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The Department of International Development (DID), formerly known as King's International Development Institution, is an inter-disciplinary development department located within the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy in the School of Global Affairs at King's College London.[1] DID was launched in 2013 with a focus on the phenomena faced by middle-income developing countries. DID is a young, innovative, and contemporary development studies department that is the first research centre in the UK that mixes development studies and emerging markets. Its research revolves around development theory, political economy, economics, business, management, geography, and social policy.[2]
Established | 2013 |
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Parent institution | King's College London |
Directors | Prof. Susan Fairley Murray |
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Website | www |
DID has students from 50 countries worldwide, who make half of all the student body. The department is a member of European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes and is a premium member of Development Studies Association (DSA).[3] [4] It has strong links with the Department for International Development, British Academy, Oxfam and UNDP, while its staff holds associate positions at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Center for Global Development and the Institute of Development Studies.[5] The Department of International Development at King's College London, despite being the most recently established department of international development among UK universities, has achieved impressive recognition. With a decade of existence, it is ranked among the top 10 global development learning programmes in the UK and among the top 30 universities worldwide for development studies according to the QS University Ranking in 2024.[6]
DID is a department focusing on middle income developing countries or ‘emerging economies’ with close connections to King's College London's Global Institutes who are also housed in the School of Global Affairs,[7] offering programmes at undergraduate and graduate level.
DID is distinctive for its interest in rising middle income developing countries (like the BRICs) as well as in social, political, and economic phenomena in conjunction with policy related questions of those fast-growing developing countries. The department’s mission is “to explore the sources of success in emerging economies as well as understand the major development challenges they continue to face”.
DID’s key areas of development are 'inclusive development' on the one hand and 'national development' on the other hand. Within these two broad areas, it works on three research groups:
Core research areas[9]
DID publishes a working paper series and has links to various external organisations including institutions like the UK Foreign Office and the UK Department for International Development, the British Academy, the European Association of Development Institutes, the UK Development Studies Association, the US Council on Foreign Relations, UNDP, the United Nations University, the WHO, the World Bank, and various international non-governmental and research organisations.
The Department of International Development currently offers the following programmes:[11]
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