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5 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
IDS researchers attending this year's Commission for the Status of Women highlight limitations of cash transfers in achieving women's empowerment if they are not coupled with access to adequate public services and infrastructure.
11 March 2019
On Friday 8 March, millions of people around the world celebrate International Women’s Day, paying tribute to women’s achievements in the ongoing fight for equality. Key to realising this year’s campaign of 'building a gender-balanced world’ is strengthening women’s participation in...
6 March 2019
The University of Sussex is number one in the world for development studies for the third consecutive year in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
27 February 2019
