International Development Studies

International Development Studies is anchored by a concern about global inequalities and seeks ways of understanding them, critiquing them, and possibly overcoming them.
The Master Programme addresses issues such as poverty, conflict, security, land rights, gender inequality, education, sustainable development, and climate change, among others, and seeks to draw links between local conditions – in both rural and urban settings – with national and global processes. While stimulating students to think academically and critically about the challenges development brings, it also provides tools for exploring development through governance approaches at multiple levels of scale, inclusive development approaches, through discourse, and through popular and contested representations of what development is and means to different groups of people around the world.It is an interdisciplinary programme and draws on scholary work from Anthropology, Economics, Social and Human Geography, Political Sc...

International Development Studies is anchored by a concern about global inequalities and seeks ways of understanding them, critiquing them, and possibly overcoming them.
The Master Programme addresses issues such as poverty, conflict, security, land rights, gender inequality, education, sustainable development, and climate change, among others, and seeks to draw links between local conditions – in both rural and urban settings – with national and global processes. While stimulating students to think academically and critically about the challenges development brings, it also provides tools for exploring development through governance approaches at multiple levels of scale, inclusive development approaches, through discourse, and through popular and contested representations of what development is and means to different groups of people around the world.It is an interdisciplinary programme and draws on scholary work from Anthropology, Economics, Social and Human Geography, Political Science, and International Relations. Both the staff and students come from these various backgrounds and contribute to an academically and culturally diverse setting. Students can draw on the interdisciplinary background to specialize in certain areas such as education, economics, urban processes, natural resources, sustainable development, and gender, among others.

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