The Oxford Department of International Development (ODID), or Queen Elizabeth House (QEH), is a department of the
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in England, and a unit of the University’s
Social Sciences Division. It is the focal point at Oxford for multidisciplinary research and postgraduate teaching on the developing world.
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The current Head of Department is Professor Diego Sanchez-Ancochea. Former Heads of Department include Dr Nandini Gooptu, Dr Christopher Adam, Professor Valpy FitzGerald, Professor Barbara Harriss-White, Rosemary Thorp and Professor Frances Stewart.
History
QEH was founded as a result of a gift of £100,000 given by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (22 May 1880 – 25 November 1957), KStJ was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.
Career
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to the University of Oxford. The donation was for the development of colonial studies and the establishment of an associated colonial centre. A further gift of £50,000 was given by the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund
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QEH was constituted by Royal Charter in 1954 to provide a residential centre which people concerned with the study of Commonwealth
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affairs could visit to make contacts and exchange ideas.
In the 1980s there was a drive to reshape QEH as a centre for international studies, rather than purely for study concerning the Commonwealth. In 1986 it was merged with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies was a graduate research centre of the University of Oxford which was in existence between 1945 and 1986.
History
The last year of Sir Reader Bullard as Director, 1956, saw the alteration of the Institute’ ...
and the Oxford University Institute of Agricultural Economics to create the International Development Centre, a department of the University within the Social Studies Faculty.
From 1958 to 2005 QEH was located at 20-21 St Giles. In 2005, the department moved to the former School of Geography building in Mansfield Road and became known as the Oxford Department of International Development.
Teaching
The Department provides postgraduate research training (DPhil and MPhil) and four MSc taught courses to some 200 students. These programmes involve advanced research methods, personal supervision, subject specialisation and fieldwork. International demand for these programmes is high and entrance standards are exacting. The Department forms part of the ESRC-funded for the Social Sciences at the University of Oxford.
ODID currently offers the following degree courses:
*DPhil in International Development
*DPhil in Migration Studies
*MPhil in Development Studies
*MSc in Economics for Development
*MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy
*MSc in Migration Studies
*MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Research
The Department hosts some 80 active researchers working on four broad themes: Economic Development and International Institutions; Migration and Refugees in a Global Context; Human Development, Poverty and Children; and Political Change, Conflict and the Environment.ODID, Research Themes
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Research at ODID is conducted by individual scholars as well as by five externally funded research groups:
*International Growth Centre (IGC)
* Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
*Refugee Studies Centre
The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was established in 1982, as part of the University of Oxford's Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), in order to promote the understanding of the causes and consequences of forced migrati ...
(RSC)
*Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) Which houses th
Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development (SLPTMD)
*Young Lives
Notable people
* Frances Stewart (economist)
Frances Julia Stewart (born 4 August 1940) is professor emeritus of development economics and director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), University of Oxford. A pre-eminent development economist, sh ...
* Barbara Harriss-White
* Sabina Alkire
Sabina Alkire is the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), an economic research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, England, which was established in ...
* Xiaolan Fu
Professor Xiaolan Fu (傅晓岚) is a British-based Chinese economist, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD). She is a Professor of Technology ...
* Alexander Betts (academic)
Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, and Associate Head (Graduate and Research Training) of the Social Sciences Division at the University of ...
References
External links
QEH website
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Educational institutions established in 1954
Departments of the University of Oxford
Development studies
1954 establishments in England