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The Oxford Department of International Development (ODID), or Queen Elizabeth House (QEH), is a department of the University of Oxford in England, and a unit of the University’s Social Sciences Division. It is the focal point at Oxford for multidisciplinary research and postgraduate teaching on the developing world. [1]
Until the 19th century all bishops who had studied at Oxford were made DDs jure officio. Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) The DPhil is a research degree, modelled on the German and American PhD, that was introduced in 1914. Oxford was the first university in the UK to accept this innovation. Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsychol)
When the Overseas Service Course was discontinued in 1969, the Foreign Service element of that course was transformed into the Foreign Service Programme, based out of Queen Elizabeth House. [9] In the decades that followed, the programme expanded its audience to governments in the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.
St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politics, and area studies relative to Europe, Russia, former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, and South and South East Asia.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities, as of November 2021, ranks Oxford as ninth in a worldwide listing of universities for the study of political sciences; the only higher-ranked UK institution was the London School of Economics.
The University of Oxford is the setting for numerous works of fiction. Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer, in Canterbury Tales, referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford". [313] Mortimer Proctor argues the first campus novel was The Adventures of Oxymel Classic, Esq; Once an Oxford Scholar (1768). [314]
Centre for the Study of African Economies; Chemical Biology Laboratory; Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford; Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford; Churchill Hospital; Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford; Clinical Trial Service Unit; Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford; Oxford University Computing ...
The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was established in 1982, as part of the University of Oxford's Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), [1] in order to promote the understanding of the causes and consequences of forced migration and to improve the lives of some of the world's most marginalised people.