Lewis Small is an Editorial Coordinator in the Knowledge, Impact and Policy Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).

He has worked in publishing for eight years, with the last four in academic publishing at IDS. He is responsible for the editorial production of all non-series (project) publications, and supports the production of IDS series publications, including its gold open access journal the IDS Bulletin.

Since joining IDS Lewis has worked on a wide range of programmes and projects, including: Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D); the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP); Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research; the Covid Collective Research Platform; Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) Knowledge Translation Support; Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA); Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA); the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID); New Community-Informed Approaches to Humanitarian Protection and Restraint: Women’s Agency in The Democratic Republic of the Congo; Knowledge Translation in the Global South; the African Digital Rights Network (ADRN), and Irish Aid.

He holds a BA in English and Media, Communications and Culture from the University of Keele, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Sussex.