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Celebrating the impact of research at Bath’s Centre for Development Studies

By | 12 February 2026 |

As we reached our 10th anniversary milestone, CDS (the birthplace of QuIP) celebrated its 50th anniversary and has been reflecting on the impact of its incredibly diverse research portfolio. The university has recently published a beautiful long-form article as part of their Research with Impact series, featuring a section on the development of QuIP and the founding of Bath SDR.

We are proud to be part of the wide-ranging achievements and continuing research that comes out of the Centre for Development studies. Some extracts are posted below, do click on them to enjoy the full article which includes reflection on the future of Development Studies, and features on Bath SDR directors Prof James Copestake and Prof Melanie Channon.

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The Assessing Rural Transformations research was sponsored by the UK Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council - grant number ES/J018090/1.

The follow-up work on disseminating the QuIP was sponsored by the UK Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council - grant number ES/NO15649/1.

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