Starting 25 November, activists around the world will be marking 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence - an annual international campaign to raise awareness of the issue of gender-based violence (GBV) and to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and...
24 November 2022
For the third consecutive year, Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, has been included in the annual Highly Cited Researchers List that recognises the global influence of academics within their field. Ian Scoones is principal investigator of the ERC Advanced...
21 November 2022
Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan’s first female architect and pioneer of self-build design for the poorest communities has said that an expansion of her framework of community architecture is necessary to build disaster resilient communities in Pakistan, while speaking at the the IDS 2022 Annual...
16 November 2022
Health inequalities are avoidable, unfair, and there are systematic differences in health between different groups of people. Health inequalities exist due to differences and interactions between a variety of factors across a population, including income, housing, and environment, as well as...
11 November 2022
In just two decades since the early 2000s, social protection established itself as a vibrant social policy sector in countries across the Global South, from Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa to South Asia. Social protection appeared in several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Even...
10 November 2022
Sunday (6 Nov) marked the start of the 27th Conference of the Parties, the UN summit known as COP27, which brings together over 190 countries to negotiate international action on climate change. As governments, charities, think tanks, businesses and advocacy groups gather in Egypt over the next...
8 November 2022
We’re excited to announce that IDS is hosting a lecture exploring leadership in global development through stories and experiences shared by guest speaker, IDS alumni Pauline Koelbl, who has over 20 years’ experience in international affairs and venture philanthropy. The lecture will take...
2 November 2022
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP), a partnership between the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Anthrologica and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has recently received two awards. A recent brief won the Society for Medical Anthropology’s...
2 November 2022
120 million citizens of Brazil have voted, and Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva has been elected as Brazil’s next President. However, in the tight run-off race held on Sunday, he only beat the incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro by the tightest of margins, with the final result being Lula...
2 November 2022
On International Day of Freedom of Religion or Belief, we are delighted to share our newly published eBook “What about us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities”. Co-published with the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), the book...
27 October 2022
IDS Cities Cluster Research Fellow Nausheen Anwar has been appointed to the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for a new project seeking to better protect people from the growing problem of overheating indoors. The project, titled Informing Decision-Making About Indoor Heat Risks to Human Health is...
26 October 2022
A new series of the Sussex Development Lectures launches this month with engaging guest speakers exploring declining multilateralism and the need to develop alternative, more effective global solidarities. Globally, international cooperation and multilateral institutions have been under...
24 October 2022
