discussions about equitable partnerships.
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📚 A new book by Theo Papaioannou explores why justice needs to be imbedded in innovation and development.
Plus research on:
🔹 entrepreneurial welfare state
🔹 innovations in health care
🔹 innovation ecosystems
🔹 FGM/C
All @openuniversity.bsky.social news:
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"Every effort to breathe the air of equity and justice into the life of research collaborations is smothered by the multiple waves of power imbalances that emerge from the development episteme"
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2519
Cover of The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies announcing a search for a new editor to lead the academic journal. The Editor receives an annual honorarium of £3,000. The Editor will serve a term of five years in the first instance, renewable for additional one-year terms by mutual agreement, starting in December 2026, with a six-month handover period beginning in July 2026.
Detailed job description for an editorial role at BRISMES, outlining peer review oversight and editorial responsibilities. Applications should consist of a letter outlining the candidate's editorial experience, and their vision for the journal (maximum two pages) in addition to a CV. Applications should be sent to office@brismes.org by 17:00 (UK time) on 15 April 2026.
BRISMES is looking to appoint a new Editor to lead the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) 🎉
An exciting opportunity to refresh the journal and provide research leadership in critical scholarship in Middle East Studies 📚
Full details are attached and here 👉 https://ow.ly/OHu950YFsee
UK development minister: Campaign groups ‘wrong’ on Africa aid cuts - free to read on @devex.com
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With creative accounting and inflation, cuts to climate finance is nearly half of previous commitments.
@carbonbrief.org
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📢 @soas-dld.bsky.social : Call for Applications for the next Future Leaders Programme
Future Leaders Programme 14: Industrial Policy for Structural Transformation in the Global South
⏰ Apply by Monday 20 April
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Forced and insufficient, the United Nations-led humanitarian reset nonetheless offers a coherent response to the financial crisis so painfully disrupting the sector. Or does it? @odi.global
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Following our recent workshops for racially minoritised early-career academics, we urge those in our sector to hear their voices and work with us on better futures.
Read the blog by Chidinma Mbaegbu:
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