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 >>

• Governments, businesses and communities need to work together to save the planet

  Brighton public put questions on sustainable development to panel including Caroline Lucas MP at IDS and STEPS Centre Fringe Festival event

• Africa's first Human Development Report on food security fails to "put the last first"

  With world leaders discussing food security at the G8 summit this week, Lawrence Haddad's reflects on Africa's Human Development Report, "Towards a Food Secure Future".

• A new development paradigm? China and Brazil in African agriculture

  A new body of IDS research explores the impact of the rising powers on African agriculture.

• New Flagship Programmes

  IDS has launched six multi-year programmes to deliver new policy solutions to key development challenges to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable people.

• Deprivation, distribution and the political economy of poverty: Is poverty research about the non-poor as much as the poor?

  A new paper reveals that we need to ask different questions about poverty, and focus on distribution not just deprivation.

Latest Team Publications >>

• Corbett, H. (2012) 'Using Human security Principles to Develop a Post-2015 Framework', IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 24, Brighton: IDS
• Jolly, R. (2012) Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking, London: Palgrave Macmillan
• 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