Institute of Development Studies

Communications

Our team manages a dynamic publishing programme, producing over 40 titles a year and marketing them worldwide. It also produces policy briefings, press briefings and a range of other materials, targeted at a variety of audiences, making creative use of the internet and the media to increase the reach and impact of its work. It also coordinates an active programme of academic conferences and seminars as well as PR events such as book launches and public lectures.

Latest Team News >>

• ‘If disasters are changing, why aren’t we?’ asks new disaster guide

  A new step-by-step guide aims to promote joined-up thinking and action in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.

• Arab uprisings one year on – Egypt cannot afford to miss the signs of a revolution twice

  Latest IDS Bulletin analyses why and how the Arab uprisings began and what this means for human rights and public policy.

• Competition for African journalists: Young people, farming and food

  The Future Agricultures Consortium is running a competition to find the best media reporting in Africa on young people and agriculture

• IDS welcomes Parliamentary report on philanthropic solution to aid in tough times

  Following the publication of a parliamentary report on private foundations, IDS calls for new relationship between philanthropic and development sectors.

• 'A rich country with poor people' Myanmar can build a developmental welfare state

  As Myanmar pursues political reforms, the nation faces a choice between neoliberal policies and a developmental state that provides decent work and social protection for its citizens.

Latest Team Publications

• Jackson, C. Butters, S. Byambaa, E. Davies, M. and Perkins, N. (2012) 'Lessons from Social Protection Programme Implementation in Kenya, Zambia and Mongolia (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Research Report 69, Brighton: IDS
• Perkins, N. with Batchelor, S. (2012) 'Learning about How to Communicate ‘Learning’ from and Within a Multi-sited Organisation', IDS Practice Paper In Brief 7, Brighton: IDS
• Jackson, C., Butters, S. Byambaa, E. Davies, M. and Perkins, N. (2011) 'Lessons from Social Protection: Programme Implementation in Kenya, Zambia and Mongolia', IDS Research Report 69, Brighton: IDS
• (2011) 'Impact and Aid Effectiveness: Mapping the Issues and Their Consequences', IDS Virtual Bulletin 1, Brighton: IDS