Institute of Development Studies

The development research programmes at IDS are organised in six closely linked multidisciplinary teams.

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MA Development Studies

MA Poverty and Development

MA Gender and Development

MA Governance and Development

MA Globalisation and Development

MA Participation, Power and Social Change

MA Science, Society and Development

MSc Climate Change and Development

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IDS Research Associate Richard Longhurst and the Director of Teaching and Alumni Relations, Robert Nurick hosted an alumni dinner in Brighton.

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Action Research for Development and Social Change

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Participation, Power and Social Change Team
Linking research, learning and action to build just and sustainable societies

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Participation, Power and Social Change Team

The Participation, Power and Social Change (PPSC) team at IDS works in partnership with diverse collaborators from around the world to generate ideas and action for social change.

Citizens and their organisations, policymakers, development workers and researchers are increasingly appreciating that standard recipes for managing the complexity of our inter-connected world have not worked.

Through research, innovation and learning in rights-based and participatory approaches, we work with people to identify and implement alternative approaches to social change that respond to local situations and bridge operational practice with research and policy change.

Our work intends to help tackle the power inequalities that create crises and sustain poverty and injustices through the suppression of alternative or marginalised voices.

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Reflections from researching social impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises

Published: 20 Apr 2012 Hands holding grain. Credit: Sven Torfinn/Panos

Rasmus Heltberg at the World Bank reflects on what he learnt from undertaking research into the social impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises.

IDS at the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights in Development

Published: 19 Apr 2012

Find out how IDS and our partners are taking part at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Forum this week (19-22 April) in Istanbul, Turkey.

Making Development Work for Women For a Change!

Published: 8 Mar 2012 Woman watching television, Nicaragua
Photo: Panos / Tim Dirven

On International Women's Day, Pathways researchers call for a pleasure-based approach to development - one that reverses the instrumentalism of development approaches to pay more attention to enabling women to have happier, more enjoyable and pleasurable lives.