In recent years podcast popularity has exploded, and the medium has become a global phenomenon. There are now over 7.1 million podcasts and listener numbers are rapidly growing, one in eight people in the UK listen to podcasts weekly and the trend is increasing globally. But why are podcasts...
4 February 2020
Staff at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have expressed their solidarity with researchers and students, including IDS alum Ammar Rashid (2011-12 MA Development Studies), who have been arrested in Pakistan following peaceful protests against the arrest of Pakistani political activist,...
31 January 2020
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has been ranked as best international development policy think tank in the 2019 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. The ranking puts IDS above Brookings Institution and the German Development Institute, in an index that includes more than 131 think...
31 January 2020
Despite great efforts made to agree global goals for development, the world continues to be an uncertain, challenging environment for many people. This is true in some of the most challenging, marginal environments, where food and livelihoods rely on pastoralism – a way of life that revolves...
30 January 2020
Higher education must drive efforts to promote greater working across disciplines and sectors in order to generate the knowledge needed for meeting the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development (Global Goals) by 2030. This is what IDS Director, Professor Melissa Leach told senior...
27 January 2020
Professor Naila Kabeer, Emeritus Fellow, IDS was awarded an honorary degree from Sussex University at the recent winter graduation. Naila is a feminist economist who has spent her career focusing on individuals and groups in South Asia who are on the margins of their societies and...
27 January 2020
Over 250 Masters students graduated from the Institute of Development Studies, who in partnership with the University of Sussex, is ranked number one in the world for development studies in the QS World University Rankings. Students come to Brighton to study at IDS from around the world and...
23 January 2020
Today the UK Government is hosting the UK-Africa Investment Summit, which aims to promote the UK as a key investment partner for Africa and ‘create new lasting partnerships that will deliver more investment, jobs and growth.’ Researchers at IDS have been looking at the benefits and risks of...
20 January 2020
The IDS Bulletin is the flagship journal from the Institute of Development Studies , bringing together the latest thinking and research from IDS and its partners and presenting this in an accessible way for development practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Since 1968 it has covered...
15 January 2020
Staff at the Institute of Development Studies have expressed their solidarity with staff and students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India, following recent violence there. They are greatly concerned by the unprecedented violence unleashed by masked groups targeting students and staff...
8 January 2020
In November 2020, IDS, and over 2,000 fellow members and partners from over 140 countries will meet in Dubai for the biennial Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (#HSR2020). The Symposium is co-sponsored by Health Systems Global (HSG) – the international membership society for...
7 January 2020
It has been another busy year for IDS and our project partners, and an important year for international development. At a time when the world is grappling with a series of dramatic social and political shifts, our work continues to bring important new evidence, insights and engagement to...
19 December 2019
