During the gLocal week, the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) organises a series of free, online one-hour webinars about various impact evaluation methods within a theory-based evaluation approach. These will be five daily, stand-alone sessions. Participants will be introduced to the strengths...
The Pakistan Hub, a partnership with the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, is co-hosting the Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture series. Watch the events live on the LUMS Facebook page. Mahbub ul Haq Distinguished Lecture series The series...
The Youth Employment and Politics webinar series is linked to IDS' strategic research initiative: ‘Ensuring decent work and political inclusion for young people’, which is part of the 2020-25 IDS Strategy.
The Sussex Development Lecture series is an opportunity to hear from leading global thinkers on development. It is jointly run by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the School of Global Studies , the Science Policy and Research Unit (SPRU) and the Centre for International Education...
Exploring books for a better world. This podcast series explores books with ideas for positive social and environmental change. Each month we feature a book and an interview with its author. The discussions give an insight on the themes covered in the book, exploring the challenges and...
China has become the major force for global development in recent years. China’s size and strategic importance means that its growth and growing influence, through global governance institutions and through initiatives such as the Belt and Road, will become increasingly critical for global...
The Evidence into Policy and Practice Series, convened by IDS, aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas and learning on the interactions between knowledge and policy and practice towards social change. An international, multi-disciplinary and cross-sector community of researchers, activists,...
The Religious Inequalities in Development seminar series challenges to understand why inequalities underpinned by individual (non)belief and/or religious affiliation to a community have been a blind spot for international development for so long, and, more importantly what can be done to better...
Each year we invite a prominent speaker on international development to give the IDS Annual Lecture. These events are open to the public and available to watch online afterwards. Past speakers include Vice President of the Gambia Isatou Touray, and world-renown economist Jayati Ghosh.
The IDS Conflict, Violence and Development seminar series focuses on mass violent conflicts as well as every day forms of insecurity, looking at their relationship with poverty and development. It provides a forum to discuss the Institute's work in this area, as well as some exciting work on...
Human beings and our societies are complex systems. Cities are complex systems. The development sector is a complex system. While we’ve made conceptual progress, and while being ‘complexity-aware’ in development interventions is gaining ground, what this really means in practice is still...
The Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development (CRPD) conducts and facilitates research on: the impact of the BRICS and other rapidly-changing and increasingly influential middle-income countries on low-income countries the need for the restructuring of global development...