The Cutting-Edge Issues in Development Thinking and Practice 2026/27 was launched with a lecture from Professor Sharifah Sekalala on "The Role of Law in African Health Data Futures."

6:30pm Tues 20 Oct | Symeon Brown, Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

LSE Africa Dissertation Prize 2026 co-winner Patrick McVeigh reflects on how a fascination with carbon markets, land rights and REDD+ in East Africa shaped both his award-winning dissertation and his ...

From the Norwegian throne to the leadership of Scottish Labour, two alumni of LSE's Department of International Development have recently assumed some of the most prominent leadership positions in con...

After an unconventional journey from dentistry to global health advocacy, MSc Health and International Development alum Abhijit Dhillon reflects on how studying development changed the questions she asks about power, policy and health systems.

Suspicion of corruption in crisis is central to debates about who counts as an authentic humanitarian. This article examines suspicions of corruption in global humanitarianism in the eastern Democr...

Elliott Green, Professor of Development Studies and co-Deputy Head of Department for Research in LSE's Department of International Development, recently delivered a lecture on Socialism and National I...

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Now a PhD student in Political Science at UCL, Yiwen Sun explains how the MSc Development Studies helped him develop the analytical tools, interdisciplinary perspective, and research interests that un...

The country is caught between two continents, both geographically and demographically

Using Gen-Z lingo, music and memes, the youth protests sweeping India are questioning what it means to practice citizenship in the world's largest democracy

Ratko Mladić has died in UN custody while serving a life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Reflecting on his own experience in besieged Sarajevo, Professor Stuart Gordon considers the importance of accountability and the unanswered questions surrounding the international community’s failure to prevent the Srebrenica genocide. Ratko Mladić died on Thursday

Using Gen-Z lingo, music and memes, the youth protests sweeping India are questioning what it means to practice citizenship in the world's largest democracy

After choosing LSE's IDHE master's over a diplomatic posting abroad, Moses Mpungu returned to Uganda's foreign service and quickly rose to First Secretary.

As dissertation season reaches its final stretch, MSc Development Studies student Eilidh Taylor reflects on seven lessons she's learned about research, writing, managing uncertainty and making the mos...

Careers rarely follow a straight line. After joining LSE's MSc Development Management with the goal of changing careers, Rory Dillon took what seemed like a temporary part-time role with an NGO workin...

Questions of sovereignty, financial control and disaster recovery have become increasingly intertwined in Venezuela's response to crisis. Nadira Saraswati, MSc International Development and Humanitari...

Not enough people are talking about the new Prime Minister's decision to deprioritise the world's poorest and most vulnerable. Esperanza Hughes-Salinas examines Andy Burnham's revised climate finance ...

LSE International Development alum Jude Chisom Erondu has built a career spanning sustainable investing, credit analysis, institutional asset management and artificial intelligence.

Drawing on themes from her new book, Layered Continuity in Pakistan's Northwest Borderlands: State, Power, and Political Economy (Routledge, 2026), Alia Qaim Bukhari argues that development interventi...

Dr Myfanwy James has been featured in The New York Times exploring the historical and political roots of public mistrust during health crises.

Following the horrifying death of Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman, Professor Stuart Gordon reflects on his encounters with the formidable politician. He…

Laura Rabago, reflects on an event hosted by the LSE Ethical Development Initiative, where Jasmin Jahanshahi of the Aga Khan Foundation shared insights into the ethical considerations and practical re...

Following the horrifying death of Ann Widdecombe, Professor Stuart Gordon reflects on his encounters with the formidable politician, exploring what her faith and conservative friction with organizatio...

As warfare moves deeper into the digital domain, the protections that have safeguarded hospitals, aid workers and humanitarian infrastructure for over 160 years risk becoming invisible. Professor Stua...

Manoj Yadav and Richa Arora argue that migration and development financing must move beyond reliance on shrinking aid budgets by using carefully designed blended finance models that mobilise private i...

With Europe in the grip of an unusually intense heatwave, what can be learned from regions more used to extreme heat?

Since the 1980s, the United States has unilaterally pressured many developing countries to open their markets to American exports. Despite such pressure coinciding with trade liberalization around ...

In a study, guest bloggers Rashid Javed, Sumeet Ashok and Mazhar Mughalask ask whether delaying a mother's marriage narrow the gender gap in children education.

Professor Stuart Gordon argues that Lake Malawi, through David Livingstone’s anti-slavery, missionary and commercial interventions, should be seen as a key birthplace of “colonial humanitarianism,” sh...

Professor Jean-Paul Faguet delivered a keynote address to a high-level group of Bolivian policymakers and technical experts as part of national discussions on the government’s proposed “Agenda 50/50”.

When funding shrinks, the sector's instinct is competition. What becomes possible when grassroots organisations decide to stand in the gap together instead?

Donors say they are directing aid “where it’s most needed,” but this shift toward fragile and conflict‑affected states risks weakening the institutions that prevent future crises. As Tariq Ambrose arg...

In this reflection, MSc Candidate Praveena Makeshtraces the quiet tensions between privilege, inherited trauma, and belonging during a visit to Dr B. R. Ambedkar's London home. Moving through the room...

Britain's aid cuts are framed as fiscal responsibility, yet the government spends more managing the consequences of instability than it spent preventing it. MSc Candidate Jack Salmon argues that the c...

For Professor Stuart Gordon, the question is not whether humanitarian aid will continue to exist, but what kind of humanitarianism will endure under mounting pressure. As the legal protections, financ...

Hunger is increasingly a warning signal of political instability rather than a distant humanitarian tragedy. Speaking to LBC News on World Hunger Day, Professor Stuart Gordon examined how food insecur...

The humanitarian class: Transformation and tension in eastern Congo

Dr Myfanwy James has been interviewed and quoted in a recent edition of The Continent, an African newspaper, on the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Dr Myfanwy James has been interviewed and quoted in a recent edition of The Continent, an African newspaper, on the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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