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
The Institute of Development Studies is delighted to confirm that Malawian born artist Samson Kambalu will deliver this year’s IDS Annual Lecture, which will be livestreamed publicly on Thursday 25 November. Samson is a globally renowned artist and intellectual whose Antelope sculpture will...
18 October 2021
Recently, as part of the Gendered Price of Precarity project, youth researchers have been looking into the experiences of women working in Ugandan markets. The emerging findings from the project show that most women working in markets in Uganda have no platforms for power and their voices are...
13 October 2021
Professor Melissa Leach, the Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), has received the Award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in recognition of her significant contribution to social science. The Academy of Social Sciences is the national academy of academics,...
6 October 2021
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is launching a new initiative in Bangladesh to generate policy-relevant research and evidence to support Covid-19 recovery and increase resilience to future shocks. Supported by the UK Government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO),...
4 October 2021
After a challenging summer of Covid restrictions, the IDS community were delighted to welcome more than 260 students from around the world to study our master’s degrees in international development. The new master’s cohort will experience a hybrid of in-person and online teaching. Last...
27 September 2021
Over 1,600 registered to join in a series of webinars held this week as part of Participation Research Week to mark launch of the SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry. In the sessions, editors and authors of the handbook discussed cutting-edge approaches to participatory...
24 September 2021
The global picture of livestock’s impacts on climate change has been distorted by faulty assumptions that focus on intensive farming in rich countries, according to a new report published by the PASTRES research programme. Ahead of the COP26 climate conference and the UN Food Systems...
22 September 2021
Ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit taking place this week (23 September), experts are calling for a number of steps to protect the food and livelihood security of those hardest hit by Covid-19 – women and workers in informal economies around the world. The key recommendations below – aimed...
21 September 2021
The UK has a new Secretary of State to lead the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office at a crucial stage for the future direction of its international development strategy. The Rt Hon Liz Truss MP has been appointed the UK’s new Secretary of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth and...
17 September 2021
The first ever SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry has been published, providing the most comprehensive source of contemporary, cutting-edge participatory research methods and design. It provides the tools for inclusive, action-orientated research and new ways to engage the most...
15 September 2021
