Mobility Governance Lab to launch
ODID and the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have signed an innovative partnership agreement to launch a jointly directed ‘lab’ that will explore the governance of mobility in the global South. Find out more.

Social enterprise to value new tech
A social enterprise created from ODID research has developed an affordable tool that can be used by international organisations, governments, banks, and private investors to determine the value of new technologies with great accuracy. Find out more. 

Linking poverty and electricity access
A new report by OPHI and The Rockefeller Foundation explores the interlinkages between access to electricity and multiple indicators of poverty, making the case for universal electrification as a path for more rapid and inclusive economic development. Read the report.

Raufu Mustapha's papers online
Oxford's Bodleian library has catalogued and made available online a collection of the academic papers of our late colleague, Abdul Raufu Mustapha. Raufu's interests included religion and politics in Nigeria, the politics of rural societies, the politics of democratisation, and identity politics in Africa. Find out more.

First book award
Simukai Chigudu has won the 2021 Theodore J Lowi First Book Award for his book, The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe. It is awarded by the International and American Political Science Associations. Find out more. 

Student startup wins innovation award 
A startup co-founded by our student Merlin Stein, Seedloans, has won the $22,000 first prize in the Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge. Seedloans provides female smallholder farmers in rural Uganda with seeds as collateral-free loans in kind. Find out more.

The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law is a comprehensive, critical work, which analyses the state of research across the refugee law regime as a whole. Drawing together leading and emerging scholars, it provides both doctrinal and theoretical analyses of international refugee law and practice. 

Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam (eds) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford University Press