On World Water Day, there is an urgent call for the global community to stop water waste and focus efforts on improving water quality. While much of the debate on water quality has been very technical, IDS and the ESRC STEPS Centre have tried to inject social science perspectives and call for...
22 March 2017
Development studies at Sussex which includes IDS’ postgraduate research and teaching programmes, regains top spot in world ranking.
7 March 2017
Lack of essential public services must be tackled in order for women’s economic empowerment to be achieved. This is the message that IDS researchers will stress when they attend the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York.
6 March 2017
On 8 March 2017, we not only celebrate International Women’s Day, but thirty years of our Gender and Development Masters course. Find out what our inspirational students are doing to #BeBoldForChange.
6 March 2017
Launched today is The Social Realities of Knowledge for Development, an edited collection of articles, bringing to the fore the importance of relationships and networks throughout the process of research impact.
6 March 2017
The UK’s long standing partnership with Bangladesh’s research and development community has been absolutely critical to the country’s remarkable progress over the last forty years. This is what NGO leaders and academics told Whitehall officials and MPs.
3 March 2017
IDS has signed a series of new agreements with Bangladesh partners including BRAC, James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSH) and the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD).
28 February 2017
On Valentine's Day two teams of students from IDS and University of Sussex were awarded for their inspiring ideas on how to tackle sexual violence.
22 February 2017
IDS alum Bolaji Abdullahi has been selected as a finalist for the British Council Alumni Awards 2017 in Nigeria under the Social Impact category, for his work on educational reforms in Nigeria.
14 February 2017
New research on sex education in the digital era highlights the urgent need for greater digital literacy skills for both sex educators and young people.
14 February 2017
The IDS Bulletin, was re-launched as a open access journal in January 2016. The re-launch saw the production of the publication brought back in-house and a new purpose-built website was launched which would host all new issues as well as the entire archive. One year later, statistics show a huge...
9 February 2017
IDS celebrated winter graduation with 48 Masters students and four Doctoral researchers, all of whom returned to Brighton to receive their certificates from IDS Director Melissa Leach and the University of Sussex Chancellor Sanjeev Patel.
9 February 2017
