In this podcast, drawn from a recent lecture at IDS, research fellow Marina Apgar is in conversation with Tom Wein from the IDinsight Dignity Initiative who examines dignity as a core value around the world.
In recognition of outstanding research, the Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research (CSWIR) recently presented awards to Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) across the University of Sussex. Diana Ramirez Sarmiento and Sunisha Neupane, both PhD researchers...
2 July 2025
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government presented the Federal Budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year which allocated nearly 50% of the budget to debt servicing alone while severing subsidies - with a 13% cut on power sector subsidies - and announcing plans to broaden the...
2 July 2025
IDS researchers are out in force this year presenting at this years Development Studies Association (DSA) conference – the biggest of its kind in Europe – and which takes place at the University of Bath from the 25 to 27 June. The theme of the conference this year is Navigating crisis:...
23 June 2025
As global challenges in clean energy adoption intensify, a compelling conversation unfolded during a virtual panel event, “Powering Change: Women, Youth, and the Clean Energy Revolution,” bringing to the forefront the urgent need to prioritise gender and youth inclusion in the clean energy...
17 June 2025
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has been awarded four pioneering research projects funded through the British Academy. The funding is part of a programme that aims to enhance the use of evidence in policymaking for addressing critical global development...
6 June 2025
In a landmark gathering aimed at redefining the future of global health, over 50 experts, practitioners, and advocates convened at the Salzburg Global Seminar in October 2024. The session, titled "Centring on Equity: Transforming the Health Science Knowledge System," culminated in the release of...
3 June 2025
Every time a community organises, learns, and cares for its members, it is exercising power. That power doesn’t always make the headlines, but it is still there. We see it when someone speaks out, when one person defends another against discrimination, or when a group gathers to imagine something different.
The UK government’s 2025 Immigration White Paper titled ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’ proposes sweeping changes to the Skilled Worker (SW) visa route, raising salary thresholds (currently £38,700), removing discounts for shortage occupations, closing the social care visa...
3 July 2025
Where do skills reside? Do they dwell in people, in practices, in technologies? The question might seem abstract, but it helps us to think shrewdly about how changing skills can respond to new challenges and opportunities. Skills are fundamentally about agency; they express what a...
2 July 2025
This blog offers a compilation of blogs published over the past weeks, which have offered a reflection on how local people understand ‘success’ and its changes over time especially in the period since the 2000 land reform. We have worked in a diversity of A1 smallholder land reform and...
1 July 2025
One of President Lula’s early acts as President of Brazil for the third time was to reinstate the national food and nutrition security council, after the previous President Jair Bolsonaro had dismantled it in 2019. Earlier this month, I was at the inaugural meeting for this council,...
25 June 2025
Read the English version of this opinion. Cada vez que una comunidad se organiza, aprende y cuida de los suyos, está ejerciendo poder. Ese poder no siempre aparece en los titulares, pero allí está. Lo vemos cuando una persona alza la voz, cuando alguien defiende a otra frente a la...
24 June 2025
Six months after the USAID cuts tilted the aid world on its axis, donors and agencies are still finding their feet. Humanitarians are emerging from last week’s Geneva meetings – with talk of ‘cruel math’ of hyper-prioritisation and of resetting the system. Meanwhile, development folk are...
24 June 2025