The 2019 Ester Boserup prize for research on development has been awarded to Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at IDS and co-director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) STEPS Centre. The Ester Boserup prize is ‘awarded to a scholar whose research has improved and deepened...
25 April 2019
Professor Melissa Leach calls for more rigorous and robust evidence around the opportunities and challenges that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) presents in terms of achieving sustainable development outcomes at launch of Belt and Road Studies Network.
24 April 2019
As part of the Public Authority and Legitimacy Making (PALM) project in urban Lebanon and Jordan, the team has launched a call for communities to share images to show how authority is exercised by 30 May 2019. These images will contribute to the wider project and research on host-refugee...
17 April 2019
Collaborating across disciplines and sectors to realise health for all
5 April 2019
IDS and Sussex alum Mamunur Rahman has been announced as a winner of the British Council Study UK Alumni Awards. The awards recognise the outstanding achievements of alumni and showcase the impact and value of a UK higher education. Three winners, all alumni of UK universities, were...
4 April 2019
Amidst the uncertainties in the UK over Brexit, IDS would like to assure everyone that, regardless of Brexit outcomes, IDS greatly values and is fully committed to continued engagement with partner organisations in the EU and with staff, colleagues and students from the EU.
27 March 2019
Religious inequalities, discrimination and conflict, driven by religious nationalism and ethnic tensions, are increasing challenges for many countries in East Asia. Over 80 delegates from a broad spectrum of academic, development practice, civil society and religious backgrounds recently...
25 March 2019
IDS and Sussex alum Mamunur Rahman has been announced as a global finalist for the prestigious British Council Alumni Awards in Entrepreneurial category.
22 March 2019
In a major cabinet reshuffle on 15 March, President of the Gambia, Adama Barrow, appointed IDS alum, Isatou Touray, as Vice President.
19 March 2019
IDS alumn, Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada, is among global leaders featured in a photography exhibition opening in London on 14 March.
13 March 2019
The University of Sussex has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of over £400,000 to improve the accessibility of the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS), ensuring it becomes an invaluable and enduring research resource for a new generation of scholars. The grant will be jointly...
13 March 2019
A major new IDS research project on trust and global governance has been launched with £2.3m of funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
11 March 2019
