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2nd Annual DSAI Postgraduate Workshop

Following on from the extremely successful DSAI Postgraduate Workshop held in the University of Limerick last year, we are pleased to announce that the 2nd Annual DSAI Postgraduate Workshop will be held in University College Cork on 7-8th June 2012 in conjunction with the UCC Centre for Global Development.

For Further information please follow this link Read more

If you are interested in attending this workshop, please email Dug Cubie at: cgducc@gmail.com by 16th March 2012
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Collaborative review of the White Paper on Irish Aid is now open and active
The DSAI invites interested individuals and organizations to participate in a new networked consultation review of the Irish Aid White Paper.
This process is taking place now on DSAI Net which has an open membership policy.
If you would like to take part in this consultation process Read more
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Members to the DSAI Steering Committee selected at the DSAI Conference September 2011
To view members click here
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Presentations from the Development Studies Association Ireland - Annual Conference and AGM, NUI Maynooth 8th Sept. 2011
Presentations from the DSAI conference are now available for download from speakers by
Andy Storey, Sarah Hunt, Peadar Kirby, Nick Chisholm and Mike Fitzgibbon.
Click here

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Second Annual Conference & AGM of the Development Studies Association Ireland (DSAI) at NUI Maynooth,
Thursday September 8th, 2011
“From Research to Practice”
A number of speakers from academia, Irish Aid, and non-governmental organisations met to discuss and debate the issue of linking development research, policy and practice. The keynote address was delivered by Professor Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and the current President of the Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland. He spoke about the need for academics to find a balance between having their research priorities entirely dictated by the policy establishment on the one hand, and remaining disengaged and “taking pot shots” at that establishment on the other hand. Read more

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