This week research funders will be urged to take a new approach to engaging evidence with policy that values collaborations and learning. As the world continues to be gripped by a pandemic that has prompted renewed political commitment to “following the science” a report from the Impact...
23 February 2021
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has established a formal Memorandum of Understanding with the University for Development Studies (UDS), based in Tamale, Ghana. The partnership will help to strengthen the knowledge base on issues including OneHealth, sustainable agriculture and water...
11 February 2021
“I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you.” Severn Cullis-Suzuki, 12 years old, Rio Earth Summit, 1992 “You come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words… all...
11 February 2021
A new series of events and resources from the ESRC STEPS Centre explores the front line of sustainability research: methods and methodologies. Amid pandemics, climate change and other crises, calls to ‘listen to the scientists’ on sustainability issues are louder than ever. These problems...
8 February 2021
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is pleased to offer the opportunity to join our Board of Trustees and participate in delivering our mission in which we want a more equitable and sustainable world, where people everywhere can live their lives free from poverty and injustice. Purpose...
5 February 2021
IDS has renewed its institutional partnership agreement with the International Institute of Social Studies in a move that highlights our shared values and ongoing commitment to ensuring the representation of social sciences in responses to global shocks. Reaffirming a long-standing...
2 February 2021
Responding to the news that a military coup has taken place in Myanmar, with a year-long state of emergency declared, Professor Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies, said: ‘IDS joins the global community in being highly concerned about the declaration of a state of...
1 February 2021
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was heralded, when launched in 2015, “a “We The Peoples” Agenda” by the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Ban Ki Mon. Civil society representatives and organisations participated and contributed expertise to the development of the...
28 January 2021
Congratulations Winter Graduates! You have achieved amazing things in extraordinary times and you should feel incredibly proud. 287 IDS students from more than 55 nations graduated this winter. Regretfully, we have had to postpone our January 2021 graduation ceremony due to Covid-19. But,...
28 January 2021
The Institute of Development Studies has appointed Dr Anabel Marin to lead its rapidly expanding research on business, markets and states in development. With the relationships between business, government and civic society evolving at pace, this is an increasingly important area within...
28 January 2021
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has been ranked as best international development policy think tank in the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. This is the second consecutive year that IDS has topped the ranking, putting us above Brookings Institution and the German...
28 January 2021
Religious discrimination can be a driver of poverty overall and harm many who those who are most marginalised and left furthest behind. A new CREID paper by Professor Katherine Marshall, finds that how we are able to identify and measure religious discrimination matters a great deal on...
22 January 2021
