Find out more about our members and the research we undertake at the Centre for Development Studies.
Our research created the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP). This helps to improve lives by effectively assessing international development assistance projects.
Find out more about current and past research from the Centre for Development Studies. View our researchers with an active interest in this area.
Find out more about our current and past research from the Centre for Development Studies. View researchers with an active interest in this area.
Find out more about the current and past research looking into conflict, migration and humanitarian action.
Find out more about the current and past research in the Centre for Development Studies. View researchers with an active interest in this area.
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Our newsletters showcase members' and associates' activities, events, research and publications.
The Bath Papers in International Development and Wellbeing is a series of papers published by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS).
Read about the work of our researchers in our blog
Find out about the Centre and its members.
Our members are mainly located within the Department of Social & Policy Sciences. We welcome members from across the University of Bath and beyond.
Our staff in the Centre for Development Studies are involved in researching aspects of development across the globe.
Find out more about the Bath Research in International Development (BRID) fund.
We are delighted to announce the new BRID Fund, designed to help students and researchers engage with international development policy and practice.
Doctoral students can access up to £2000 to cover fieldwork or conference costs.
Watch past CDS events and find our more about our activities.
Professor Jem Bendell presents his theory of Deep Adaptation, in a talk hosted by the CBOS and the Centre for Development Studies
hosted by the University of Bath IPR and Centre for Development Studies, and Coventry University's Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations
Watch this joint event held by Coventry University's Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations and the University of Bath Centre for Development Studies
Stephan Haggard, Professor of Political Science, delivers a lecture about the concept of Developmental States, with reference to China and East Asia.
Find out more about what our researchers have been up to recently.
The first round of the MENASP-CP GCRF Research Fund is now open.
A two-minute film, produced by Bath’s Roy Maconachie and Simon Wharf, has won the Grand Jury Prize at the international ‘Let’s talk about water’ film awards.
A team from Bath’s Centre for Development Studies are fundraising for the communities they work closely with in India severely affected by the pandemic.
New research into the acute impacts of COVID in Gaza argues that the international community must respond urgently to the unfolding crisis.
Dr Dorte Thorsen and Professor Roy Maconachie disccuss child labour and cocoa farming in West Africa.
Dr Shahid Perwez was a Centre for Development Studies Research Fellow between 2012 and 2014
The Centre for Development Studies (CDS) brings together staff, students and associates of the University of Bath. Much of our work is focussed on the interaction between change at local, national and global levels; the dynamics of inequality, poverty, gender and other forms of discrimination; the importance (and challenge) of doing research spanning different academic disciplines and retaining academic independence while also engaging directly in policy, practice and power relations.
Contact us to find out more about our research.