Nearly one in three women and one in five men are experiencing domestic violence in Ghana and young people are most at risk, says new research published today.
17 August 2016
Transparify awards Institute highest possible rating for transparency around sources of funding.
28 June 2016
The Ebola Response Anthropology Platform and the related Ebola: lessons for development initiatives led by Professor Melissa Leach at the Institute of Development Studies have won the prestigious Economic and Social Research Council Outstanding International Impact Prize for their rapid and...
22 June 2016
On 5-6 July some of the world’s leading experts will join together at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to take part in an international conference on ‘States, markets and society in a reconfigured world: Defining a new era for development’.
15 June 2016
The Institute for Development Studies is part of a consortium that has won a £2.017 million grant for much needed research on inclusive finance and the contribution it can make to sustainable and inclusive growth in Africa. The project is funded under the DFID-ESRC Growth Research programme...
25 May 2016
Bugs will be on the menu at this year’s Brighton Fringe Festival as experts debate the future of food.
17 May 2016
Ahead of George Osborne’s speech to the IMF in Washington, where he will call for immediate and global action to address the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics, the Institute of Development Studies appeals for these efforts to be underpinned with a commitment to universal access to...
15 April 2016
Policy makers and HIV agencies urgently need to ensure that PrEP complements existing prevention programmes and does not undermine condom use to protect the health of sex workers.
4 February 2016
The IDS Bulletin has just been re-launched as an open access journal, making it more widely available to non-academic audiences and accessible to researchers globally, including from countries such as India who cannot access journals through initiatives such as the Research4Life, which provides...
3 February 2016
Citizens’ voices need to be heard on climate and cities, say researchers at launch of South Asia Sustainability Hub
28 January 2016
While the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) welcomes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recent announcement that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has at last come to an end, the new case identified in Sierra Leone highlights the need to remain vigilant against future re-emergence and...
18 January 2016
