Events
Rural Futures Cluster Colloquium: Affordances and Opportunity Landscapes
25 Apr 2018This Rural Futures colloquium will create a space for a conversation about the relationship between agency and opportunity, and how this relationship may be explored through the relational, interactional concept of ‘affordance’.
More detailsHumanitarianism under stress – meeting the challenge, strengthening the architecture and reviving the rules
26 Apr 2018The international humanitarian system plays a critical role in development – but the system is operating under unprecedented stress. Armed conflict, climate risk, and insecurity have contributed to record levels of displacement.
More detailsDisaster Development: Fighting for Visibility in Sierra Leone’s Borderlands
30 Apr 2018Based on extensive ethnographic research in Northern Sierra Leone, this seminar considers the implications of the securitisation of Ebola for populations affected by the epidemic.
More detailsSTEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability 2018
14 May 2018 until 25 May 2018Applications are invited from highly-motivated doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working in fields around development studies, science and technology studies, innovation and policy studies, and across agricultural, health, water or energy issues.
More detailsEconomics as if we wanted to survive the 21st century
14 May 2018The economist Kate Raworth, author of the bestselling book Doughnut Economics, will give the 2018 STEPS Annual Lecture at the University of Sussex. This is the only public event of the STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability.
More detailsParticipatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Learning
04 Jun 2018 until 08 Jun 2018Professional short course that equips development planners and practitioners with the knowledge and skills to more effectively design and improve M&E systems and move towards a participatory learning practice within projects, programmes and their organisations.
More detailsInnovation for Universal Health Coverage in Asia and Africa
11 Jun 2018 until 12 Jun 2018The Innovation for UHC Conclave at the GE Healthcare, Bangalore, India will bring together those who have been involved in the design and implementation of health care innovations, which have the potential to be taken to scale and transferred between regions and countries.
More detailsParticipatory Video Processes: building inclusive engagement and community-led change
18 Jun 2018 until 22 Jun 2018Learn how to use participatory video to drive and mediate participatory and community-led change, in an ethical and contextualized way.
More detailsSocial Protection: policies, programmes and evidence
25 Jun 2018 until 28 Jun 2018This course enables participants to expand their knowledge base of approaches to social protection, develop an understanding of the challenges in designing and implementing social protection programmes, and critically assess current evidence of what works in social protection.
More detailsTransforming Nutrition: Ideas, Policies and Outcomes
16 Jul 2018 until 20 Jul 2018This professional development course equips development policymakers and practitioners with the knowledge and skills to more effectively design, improve and implement strategic approaches to address nutrition issues at regional, national and global levels.
More details‘We are like slaves’: strict encampment policies and refugee economies in North-Western Tanzania
23 Apr 2018As part of the Conversations about Conflict and Violence seminar series, this presentation will review the (early) findings of new fieldwork conducted in Nyarugusu, Mtendeli, and Nduta refugee camps in February 2018.
More detailsThe Humanitarian Border: Aid and Development as tools to prevent migration
19 Apr 2018In recent years crisis thinking associated with international migration has motivated a political re-evaluation of well supported elements of the relationship between migration and development.
More detailsRethinking State and Society in China - Gordon White Lecture
18 Apr 2018 Watch/Listen AgainProfessor Biao Xiang will deliver this lecture examining what Gordon White taught us in relation to examining social changes by the relation between the state and the society as two separate entities, particularly in China.
More detailsSimplexity2 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Complexity in Development
17 Apr 2018This seminar is the fifth in a series that aims to share cutting edge thinking and research being done at IDS and the University of Sussex around how we practically capture and account for complexity across a variety of sustainable development contexts.
More detailsBridging the Humanitarian-Development Divide
12 Apr 2018How can humanitarian aid workers and development actors work better together to achieve the SDGs?
More detailsMembers Seminar: Building a Just Future: Leadership and Transformational Change.
10 Apr 2018 More detailsImpact of Community-Based Health Insurance on Child Health Outcomes: Evidence on Stunting from Rural Uganda
28 Mar 2018 More detailsA post-imperial lens on displacement and development in the Middle East
22 Mar 2018Imperial encounters with multiculturalism and ethnic diversity characterized the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires as well as the colonies that were ruled by European empires
More detailsHow can we improve the life choices for women in rural Africa? Side event at the 62nd Commission for the Status of Women
20 Mar 2018Chaired by Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director, Social Development Policy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, this side event at the 62nd Commission for the Status of Women, will how host a panel of researchers and NGOs to propose policies ideas for improving life choices for women in rural Africa.
More detailsSecuring the Cordon: Destruction and Reconstruction in the Gaza Strip
19 Mar 2018In this presentation, Francesco Sebregondi argues that the recurrent wars in the Gaza Strip can no longer be understood as an abrupt interruption of an otherwise normal state of peace; rather, they describe a peak of intensity in an economy of violence that takes various forms: structural and explosive, fast and slow.
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