As we approach the start of the academic year, Course Director Madeleine Reeves shares her top tips for making the most of the MSc in Migration Studies at Oxford - whether you’re already joining the course or considering applying. ➡️Madeleine's tips in full: www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/how-...

In developing countries, nearly half of children under 5 are multidimensionally poor, undernourished, or both Read more in OPHI's new report, which unpacks multidimensional poverty measurement to explore child deprivations in nutrition and schooling: bit.ly/OPHIchildrep...

Nesrine Malik has written in The Guardian about 'Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire', the memoir by Simukai Chigudu (Associate Professor of African Politics). Read it here: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...

Chasing Freedom: a poignant reflection on empire, education and parental expectations

Simukai Chigudu’s filmic memoir details the confines and conflicts of growing up in Zimbabwe during political turmoil

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New article by Erick Moreno Superlano (with F. Llinas Casas): “Building on Loren Landau’s ‘chronotope of containment’, this article introduces the concept of ‘cartographic extensions’ to analyse intra-diasporic divisions among the Venezuelan community in the US.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bypassing the Brokers of Modernity: Cartographic Extensions and Nomadic Power Among Venezuelans in the US

Since the approval of Temporary Protected Status in 2021, low-income and racialised Venezuelan migrants have entered the US, a space previously perceived as reserved for Venezuela’s upper and middl...

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New @cgdev.org blog, co-authored by Young Lives' Kath Ford, draws on our long-running research in Peru & the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty report on what works to reduce child poverty to explore lessons from two decades of progress in reducing child poverty. www.cgdev.org/blog/how-red...

🆕 Microfinance: Where do we stand 20 years on from the Nobel Peace Prize? 📢 Today on Economics Unpacked w/ @simonrquinn.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social) & @muhammadmeki.bsky.social (@odid-qeh.bsky.social): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISq2...

Microfinance: Where do we stand 20 years on from the Nobel Peace Prize?

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There's still time to sign up for the Oxford Development Economics Summer School running 7-11 Sept 2026. Explore the central ideas & evidence that economists use to understand global poverty & sustainable development. Course tutor: @stefanocaria.bsky.social www.economics.ox.ac.uk/development-...

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"The Gulf’s next security order will depend not only on weapons or alliances, but on the economic ties it chooses to build." Adeel Malik (ODID) & Ibrahim Jamal Haidar (Lebanese American University) write for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

Why the Gulf Needs Economic Ties with Iran

Adeel Malik & Jamal Ibrahim Haidar argue that durable peace in the region requires making the costs of violent conflict prohibitively high.

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Congratulations to Professor @alexanderbetts.bsky.social, Associate Professor Naohiko Omata, Dr Jade Siu and Associate Professor @oliviersterck.bsky.social on the publication of their new open access book! The Refugee Trap: The Economics of Displacement www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Writing in the journal Contemporary Political Theory, Karolin Tuncel (& Tobias Müller, University of Cambridge) argue against dismissing intersectional feminism’s capacity to conceptualise religious agency. Read their paper on religion & intersectional theory here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Is religion a problem for intersectional theory? Muslim women, feminism, and varieties of patriarchy - Contemporary Political Theory

Intersectional theory has been criticised for neglecting religion and for being unable to account for religion’s social complexities. This contribution interrogates this critique by disaggregating dif...

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Join our next seminar with the Institute for International Economic Policy to hear from OPHI’s Sabina Alkire & Lhachi Selden about what a truly global measure of wellbeing might look like. 16 June | 4pm BST | 11am EDT In person: Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House Online: bit.ly/16JuneSeminar

Prof Sabina Alkire, Director of @ophioxford.bsky.social, discusses why the UN’s new Beyond GDP framework could reshape how the world measures progress – and the five factors that will determine its success. Find out more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4uY8REE

New from @undp.org & the TIDE Centre: ‘The Energy Sprint of the AI Race: A Green Window of Opportunity for Developing Countries?’ AI offers a powerful opportunity to enhance the effectiveness of sustainable energy efforts—if deployed responsibly. Read the report here: www.undp.org/publications...

The Energy Sprint of the AI Race

This paper explores how AI can enhance decision-making, optimize energy systems, and enable more inclusive, data-driven policy and planning in low- and middle-income countries.

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📢 Young Lives is recruiting! Join our friendly, supportive team as a Quantitative Research Assistant & be part of a unique longitudinal study of poverty & inequality in Ethiopia, India, Peru & Vietnam, since 2002. Application link in the comments. @odid-qeh.bsky.social #job #vancancy #researcher

🥳 We're celebrating our 40th anniversary this weekend. Watch the event live at @blavatnikschool.bsky.social on Saturday 06 June from 09:30 to 18:00 (BST) www.youtube.com/live/BecQerg... 👀 View the programme: csae.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/cs... 📽️ Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/BecQerg...

