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Free online course on Pathways to Sustainability launched
The ESRC STEPS Centre has launched a new online learning website for self-study and use in teaching.
21 June 2017
The ESRC STEPS Centre has launched a new online learning website for self-study and use in teaching.
21 June 2017
Professor Leach’s contribution to social sciences recognised in Queen’s Honours List
16 June 2017
Infectious diseases traceable to animals are driven by climate change, land-use change and the massive expansion of towns and cities, according to contributors to a paper in a major new output from the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium, a STEPS Centre (IDS/University of Sussex) led...
14 June 2017
At a time when the youth employment challenge is worsening in Africa, authors of a new IDS Bulletin provide some much needed scrutiny of conventional policy approaches to youth unemployment and highlight the need to rethink interventions on training, migration, non-farm employment and...
13 June 2017
It was with huge sadness that we received the news about Robin Murray’s untimely death at the weekend.
31 May 2017
Achim Steiner, incoming director of the UN Development Programme, discusses the role of Sustainable Development Goals in focusing action around the world on green transformations.
24 May 2017
In a new special issue of the journal Peacebulding IDS researchers call for policymakers and practitioners to rethink security, peacebuilding and violence reduction in the light of Sustainable Development Goal 16 on ‘promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development’.
11 May 2017
A new film by Health Systems Global and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research shows the vital role health policy and systems research (HPSR) plays in building stronger and more equitable health systems around the world.
9 May 2017
The European Research Council has awarded one of its prestigious Advanced Grants to IDS research fellow, Professor Ian Scoones. Based at the STEPS centre, Ian will take this opportunity to build upon his earlier work on pastoralism in Africa and share lessons from the margins to address global...
2 May 2017
In the face of climate change and social inequality, changing to a greener and fairer society might feel impossible – but rapid, radical transitions may be more possible than you might think, according to a new booklet published by the STEPS Centre and the New Weather Institute.
24 April 2017
A new IDS Rapid Response Briefing unpicks the hype around blockchain, with a ten-point checklist for development policymakers.
11 April 2017
Two IDS Research Fellows – Rosemary McGee and Lars Otto Naess have both won the University of Sussex Student-Led Teaching Award for 2016–17.
7 April 2017
