International Development
The work of the International Development (ID) Group is characterised by a broad and interdisciplinary approach to development. Our interests span conceptual and theoretical reflections on the meaning of development as well as the challenges and opportunities of 'doing' development and policy and practice. Our research areas include: the political economy of development; citizenship, democracy and human rights; geopolitics and the contested construction of national states; population geographies; labour migration; refugees; managing environmental change; natural resource management; aid policy; inequality, family and childhood; culture and postcolonial theory; and geographies of conflict and security.
We work closely with colleagues in the Social & Cultural Geographies and in the Policy, Governance and Participation research groups, as well as the Earth-Surface Dynamics team. The ID team are active in the Sheffield International Development Network (Professor Jean Grugel is Co-Director) which brings together academic staff and postgraduates from across the University.
Members of the ID cluster are involved in research collaborations in Sweden, Spain, South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Argentina, Chile and Brazil. We are committed to contributing to public debates about development and have acted as policy advisors to international organisations including UNICEF and the European Commission. We are currently working with the Geographical Association on a project looking at the way that development is taught in the geography curriculum in schools in the UK.
ID has a vibrant postgraduate community at both Masters and Doctoral levels.
Individual staff interests can be seen at:
Jean Grugel (Group leader)
Margo Huxley