Opinion

Development Perspectives: Migrant Workers of India

Beyond the ‘Balance of Nature’: Pastoralists’ Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability

Ian Scoones

The future of UK-India trade and development – part two

As the Covid-19 crisis continues across India, the pandemic has highlighted a new dimension to the UK-India partnership, particularly in health and vaccine supply and distribution.  And despite the UK Prime Minister’s intended trip to India being cancelled due to the second wave of Covid-19,...

Amrita Saha & 2 others

Basic water and waste services for marginalised Christian communities in Lahore, Pakistan

Religious minority communities in Lahore, Pakistan, are frequently deprived of basic services such as access to clean drinking water and waste management which are available to neighbouring religious majority Muslim residents, according to research by local NGO, Hive, supported by Al Khoei...

Sample lecture from our Shaping Policy with Evidence short course

This week, applications opened for our popular online course for professionals: Shaping Policy with Evidence.   The course is designed for practitioners and researchers seeking to build their skills and knowledge to more effectively shape policy with evidence for positive social...

James Georgalakis

The future of UK-India trade and development – part one

The Covid-19 outbreak currently devastating India meant that the UK Prime Minister’s intended visit this month had to be cancelled, and for now it appears the trade talks will be on hold, while the immediate crisis rightly takes priority. However, longer-term, the two countries’ ‘Enhanced...

Amrita Saha & 2 others

Safeguarding for youth activism: Taking a feminist approach

Conservation agriculture: latest experiences from Zimbabwe

Ian Scoones

Other worlds are possible, and they do exist

Resilience in action on the drylands of Turkana

Bridging social divides: how can decolonising knowledge help?

In many ways and in many countries we seem to be witnessing greater social divides driven by race, gender, class and financial inequities. Powerful evidence of these were brought into sharp focus by the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements. Throughout 2020 we also saw the Covid-19 pandemic...

Peter Taylor

Crystal Tremblay

Nurturing effective science-to-policy pathways for public health

There can be few better illustrations of the need for good science-to-policy pathways than the current pandemic. While many are casting Covid-19 as the warning the world needed to wake up to the threat of animal-to human (zoonotic) disease spillover, researchers had been striking the warning...

Naomi Marks