Kei Otsuki appointed professor of International Development Studies

From 1 November 2023, Kei Otsuki will be appointed professor of International Development Studies at the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at the faculty of Geosciences. International Development Studies is the field where we ask: how do we promote sustainable and equitable development across the globe? Kei Otsuki - Research expertise. What is 'sustainable development'- What does it mean to develop a place, people, or environments sustainably? Who benefits from this development, who loses? Why? Otsuki's research expertise is International Development Studies, and she is interested in researching what 'development' under the sustainability agenda does to different places, people and environments globally. Impact. "This is because 'sustainable development' is often planned by experts and decision makers far away from where people and places to be developed are. As a part of the discipline of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, I investigate the social and material impacts of the expert-driven blueprint development on everyday lives of people in various geographies. I am also very keen to understand how people take creative action to shape their own sustainable development." - Collaboration.