As debates over tax, debt, and development intensify in Argentina, @mvbarlow.bsky.social’s new #OpenAccess book with DSA-OUP (@oupacademic.bsky.social) book series offers timely insight into why questions of taxation have become so politically charged. buff.ly/p3FnpGw

Excellent new article in Third World Quarterly by Navtej Purewal & Althea-Maria Rivas on gendered racial capitalism. They critique the “smart economics” approach to gender equity & its colonial legacies. Read here: shorturl.at/ptD9k @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

We're delighted for Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon's book to be recognised by BISA members!

✨ Our friends at @mybisa.bsky.social and @eadi.bsky.social are hosting this Roundtable: Global Development Cooperation at a Crossroads: What Ground Rules for Partnership in a Fragmented World? 📅 28 November 2025, 1-2.30pm UK time 📍 Online - register here: buff.ly/ga76tTK

💡 Is a new paradigm emerging for development cooperation and humanitarian policy? Top scholars explore this in a joint special issue of @odi.global’s Development Policy Review and Disasters. Read more 👉 buff.ly/FkGsQQD

Join us next Monday for Stefania Barca’s talk exploring how workers can drive ecological change, and why climate justice is social justice. 📅 10 Nov, 5pm 📍 SOASVDLT & Zoom Register: shorturl.at/WNDbn @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @soaseconomics.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

Ilias Alami's title in the @oupacademic.bsky.social - DSA book series has just won an award with @mybisa.bsky.social 🏆

📚 In a world where aid budgets are under pressure & global trade faces renewed barriers, @sbrazys_ucd’s The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Access, and Unequal Globalization, one of the latest in the DSA–OUP book series, could not be more timely. @oupacademic.bsky.social buff.ly/Oco8kJG

The Politics of Non-Knowledge: the Deliberate Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid in Gaza (2023-25) Part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice, 2025 from @lseid.bsky.social 📅 28 November Find out more:

✍️ Need focused writing time (and some encouragement)? Join the DSA Student Network’s online Shut Up and Write session — open to all DSA members! 📝 Sign up 👉 buff.ly/V2u0Hb6

Deadline extended! Are you a US-based public health academic working on issues of health equity? If your work is under threat, the Sanctuary for Health Justice initiative at IDS could help. You now have until 30 November to apply 👇 https://ids.pulse.ly/otlnmngso3 #PublicHealth #HealthEquity

With #COP30 around the corner, we're back with our COP blog series! We'll be posting daily insights on the negotiations as they unfold in Belém. First up: Sarah Colenbrander and Shandelle Steadman explore how the world's superpowers are influencing global climate action and implications for COP30.

New online event! Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 4pm GMT / 11am ET, for a book talk on ‘Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down’ with author Prof. Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University). Moderated by Shivangi Kaushik (ODID) Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

7 recommendations from @icai-uk.bsky.social report on #UKaid in Sudan include: ensuring sustained high-level political attention, backing priority status in UK development policy w/ multi-year protected funding, & adopting more agile aid delivery models.

A feminist agenda for social change: from deregulated markets to the wellbeing economy Part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice, 2025 from @lseid.bsky.social 📅 14 November Find out more: buff.ly/J85QA38

The relationships between climate change and land issues are complex. Ahead of #COP30, IDS fellow Ian Scoones argues we must confront who controls land and support approaches that restore ecosystems and strengthen local communities. 👇 https://ids.pulse.ly/xin22cc1wn

📢Calling all DSA members from the Global South. ❓Could you be our next Council rep? 🗳️Nominations open till 3 December. ➡️Full details at: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/11/05/c...

📚 Ben Radley will discuss his book Disrupted Development in the Congo (DSA–OUP series) at King’s College London 📆 19 Novemeber @oupacademic.bsky.social Discussants: Christian Otchia & @ingridhk.bsky.social 🍷 A wine reception will follow, and all are welcome. buff.ly/xcZmuUo

📢Last chance for special issue contributions: the geography of women’s labour force participation Focus on Asia & MENA in Journal of Development Perspectives Co-edited by Niaz Asadullah & Uma Kambhampati www.devstud.org.uk/2025/11/05/c... @eadi.bsky.social

One of the things that makes @soasdevelopment.bsky.social distinctive is its traditional focus on the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East 🌏 Read our Member Spotlight here ⤵️ buff.ly/A8N7bpg

Participatory grants may be the future of aid: so what have the pioneers learned? writes Dominic Vickers on the @bondngo.bsky.social blog buff.ly/Pn0yZ9O

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Tony Addison and Alan Roe, Chaired by: Miguel Nino-Zarazua (SOAS) on: 🎤 Resources Matter: Ending Poverty While Protecting Nature 🗓️ 12 November, 5PM 📍 SOAS, B103 info and livestream🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

"Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s impact is one of the least documented crises of recent years." Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel writes for @uk.theconversation.com: bit.ly/3LuzSxD

Development cooperation at a tipping point: how, why and through what mechanisms do policy norms break? @eadi.bsky.social Blog and @idos-research.bsky.social working paper. By @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social and @andypsumner.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/0EDId2N

The Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture 2025 - Truth and Trust: The Vital Role of Social Science in a Divided World. ✨ Part of @acadsocsciences.bsky.social 📅 20 November, 18.30-20.30 📍 Bush House, London Find out more and register: buff.ly/5172e1y

🚀 Cutting edge issues in development thinking and practice from @lseid.bsky.social 💫 Catch up on Ha-Joon Chang and Richard Kozul-Wright discussing a New New International Economic Order for a New Global Economy. All LSE news: buff.ly/vECJiQh

"Through collaborating with a university, we’ve got this methodology whereby I can credibly suggest that we pay trained residents instead of consultants.” Dominic Murphy, Principal

📢 Book Talk": The Long Heat, Climate Politics When It’s Too Late Join Andreas Malm & Wim Carton for a vital discussion on climate politics in the age of overshoot. 📅 Nov 6 | 🕕 6-8PM GMT 📍KCL, Strand Campus, London 🎟️ Free tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/publi...

