Gender and Development: Debates for a Changing World

Booking enquiries to [email protected] 

Content enquiries to the Gender and Development Conference 2025 team [email protected] 

This conference is organised by the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia 

All catering, a printed conference booklet of abstracts and a special evening reception is included in the conference booking fee of £180.  

The conference organisers would like to thank the Development Studies Association Gender and Development Study Group for their generous sponsoring of the evening reception on Thursday 19 June.  

Delegates to book own travel and accommodation. We warmly invite you to stay on campus  

https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/information-for-visitors/visitor-accommodation 

Context for the conference: 
Despite progress since the 4th International Women’s Conference in Beijing 1995, critical challenges persist to the achievement of gender and wider social justice. These include, amongst others, persistent gender-differentiated inequalities in political participation, health, education, sexuality, violence, employment and livelihoods, especially in the context of a changing climate. The aims of this conference are twofold: to reflect on the current state of the art in Gender and Development debates, and to foster feminist solidarities and collective action within a changing global context.  This 2025 conference on “Debates for a Changing World” is the third in a series of DEV conferences to recognise feminist landmark events: DEV previously organised a conference in 1994, in the run-up to Beijing 1995, to explore feminist visions of gender and development, and another conference in 2015 to take stock of gender relations in the context of rising inequalities.