This Friday 26 March, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) will be hosting a 24 hour bread-a-thon that aims to make more than three thousand loaves of bread and soup for the East Brighton Food Cooperative to distribute to those facing food shortages across Brighton and Hove. The baking...
22 March 2021
The UK Government has published a new policy paper entitled ‘Global Britain in a Competitive Age, the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy’. It sets out the Government’s vision for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade and action it will take...
16 March 2021
How should people address complex problems like climate change, environmental destruction, poverty and injustice? Solutions that at first might seem ‘simple’ and immediate can quickly unravel and, in the longer term, may even do more harm than good. With there always many different...
12 March 2021
The spread of Covid-19 in Pakistan was largely blamed on Shia pilgrims returning from Iran, including Hazara Shias, after Iran announced its first Covid-19 deaths in February 2020. Last year, the IDS-led CREID programme published perspectives from the frontline on experiences of the Hazara...
12 March 2021
In response to recent updates on the extent of the cuts to ODA-funded budgets for international research, which will leave UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) facing a £120m shortfall, Professor Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies, said: “At a time when recovery from...
11 March 2021
Devangana Kalita, a graduate of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the leading global institute for development studies, has been held in prison in India since May 2020. Devangana was arrested alongside several others including fellow activist Natasha Narwal, for participating in...
10 March 2021
International Women’s Day on 8 March brings a welcome focus on women’s rights and equality at a time when the highly gendered impacts of Covid-19 have the potential to threaten decades of slow progress. Globally, women are experiencing the unequal impacts of the pandemic...
5 March 2021
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has been ranked first in the world for development studies in the QS University Rankings by Subject, together with the University of Sussex. Our degrees are delivered in partnership with the University of Sussex who support and accredit our teaching...
4 March 2021
The African Digital Rights Network publishes the first comparative study on the digital rights landscapes of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Cameroon. In the first study of its kind, researchers in ten African countries have documented 115...
2 March 2021
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
