The year’s edition of Ideas from IDS, our publication featuring student essays from the 2018/19 academic year, has for the first time a thematic focus: food. Ideas form a fundamental component of development studies, and there are a great number of them in this collection of top-class student...
27 August 2020
Having the right mix of talented, committed individuals is vital to achieving our vision of a more equitable and sustainable world, where people everywhere can live their lives free from poverty and injustice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEGqZRnKMgU&t=2s Research Fellows are our core...
27 August 2020
Covid-19 has had huge impacts around the world, that are exposing cracks in our systems and highlighting issues of inequality and injustice. The status quo is being challenged and researchers, practitioners and activists are looking at opportunities for progressive change. Here is a selection...
25 August 2020
The IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) is launching a new podcast series looking at the interconnections between belonging to a minority faith or belief and social, political and economic inequalities. Launching ahead of the International Day...
21 August 2020
Back in March, the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) team sat down with a group of water experts to discuss practical approaches and policy priorities to tackling the global water crisis ahead of COP26. We discussed how climate change issues can be redefined as...
19 August 2020
As India marks Independence Day (15 August), IDS colleagues are joining calls for the immediate release of students and activists in prison in Delhi, including former IDS student Devangana Kalita and her Pinjra Tod (‘break the cage’) co-founder Natasha Narwal. In an open letter the...
15 August 2020
A recent IDS initiative with partners in China has helped to strengthen cross-country networks and foster future leadership for development globally. Global development is at a turning point. Traditional approaches to development are being increasingly questioned by governments, practitioners...
12 August 2020
A new collaboration forged by IDS alumna, Tanjila Mazumder Drishti, is helping to support the menstrual health and wellbeing of more than 100,000 women and girls in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, Covid-19 has significantly reduced household income for many families in urban slums and rural villages...
6 August 2020
Following the Twitter boycott in response to anti-Semitic tweets by British rapper Wiley, the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) have warned that there is a wider global problem with rising and largely unchecked online hate speech against people from...
29 July 2020
Inclusive Futures, a consortium of 16 global partner organisations advocating for disability inclusion, which IDS is part of, is launching its new website on 24 July. The website (www.inclusivefutures.org) is a hub of information for the global disability and development communities on learning...
24 July 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has meant that many of us will be spending the vacation at home this year. But thankfully, there are a myriad of fantastic books and articles to occupy our time! So, whatever your interest is in international development, here are some of our top picks. IDS...
23 July 2020
A group of cross-party MPs in the UK has published a report on the effectiveness of UK aid and the potential impacts of the decision to merge the Department of International Development with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The merger follows similar changes made in countries such as Canada...
21 July 2020
