DSA 2026 Conference: Reimagining Development Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World

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About JLI

An international collaboration on evidence for faith actors’ activities, contributions, and challenges to achieving humanitarian and development goals. Founded in 2012, JLI came together with a single shared conviction: there is an urgent need to build our collective understanding, through evidence, of faith actors in humanitarianism and development.

JLI is pleased to share that independent researcher and practitioner, Dr. Jennifer Philippa Eggert and University of Leeds Professor Emma Tomalin will host an online panel at the 2026 Development Studies Association (DSA) for this year’s program, Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World.

Professor Emma Tomalin

Dr. Jennifer Philippa Eggert

The conference will take place 8-10 July 2026, Hybrid, at University College Dublin.

Their panel will center on, “Key moments shaping religions and development research, policy and practice: Critical junctures of a discipline,” and will reflect on moments in the last 25+ years that can be classified as critical junctures, or key turning points leading to significant change, in the field of religions and development.

The deadline to submit a contribution is December 30, 2025. 

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The Development Studies Association is a UK-based membership organisation for all those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development. Learn more here >