New book forum published in the @geographers.bsky.social Review of Books, with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social Link below👇:

✍️ Need focused writing time (and some encouragement)? Join the DSA Student Network’s online Shut Up and Write session — open to all DSA members! 📝 Sign up 👉 buff.ly/V2u0Hb6

Our very own @mvbarlow.bsky.social will be launching his excellent new book next week with discussant Ronnie Munck of @dublincityuni.bsky.social. The event is being held by Political and International Studies @uofgsps.bsky.social on Thu 6 Nov, 4-5.30pm, in Room 718, 42 Bute Gardens. Join us!

💥New: Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education? ✍️ @proftjcurry.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky #BlackHistoryMonth

A new inquiry into the future of the UK’s international aid and development assistance programmes has been launched by the International Development Committee. ⏳ You can submit evidence until Friday 14 November 2025.

✨ Reflections from a middle-aged-early-career-researcher✨ Jenni Argent, Doctoral Researcher in Climate Change and Humanitarian Relief, University of Edinburgh, writes about her experience of the DSA Scotland Study Group Symposium. Read more: buff.ly/9AFUYxq

🎙️ Mariz Tadros @ids.ac.uk & Laura Camfield @kings-sga.bsky.social discuss decolonising knowledge, including experiences in contexts where they are indigenous or non-indigenous scholars, and alternatives to the current development knowledge ecosystem 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/cPwJPY2

In our latest blog post, Laura Camfield (@kings-sga.bsky.social) argues that social science fiction can be more than "an opportunity to cultivate empathy, but also as a robust methodological tool for development research." www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387

"The return of Donald Trump marks a potential normative tipping point in global development cooperation. To explain this, we set out four key arguments that together describe how norms break, what replaces them, and why it matters" ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2365

📚 Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia will be discussed in a webinar with @globaldevinst.bsky.social's Tania Bastia and co-author Claudia Calsina 📆 7 Nov 2025 ✨ More information and to register: buff.ly/PWxcC6J ✨ All GDI news: buff.ly/8hepzaX

Ahead of the upcoming elections in Argentina @mvbarlow.bsky.social discussed the impact on the financial markets and investment in @france24.com www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...

As debates over tax, debt, and development intensify in Argentina, @mvbarlow.bsky.social’s new #OpenAccess book with DSA-OUP (@oupacademic.bsky.social) book series offers timely insight into why questions of taxation have become so politically charged. buff.ly/p3FnpGw

Learn how to assess the impact of your programs with @ids.ac.uk's 5-day in-person course on Contribution Analysis for Impact Evaluation 📅 12–16 Jan 2026 📍 IDS, Brighton, UK Gain practical tools to show how your interventions contribute to change. Apply: bit.ly/47SmZGL

✨ Our friends at @mybisa.bsky.social and @eadi.bsky.social are hosting this Roundtable: Global Development Cooperation at a Crossroads: What Ground Rules for Partnership in a Fragmented World? 📅 28 November 2025, 1-2.30pm UK time 📍 Online - register here: buff.ly/ga76tTK

New from @britishcouncil.bsky.social What are the aspirations and challenges for young people in Kazakhstan? How can culture drive change? These questions (and more!) answered in the latest Next Generation report and the recent podcast 🎙️ All news: buff.ly/GT79Vco

First-time author? Before submitting, learn key tips for success. From aligning your paper with a journal's scope, to clear writing and navigating peer reviews, read the @devcomms.bsky.social blog for great tips from the Development in Practice journal editors 🔽

So privileged to have these two reviewing my book for this forum!

Join us this Thursday for @terminalias.bsky.social's book launch! Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure 📅30 Oct, 5pm, SWLT Register here➡️: shorturl.at/OGUoh @soasuni.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

📚 In a world where aid budgets are under pressure & global trade faces renewed barriers, @sbrazys_ucd’s The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Access, and Unequal Globalization, one of the latest in the DSA–OUP book series, could not be more timely. @oupacademic.bsky.social buff.ly/Oco8kJG

💡 Is a new paradigm emerging for development cooperation and humanitarian policy? Top scholars explore this in a joint special issue of @odi.global’s Development Policy Review and Disasters. Read more 👉 buff.ly/FkGsQQD

🗳️ The DSA will soon hold an online election for Global South members to choose a new Council representative. This seat is currently held by Tuesday Gichuki, who has completed two impactful terms. More info: buff.ly/L7NYKPz

✍️ Need focused writing time (and some encouragement)? Join the DSA Student Network’s online Shut Up and Write session — open to all DSA members! 📝 Sign up 👉 buff.ly/V2u0Hb6