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Student-run initiatives at IDS: The Anti-Caste Reading Circle

This academic year, students from our master’s programmes organised a weekly Anti-Caste Reading Circle. MA Gender and Development student Chandni Sai Ganesh writes about her experiences of enriching her learning outside the classroom through the student-run initiative. One of the first...

Chandni Sai Ganesh

29 August 2024

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BASIC partnership spurs more positive social assistance practices

In a recent example of effective, equitable partnerships, action research methods shared by IDS have contributed to improving social assistance practices that were distressing local people. The change was the result of partnership working between IDS Research Fellow Jackie Shaw and IDS...

26 August 2024

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Powercube tool empowers UK nurses to act

Launched in 2009, the Powercube.net is a toolbox for analysing power relations to further social change. Developed by IDS Research Fellow John Gaventa, with Research Associate Jethro Pettit, and a number of partners, the website allows global audiences to access a number of resources. Over the...

24 August 2024

Student Opinion

The lowdown on being a Student Rep at IDS

The year our master’s students spend at IDS is challenging, interesting, varied and fun… We are so grateful for the hardworking Student Reps and Union Councillors, who help ensure their fellow students have the best experience possible. As the final term rumbles to a close we wanted to...

21 August 2024

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Working children as agents of change against child labour

Children working in Bangladesh’s leather industry and Nepal’s adult entertainment sector have co-developed ways to improve their lives as participants in Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA), a major IDS-led participatory programme focusing on...

20 August 2024

Opinion

Zimbabweland’s top posts so far this year

Time to catch up on some of the blogs that you missed! Below are listed the top 15 blogs by views this year. Lots of themes to explore – on land, agriculture, drought and much more. The year started with a short series on financing agriculture, based on recent research across our study areas....

Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones

19 August 2024

Opinion

Gen Z are ready to help build a new future for Bangladesh

Undoing the damage of the past 15 years in Bangladesh will be a challenge but its Gen Z student population stand ready and engaged to help build a different kind of politics, and future, for the country of over 170 million people. ‘Second independence’ is how Bangladeshis have...

Sohela Nazneen
Sohela Nazneen

15 August 2024

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