Members of DEVRA have advised multilateral and international organisations and development agencies including:

They have carried out research projects funded by Economic and Social Research Council, DFID, World Bank, European Commission, regional development banks, and others.

Areas of expertise include: post-disaster reconstruction; urban management and local economic development; human rights, migration, refugees and asylum; urbanisation and globalisation; architecture, town planning and civil engineering (particularly water and sanitation); medicine (particularly paediatrics).

In-country experience includes work in:

Albania, Bosnia, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Zaire, Zimbabwe.