Research in international development covers the ideas and debates that comprise the over-arching term 'development'. The focus is on contemporary concerns with the processes, theories and practices of globalisation and environmental sustainability in the international context.
Supervision of research candidates is available in areas which relate to:
- centralisation of geopolitical power
- changing concepts of property in natural resource exploitation and management
- devolution of governance
- ethnic minorities
- foreign investment
- global production systems
- political participation and representation
- poverty.