Large Grant-Funded Research Centres and Concept Generation in Development Research.
Research centres are increasingly an integral part of the institutional and organisational infrastructure of knowledge production in development studies. However, whilst other components of the knowledge production have been problematised for their role in reproducing the hierarchies of the 'global-...
| Published in: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 61; no. 7; pp. 1024 - 1042 |
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Jul2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=186418731&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 186418731 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00220388 JDS jtl: Journal of Development Studies issn: 00220388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2025 vid: 61 iid: 7 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 186418731 10.1080/00220388.2024.2420022 ppf: 1024 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T db: hlh ui: 186418731 – @attributes: type: P db: hlh ui: 186418731 tig: atl: Large Grant-Funded Research Centres and Concept Generation in Development Research. aug: au: Roelofs, Portia affil: King's College London, London, UK su: International economic assistance Grants (Money) Information economy Political knowledge Research grants sug: subj: International economic assistance Grants (Money) Information economy International assistance International Affairs Administration of General Economic Programs Other Grantmaking and Giving Services Political knowledge Research grants keyword: development research development studies large grant-funded research centres overseas development aid political economy of knowledge production political marketplace development research development studies large grant-funded research centres overseas development aid political economy of knowledge production political marketplace ab: Research centres are increasingly an integral part of the institutional and organisational infrastructure of knowledge production in development studies. However, whilst other components of the knowledge production have been problematised for their role in reproducing the hierarchies of the 'global-north-dominated science and research ecosystem' (Gebremariam, 2022), centres have received little direct attention. This paper identifies a new generation of large grant-funded research centres (LGRCs) as on object of study in themselves. These are large in terms of both ambitions and budgets, yet are distinguished from more permanent departments or institutes in their reliance on fixed-term grant funding. It unpicks how LGRC's internal organisational dynamics and their location within the British and global political economies of development research encourage the dissemination of concepts coined by their Principal Investigators (PIs), through centre-branded grey literature. Whilst research grants commonly release scholars from contractual teaching and administration obligations, two case studies of LGRCs at a UK university show how this process of 'buy-out' can be conceived more broadly as a buy-out from peer-review, with consequences for maintaining what Hountoundji (1990, p. 6) calls 'the North's monopoly on theory'. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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