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The Development Policy and Practice Group carries out research in development studies and development management, and co-hosts the ESRC INNOGEN Research Centre on innovation in life sciences which is run jointly with the University of Edinburgh.
The group has extensive networks within and outside the University. In the UK the group works closely with academics from a range of development studies institutes and with a consortium of non-governmental organisations. Internationally, it has research and teaching collaborations with staff and institutions from more than 20 countries. It has developed a facilitative capacity to bring people together to work in new programmes, courses and research.
We offer two research degree programmes: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of Philosophy (MPhil).
Key facts
- The Group is recognised for its internationally excellent research on innovation and development and for its growing research profile in other areas
Further information
If you have an enquiry specific to this research area please contact:
- Name:
- Courtney Courtnage
- Email:
- mct-ddem-enquiries@open.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1908 655799
For general enquiries please contact the Research Degrees Team via the link under ‘Your questions’ on the right of the page.
Publications
Research publications by Open University staff are available through Open Research Online (ORO), the university's repository of research publications and other research outputs. ORO can be searched or browsed by staff name or subject.
The following list, generated from ORO, provides a flavour of the most recently published work in Development Studies:
- Levidow, Les and Papaioannou, Theo (2013). State imaginaries of the public good: shaping UK innovation priorities for bioenergy. Environmental Science & Policy, 30 pp. 36–49.
- Mohan, Giles (2013). Migrants as agents of South-South Cooperation: the case of Chinese in Africa. In: Dargin, Justin ed. The Rise Of The Global South: Philosophical, Geopolitical and Economic Trends of the 21st Century. London: World Scientific, (In press).
- Papaioannou, Theo and Butcher, Melissa eds. (2013). International Development in a Changing World. The Open University's International Development series. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Wield, David; Hanlin, Rebecca; Mittra, James and Smith, James (2013). Twenty-first century bioeconomy: global challenges of biological knowledge for health and agriculture. Science and Public Policy, 40(1) pp. 17–24.
- Levidow, Les (2013). EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder. Geoforum, 44(1) pp. 211–223.
- More publications relating to Development Studies
Research degrees
Your questions
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