The Sustainable Development Goal principles reflect a shared commitment by the international development community to ‘leave no one behind’. Evidence from research, however, reveals the extent to which development is undermined by a failure to recognise power in much work on gender,...
Women’s increasing entry into the labour market has not been matched by a change in the gendered division of unpaid care work. The UNDP Human Development Report 2015 estimates women do 3 out of every 4 hours of unpaid work.
IDS alumni event in Kenya to mark IDS' 50th anniversary year. The findings from the event will be discussed during a panel session at the IDS 50th Anniversary Conference, States, Markets and Society.
The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium, led by IDS Director Melissa Leach, together with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are organising a high-level symposium, One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing.
Professor Charlotte Watts, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Development to deliver a Sussex Development Lecture.
Part of the Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 at Sussex, this seminar has been organised by IDS students and aims to provide participants with an opportunity to think reflectively of our daily consumption and unpack the stories behind it, with a particular focus on the "fairness" of the trade system...
Two previous ethics events have been hosted by the Centre for Development Impact. These events looked at ethics and explored how the concept can become more relevant to the field of impact evaluation. One issue is that, while inclusion is recognised as a fundamental principle of best practice,...
Professor Danny Burns delivers a Sussex Development Lecture on topics examined in his new book Navigating Complexity in International Development.
This seminar marks the launch of the Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice Edited Collection. Comprising 33 articles, photo essays, interviews and thought pieces with academics, activists and legal practitioners from over twenty countries in the world, the speakers will reflect on the complexity...
An excellent opportunity for young researchers to showcase their research, relevant to the political debates that will occur around 2016 being the first year of the Global Goals, the BRICS Summit in India and the G20 Summit in China.
STEPS members Lyla Mehta, Jeremy Allouche and Amber Huff are involved in a workshop in February for our partners The Nexus Network, on the subject of ‘Resource Conflicts and Social Justice’. The workshop is led by Lyla Mehta and follows our symposium on Resource Politics last September.
Contested Agronomy 2016 is a conference about the battlefields in agricultural research, past and present.
