The UK’s democracy and human rights work has delivered useful results, often in difficult political contexts, but has been significantly affected by budget reductions and the lack of a strategic framework, a new review by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) has found. The aid...
18 January 2023
IDS is recruiting up to three Fellows to join our research clusters. This includes two vacancies to join the Rural Futures cluster as Social Protection Fellow and a vacancy to join the Digital and Technology cluster as Cluster Leader. Social Protection Fellows The Rural Futures Cluster...
4 January 2023
Will 2023 be a year in which we make progress on development, or continue to falter? Join the Institute of Development Studies on Tuesday 31 January at 4.00pm (UK time) for Recasting Development in 2023 to discover new thinking on where development is heading in the coming...
4 January 2023
As we entered the third year of the global Covid-19 pandemic, 2022 was set to be another year of discourse about the social and political dimensions of health and humanitarian crises. The research and engagement conducted through the IDS-partnership Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform...
19 December 2022
In this episode of Between the Lines podcast, Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist in the World Bank's Development Research Group, interviews Professor Mariz Tadros, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Mariz is editor of the book: What About Us? Global Perspectives on...
16 December 2022
Published in 2021, The Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry traces the roots of the radical advancement of methods and gives space to exploring critical issues which need to be understood in order to do good participatory work such as facilitation, reflective practice power analysis,...
15 December 2022
The UK’s Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, George Freeman MP, has today announced a new International Science Partnership Fund, with an initial £119 million to support its researchers in collaborating with scientists around the world. The fund, distributed from the...
14 December 2022
We have chosen a range of books selected by our Research Fellows as their must-reads of 2022. These books cover a whole range of themes within development studies: from the climate crisis; political settlements; the Green revolution; gender justice and many more. All are thought-provoking,...
14 December 2022
We are delighted to share the news that noted economist and IDS Emeritus Fellow Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones has been recognised for her contributions to development in Chile. Stephany has been named in the top 100 Senior Leaders of 2022 in the newspaper El Mercurio and the Catholic...
13 December 2022
Scientists say we are living in an age of mass extinction with on average the abundance of native species in most major land-based habitats has fallen by at least 20 per cent in the past 100 years. With COP15, also known as the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, now in full swing, the...
13 December 2022
Questions of justice are relevant to all aspects of climate and environmental change, from how and where the impacts are felt the most, the allocation and prioritisation of funding, the type of responses that are considered, to how negative impacts can arise from mitigation, adaptation, or...
12 December 2022
On December 7 and 8, over 100 policymakers, researchers, members of civil society, and other stakeholders will gather at the Radisson Blu in Freetown for a conference on the topic of tax for development in Sierra Leone. The event is hosted by the International Centre for Tax and Development...
8 December 2022
