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Oxford Department of International Development Annual Report 2020 OXFORD DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ANNUAL REPORT 2020 THE CHALLENGE CONTENTS n Two-thirds of humankind live in the global South, where most of the world’s worst deprivation is located. Understanding these societies is of central importance to any enquiry into the human condition. n International action to reduce poverty, inequality, and vulnerability of FROM THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT 3 people and nations must be based on critical yet rigorous knowledge. STUDY 4 n Universities have a special duty to create and share this. RESEARCH 9 WHAT WE CAN CONTRIBUTE IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT 17 n The seven postgraduate programmes and five specialised research groups of the Oxford Department of International Development give us EVENTS 23 unequalled depth of scholarship in key themes of this enquiry. PUBLICATIONS 27 n We specialise in academic research and research training, drawing on a worldwide network of partners. We are not constrained by aid agency 32 agendas, and thus can explore new and old problems from a critical PEOPLE standpoint. n Oxford’s engagement with international development is based on the quality of our scholarly research and postgraduate research training, which in turn influences both the global epistemic community and contested policy agendas. n Our interdisciplinary approach has strong roots in Oxford faculties (economics, politics and international relations, anthropology, population health, sociology, history, law, geography, management, and area studies) and multidisciplinary graduate colleges. OUR OBJECTIVES n Influencing the theory, analysis, and practice of development worldwide to the benefit of disadvantaged people and countries; supporting international networks and local institutions involved in this endeavour. n Worldwide attraction of the best postgraduate students; recruitment of outstanding scholars to faculty; adding to our network of leading development research institutions; bringing key visitors to Oxford. n Endowment of scholarships, with a particular focus on enabling students from countries in the global South to read for our degrees. Laura Ertmer, MPhil in Development Studies 2007-09 Studies MPhil in Development Ertmer, Laura 3 FROM THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT WELCOME TO THE 2020 ODID REPORT seminars we held. Take our Oxford We look with some trepidation but also Development Talks, a public engagement much excitement to the future ahead. series that provided many colleagues The next academic year will not be easy with the opportunity to present their as we try to implement a hybrid teaching ideas in a relatively short format to a large model, while providing an enriching audience; you can find presentations on experience to a new generation of a diversity of topics, from the impact of students and keeping everyone safe. The COVID-19 on global poverty to the role department is looking forward to working of Islam in a changing world; from China´s on some issues that are fundamental development strategy to evaluations of for our everyday lives as well as our migration controls. Moving to the online research agendas. We aim to deepen world also had a big advantage: we our teaching and research on climate could reach a wider audience as well as change, while simultaneously reviewing benefiting from participation by speakers our own environmental practices. We are from all over the world, from Nigeria to also committed to advancing our anti- the Mexico City. racism agenda, promoting a conversation on the interactions between racism and Despite all the difficulties, our research development, and critically evaluating our centres continued working hard and own practices in all areas from teaching This has been an eventful year to say accumulating recognition. Let me just to hiring. the least! The COVID-19 pandemic highlight a few examples: OPHI was and the subsequent lockdown changed awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, The years ahead will be particularly our lives in big and small ways. Some of while Young Lives secured new funding difficult for marginalised communities my colleagues and students had to deal from DFID for new rounds of their survey. across the globe. The world faces with the consequences of the virus and Both centres, as well as TMCD and the mounting challenges, including economic support those affected in their families. RSC, have also undertaken path-breaking divergence between the global North and In March, from one day to another, we research on the impact of COVID-19 South, growing authoritarian politics, and closed our building in Mansfield Road that will inform medium and long-term inequality of income and opportunities. I and moved all our teaching and research responses to the current crisis. On the am convinced that our work is particularly online. Many students went back to their following pages, you can also read about important in this kind of environment: home countries where they prepared the new grants and prizes that individual training great students, promoting critical for their exams and wrote their theses. researchers – at all stages of their careers research, building horizontal alliances They later replaced their nervous walk to – have received over the past year, as with partners in different countries, and the Exams School wearing sub fusc with well as the books and articles they have contributing to policy debates should exams taken online from their bedrooms. published. all be helpful activities as we imagine a different future. I am so impressed with how the ODID We are extremely proud of our students’ community has risen to the challenge. My accomplishments. Sixteen DPhil students At a personal level, it has been a pleasure colleagues had to suddenly combine home completed this year: the list of their to be at the helm of such an inspiring teaching with online supervision; students thesis titles showcases the diversity of group of people at such a challenging lost access to the library and to personal topics, their multidisciplinary breadth time. I have learnt a lot during my first interactions with their classmates; and intellectual and policy relevance. Our year as Head of Department and I am seminars in Oxford were suspended and MPhil and MSc students produced first- thankful for the support of colleagues new online seminar series launched; and rate work: their results this year were as and students. I would particularly like to new revision classes and online social good as in the past if not better, despite acknowledge all the contributions from activities were designed from one day to all the obstacles they faced. They are Chris Adams, my predecessor in the the next. now moving to a real world that needs post, and hope I can follow his example them more than ever to design more during the rest of my term as Head of This annual report offers a number inclusive policies and build a better post- Department. of examples of some of the exciting COVID-19 world. Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea 31 July 2020 Alexander Betts Alexander STUDY 5 235 OUR COURSES STUDY students DOCTORAL STUDY Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the School of Anthropology and Museum The DPhil in International Development Ethnography. provides an opportunity for outstanding students to pursue in-depth research into We support our students in processes of social, political, and economic a variety of ways: through development and change in the global funding to meet their South. The DPhil in Migration Studies needs at various stages 7 offers students the chance to focus on of their research; via degree a specific and important contemporary a dedicated study challenge facing the world. area, the Loft, which courses provides a friendly Our DPhil students are able to draw on and welcoming space the expertise of scholars in a wide variety for peer support and of disciplines and a range of regional networking; and by specialisms, particularly in Africa, Asia, and providing dedicated Latin America. Our research groups also guidance from the Students provide a rich source of data and case- Director of Doctoral from study material. For Migration Studies, our Research, who is available students benefit from the involvement for student assistance and of two renowned research centres: consultation. We also now offer 52 the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at students the chance to undertake countries ODID and the Centre on Migration, doctoral study on a part-time basis. The following DPhil students completed* their doctoral work during 2019/20 86% Mihika Chatterjee, Green Templeton Adil Hossain, Merton (pictured above) Blair Peruniak, St Edmund Hall Land for industry: state-society In search of citizens in Citizennagar: the A republican theory of political asylum students relations in agrarian Maharashtra politics of contingent citizenship in the from outside aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots in Greta Semplici, Lady Margaret Hall Frances Cossar, St Antony’s India Moving deserts: stories of mobilities © Young Lives / Mulugeta Gebrekidan / Mulugeta Lives © Young the UK Agricultural development, and resilience from a Kenyan mechanisation, and rental markets: Sa’eed Husaini, St John’s desertscape, Turkana County The department offers two doctoral DPhils in International Development theory and empirics from Ghana Beyond stomach infrastructure: party programmes, a two-year MPhil and Migration Studies, on other membership and political ideology in Claire Walkey, St Anne’s course, and four nine-month MSc doctoral programmes in Oxford, and Sherine El Taraboulsi, St Cross Nigeria’s Fourth Republic Building
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