CSAE 40th Anniversary

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Congratulations to Prof Xiaolan Fu & the OxValue.AI team! OxValue.AI received two Highly Commended awards at the Financial Times PWM Wealth Tech Awards 2026 in April, and is one of the Top 60 innovations selected for inclusion in the UN’s STI Solutions Book. Read more: bit.ly/4uyORrt

When conflict erupted in northern Ethiopia in 2020, @odid-qeh.bsky.social’s Young Lives was the only longitudinal study collecting real-time data in Tigray & Amhara. Four years on, new evidence shows the devastating impact on two generations. Read more: buff.ly/HbK5WYd

New in European Security, Corneliu Bjola examines (with Francesca L Vaselli) how Ukrainian state-affiliated and civil-society actors deploy virtual reality to shape perceptions of the conflict, defend cultural heritage and mobilise transnational solidarity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Virtual reality as strategic communication: cultural defence in wartime Ukraine

Amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, immersive media have emerged as a new instrument of strategic communication. This article examines how Ukrainian state-affiliated and civil-society act...

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Many congratulations to ODID MPhil students Amalia Ghina Alfiya, Khin Thazin, and Sua Cho who were awarded the Sir Winston Churchill Prize at the 2026 Entente Cordiale University Challenge. Find out more about their project on nickel mining in West Papua here www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/news/mphil-t...

📢 New! 'Atlas of Uncertainty: Transforming African Cityscapes' is an exhibition at the Origins Centre, Witwatersrand University from 18 April to 3 July. This is a collaborative project of the Oxford/Wits Mobility Governance Lab and the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS). bit.ly/41G2CID

New job opportunities here at ODID! We are currently recruiting for the following: • Research and Innovation Associate in African History • Departmental Lectureship in Politics • Departmental Lectureship in Technology and International Development Details: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/content/vaca...

Young Lives' Deputy Director Kath Ford discusses why investing in adolescent girls is essential for building inclusive, resilient, climate-adaptive societies on @socialprotection.org's latest #SPpodcast. 🎧 Listen via the link 👇 @odid-qeh.bsky.social @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social #podcast

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🎙️ 🎧 New #SPpodcast Episode – Listen now to “Supporting Adolescent Girls Through Social Protection: a Turning Point for Inclusion”: buff.ly/NqmbA17 ▶️🎧

New job opportunity at @refugeestudies.bsky.social ! Programme Coordinator for the University’s Oxford Sanctuary Community Providing support to individuals at the University who have lived experience of displacement. Deadline: 23 April. Details: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc...

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What is driving the sweeping transformation of land use across Africa – and how should we make sense of it? In a new ODID blog, Phillan Zamchiya introduces the concept of globalised extractive territorialisation. Read it here: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/blog/contemp...

📘 25 years. Four countries. One powerful evidence base New reports set out over two decades of research across #Ethiopia #India #Peru & #Vietnam—covering education, health & well-being, employment & family lives. 🔗 Explore the evidence shaping policy & practice: www.younglives.org.uk/publications...

Palestine Refugees and International Law short course – in Istanbul! Due to government advisories against travel to Lebanon, we have moved our short course on Palestine Refugees and International Law from Beirut to Istanbul, 8-9 May. Sign up now to secure a place: https://bit.ly/4uPcGfC

🎥AND WE'RE LIVE Join us online for the CSAE Conference 2026 sessions. #OxCSAE2026 11am - 1 pm Personnel Economics & Hiring 2 - 4pm Voting, Elections & Democracy 4 - 6pm Closing Panel 'The Science of Scale & Implementation: New Frontiers for Research' Watch here👇 us02web.zoom.us/j/81884170412

'Seeing poverty as a spectrum changes the conversation. It reveals what poverty lines miss and why inequality matters so much.' Associate Professor Olivier Sterck, from @odid-qeh.bsky.social, shares a new method of estimating the scope of poverty in different countries ⬇️

Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality

An economist proposes a new method of estimating the scope of poverty in different countries.

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Read @ox.ac.uk's latest feature on how Young Lives captured first-hand accounts of how #conflict affects young people’s lives — & our recommendations for governments, donors, NGOs & community groups⬇️ @younglivesethiopia.bsky.social @odid-qeh.bsky.social @socsci.ox.ac.uk @uk.theconversation.com

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NEW: 25-year Oxford study finds the impact of last for generations, affecting mental health, education, employment and more. Find out more ⬇️

🎧 MIGRATION OXFORD PODCAST: Migration and Aid: As local as possible, as international as necessary Drawing on COMPAS & ODID, University of Oxford projects, Danilo Angulo-Molina & Ruta Nimkar discuss what the future of humanitarian aid could look like: https://ow.ly/3lH950Ypyop