After a lot of interesting theorising in the first day or so of the conference, I felt the need to stretch my legs a bit and attend something really practical. Little did I know that my quest to hear about the nitty-gritty of development research…

Geof Wood, Professor and Dean at the Facalty of Humanities and Social Science at The University of Bath, talks with Louise Stoddard about his role in organising the conference and where he hopes the DSA can go from here….

Andrew Steer, Director General for Policy and Research at the British Department for International Development talks with The Broker about the DFID White Paper, his plenary session at DSA and about how the DSA can work with DFID in the future….

On the last day of the conference the final plenary for DSA 2009 was taken by Andrew Steer, Director General, Research and Policy, DFID and Roy Trivedy, Team Leader, White Paper Team. Together they presented the new DFID white paper which addresse…

I just returned from Coleraine and the Development Studies Association Annual Conference. Lots of interesting papers and presentations: Charles Gore on new global paradigms (knowledge-dominated), Santosh Mehotra from the Indian Planning Commision…

Alistar Scott from ID21 talks with The Broker about the importance of knowledge services for development.

Andrew Fischer talks to the Broker about his impressions from the DSA.

David Hudson from University College London talks about his presentation ‘What would Keynes do? Keynsian International Monetary Reform and Development’ at the DSA…

The issue of how to embed research in the policy process is and has been, a key concern within the development community for some time. At the DSA yesterday Chris Whitty from the British Department for International Development (DFID) proposed a v…

Robert Chambers talks with The Broker about his impressions from the DSA conference…