For the second year in a row, 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 co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at...
16 November 2021
Since 2006, the ESRC STEPS Centre has focused on complex challenges around social justice and environmental sustainability, building on long-standing struggles. From epidemics and pandemics to water, energy, food and other resources, and the politics of innovation and technologies, the STEPS...
10 November 2021
For businesses to act on climate change, they need to hear a combination of messages that convey urgency but also an optimism that they can make a difference. This was one of the central arguments made at a roundtable last week on climate change, business and sustainable development hosted by...
10 November 2021
Progress towards the UN global goal to ‘eliminate child labour in all its forms by 2025’ will not be made in countries with a significant child labour problem unless attention is focused on where the most dangerous forms exist – small businesses in the informal sector. This is based on...
10 November 2021
The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, returned to the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex yesterday (Thursday 4 November) where he studied in 2009. He made the Brighton trip to meet with local students and researchers while in the UK to participate in the...
5 November 2021
The expectation surrounding next week’s COP26 summit in Glasgow is intense, with the world waiting – and hoping – for international delegations to make progress on tackling climate change and fulfilling the promises made in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Researchers at IDS argue that now must...
28 October 2021
The Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK Government today announced the Autumn Budget and Spending Review, which outlines the spending plans for government departments for the next three years. Within the announcement the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, said that the UK’s overseas aid budget would...
27 October 2021
These four articles below are taken from the forthcoming IDS Bulletin which calls for a reframing of climate – and broader environmental – justice debates. The full issue will be published in early 2022, but these 'online first articles' argue that achieving meaningful action on the climate...
26 October 2021
As the Taliban take control of Afghanistan once again, questions are being raised about the possible curtailment of women’s access to humanitarian support. Between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban implemented discriminatory policies starkly at odds with humanitarian principles. While much has...
26 October 2021
Reginald Herbold Green (born 4 May 1935) died aged 86 early on Saturday 16 October at Madeira House Nursing Home, Louth. Reg was a development economist specialising in East and Southern Africa and was a Fellow at IDS from 1975 to 2000, when he retired. Reginald Herbold Green was born...
26 October 2021
A new report warns existing laws are failing to protect privacy rights, with governments in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Sudan overreaching surveillance powers to monitor citizens. With mass surveillance in direct violation of citizen’s constitutional rights and...
21 October 2021
Amina J. Mohamme, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations has written an endorsement of the recently published SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry. The Handbook presents contemporary, cutting-edge approaches to participatory research and inquiry. It has been...
18 October 2021