Sonar-Global, a new EU project involving IDS, will build an international Social Sciences network for the prevention and response to infectious threats and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The project will provide a platform for collaboration among social sciences experts, institutions and...
26 February 2019
The ESRC STEPS Centre has launched a new theme on Uncertainty, with a series of activities planned for 2019. The STEPS Centre, hosted at the Institute of Development Studies and SPRU, University of Sussex, is hosting an international symposium, The Politics of Uncertainty, in July, as...
13 February 2019
Over 120 researchers and officials from 20 African and 6 international countries meet this week for IDS’ International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) seventh annual meeting in association with the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA). This comes at a time when taxation is high on the agenda...
5 February 2019
The Institute of Development Studies has been ranked second out of 132 international development think tanks in the 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, retaining its ranking from the 2017 index. The Institute has also been ranked fourth out of 95 university-affiliated think tanks, a...
1 February 2019
Last week IDS celebrated the graduation of 244 master’s and doctoral students. IDS graduates joined thousands of students from across the globe graduating at a two-day Winter Graduation event held at the Brighton Centre. In total, just under 3,000 students from over 100 countries...
28 January 2019
IDS researchers and knowledge professionals will be working with partners in four of the 12 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Research Hubs announced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and UKRI. Over the next five years they will contribute to efforts to...
22 January 2019
Professor Paul Streeten, died peacefully earlier this month, aged 101, in his home in Princeton in the US. He was the acting Director of IDS in 1967-68, before Dudley Seers became Director. As a young man Paul was active in underground left wing politics in Austria, his country of birth, but...
11 January 2019
Research Fellow, Dr Jeremy Allouche has been appointed to the Editorial Board of International Peacekeeping, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor and Francis. Established in 1994, International Peacekeeping was the first scholarly journal devoted to studying the growing...
9 January 2019
Melanie Robinson, who studied at IDS from 1999 – 2001 for a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in International Development, has been appointed as the new UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe. After graduating from IDS, Melanie worked in a variety of positions for the Department for International Development...
7 January 2019
Project Enable Africa has won 'The Google Impact Challenge Nigeria' prize in recognition of its work to promote the access of persons with disabilities and their caregivers to information and communication technologies (ICTs) skills and opportunities. The winning project is led by...
10 December 2018
A new initiative to gather stories of rapid change is launched on 3 December, at the start of COP24, the UN’s annual global conference on climate change. The Rapid Transition Alliance (RTA) explores the lessons from changes – over a scale of five to ten years – that represent...
3 December 2018
As 12 million young people enter the African labour force each year, there are only 3 million new jobs for them (pdf). The major challenge is not just about creating enough jobs for them, but on creating ‘decent’ jobs, argues the new IDS bulletin. https://youtu.be/Lb-xvl7DUhg The...
28 November 2018
