2 courses offered in the Centre of Development Studies
Development Studies - MPhil - Closed
The MPhil in Development Studies is a highly inter-disciplinary course which gives its students a firm grounding in political economics relevant to the developing world, including the study of sociology, law, political science, management, economics and anthropology. The inter-disciplinary approach is based on the recognition that together with the analytical rigour required of economists and other social scientists today, no important issue in development — poverty and inequality, population growth, the construction of the institutions of a market economy, war and human rights, democratisation — can be properly understood without an inter-disciplinary perspective.
The MPhil course consists of five core papers and a range of option papers. The core papers are the responsibility of the Centre of Development Studies' permanent academic staff; most option papers are offered by affiliated lecturers, postdoctoral researchers and visiting fellows. Some option papers are full papers and some are half papers. Students take four full papers (or their equivalent in half papers) concurrently. At least two papers must be core papers, and one (full) option paper may be replaced by a 12,000-word dissertation.
Development Studies - PhD - Closed
The full-time PhD course lasts for a minimum of nine terms (three years), and up to a maximum of twelve terms (four years). Most of our PhD students spend their second year away from Cambridge, conducting their fieldwork for which some limited financial assistance is available.
Development Studies has five academic staff members: Professor Peter Nolan, Dr Shailaja Fennell, Dr Maha Abdelrahman, Dr Ha-Joon Chang and Dr Graham Denyer Willis. Affiliated lecturers currently include Dr Flavio Comim, Mr Michael Kuczynski, Dr David Clark, Dr Gay Meeks and Dr Alexandra Winkels.