Staff supervise full and part-time PhDs and there is a lively research student body within the group, which runs its own seminars, has social events and engages with the day to day activities of DPP.

Examples of topics include:

  • The role of co-operatives for young people in Lesotho and Uganda

  • The nature and determinants of value chain linkages of the mining industry of Sub-Saharan Africa.

  • The Changing Governance of Science? A critical inquiry into the contemporary politics and governance of research as explored through the human tissue and embryo cases in the UK

  • Management of Pro-Poor agricultural innovation networks: Empirical cases from South Asia



My three years at the Open University, and at the DPP, were filled with such fond memories. The experience itself was life-changing and it had certainly helped me prepare for life after the PhD

Julia Tijaja