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Welcome to the
Centre of Development Studies

Introduction

The tradition of research and teaching on development at Cambridge goes back at least to the 1930s, when some of those who were later to be the founding fathers in the field studied here as graduate students under John Maynard Keynes.  In the eighty years since then research and teaching in the subject has taken place across many faculties and departments, especially Economics, Social and Political Sciences, Social Anthropology, Geography, Land Economy, the Judge Business School, and the Centres of African, South Asia, Latin American and International Studies.  Today the University offers a wide range of opportunities for postgraduate training and research for students looking towards a career in development in the research field, in policy-making, in national and multilateral institutions, and in non-governmental organisations as well as in the private sector and business.

After many years operating as the Development Studies Committee, the Centre of Development Studies was formally established in January 2012 as an independent centre within the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). We have close links with the other area centres within POLIS:

• Centre of African Studies
• Centre of Latin American Studies
• Centre of South Asian Studies

The Centre of Development Studies provides a focus for students wishing to undertake an MPhil or PhD in the area of development. We continue to provide interdisciplinary training where content and style have kept abreast with the changing reality of the developing world, and the changing requirements of those seeking to make a career in the development field.

Contact

Centre of Development Studies
2nd floor
Alison Richard Building
7 West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DT

Telephone + 44 (0)1223 337158

Email: devstudies-adm@lists.cam.ac.uk

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