Development Studies is a dynamic, interdisciplinary field that investigates the complex processes shaping economic, political, social, and environmental transformation across diverse societies. It ...

James Georgalakis and Knowledge Manager, Alan Stanley share the shifts in theory and practice they have witnessed and consider the future of knowledge for development in the age of AI.

In 1985 a new college graduate named Michael Kremer traveled to Kenya hoping to learn more about a topic he had studied at Harvard: economic development in low-income countries. He didn’t anticipate ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst sleep scientist, funded with $6.7 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched two unprecedented studies that will track over time ...

Studies on monolingual language acquisition reveal that although the structural basis of language acquisition is very much in place by the time children start school, language acquisition and ...

Time spent watching television or playing computer games has measurable and long-term effects on children's brain function, according to a review of 23 years of neuroimaging research, which while ...

Research over recent decades has shown that multisensory integration does not emerge fully formed at birth but develops gradually from infancy through ...