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The School of Government, Development and International Affairs (SGDIA) is one of the schools of the Faculty of Business and Economics at USP. It promotes research and learning in the fields of Development Studies and Governance, particularly as these relate to the on going transformation and pressing needs of Pacific Island countries. The Development Studies Programme is located at the Faculty of Business and Economics Building and the Governance Programme is currently located near the Molikilagi Bure, opposite the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture and Pacific Studies.
In late 2008, SGDIA succeeded the Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance (PIAS DG) which had been established in 2003 in the Faculty of Arts and Law (FAL). In the near future, a postgraduate programme in Diplomacy is to be initiated by SGDS.
The School may also be responsible for developing a new complusory subject focusing on Governance for all second-year undergraduate students of the USP.
About the Development Studies Programme.
Development Studies is a trans-discipline postgraduate programme that examines how societies and people interact with accelerating global changes and enables studies to engage in development projects and policy development.
- Development Studies began at USP in 1991. In 1997 it became a University Centre, and in 2003 joined the PIAS-DG.
- Development Studies is globally recognised, many of our students receive scholarships from the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF), the European Union, Australia and New Zealand, as well as from the governments of member countries and SSLFF fellows also have opportunities to study in other SYLFF-funded institutions.
About the Governance Programme
The postgraduate Governance Programme began in 2003 with the establishment of PIAS-DG.
- Governance training is primarily concerned with developing understanding of the institutions (both formal and informal) of society, including the principles and norms that underpin them and the incentives that such institutions create and how they affect people's behaviour. Governance is also concerned with the establishment and enforcement of these 'rules' of society. Leadership is a strong component of this study.
- Governance is the quintessential inter-disciplinary field of academic study.
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