Alice is a communications and knowledge professional, working with the Sanitation Learning Hub, as well as projects focused on children and youth rights and participation. Alice’s academic background is in languages and literature, and she is interested in creating compelling and accessible stories from international development research.
SSHAP (the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform) focuses on the social dimensions of emergency responses related to health, conflict, or the environment by exploring the political economy, community engagement and cultural logics, social difference, and vulnerabilities of those...
Visit the Rejuvenate website 'Rejuvenate’ is a project that recognises the value that children and young people can bring when they are given the space and support to do so. It began with a process to collate and map previous and current child rights projects that exhibit substantive...
Together with partners around the world, our focus is to support and strengthen the sector to tackle the complex challenges it faces in delivering the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2.
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action: A Communication for Development Platform aims to establish networks of social scientists with regional and subject expertise to rapidly provide insight, analysis and advice, tailored to demand and in accessible forms, to better design and implement the...
Research published by UCL in 2021 highlighted synergies between sanitation and all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite this many water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) actors operate in isolation, with few opportunities for learning from across sectors. Over the years, here at the...
24 February 2022
At IDS, we believe that evidence-based research plays a vital role in bringing about a more equitable and sustainable world. And to achieve this, we are committed to communicating research beyond academic audiences and journal articles. However, we are very aware of the responsibility we...
15 February 2022
Over the past few years at IDS, colleagues in the Knowledge, Impact and Policy cluster have been considering how to best meet an increasing need to produce high-quality translations of research publications when budgets are limited. In an effort to improve the effectiveness of this process, we...
6 October 2021
2 December 2020
Personas are short profiles of fictional but realistic individuals that we use to describe particular groups of users and stakeholders. They are useful for thinking about the design of interventions and / or programmes in a particular process from the user perspective – particularly (but not...
25 January 2019
Architecture students from Umeå University (Sweden) and Yaşar University (Turkey) have collaborated with Syrian refugees and low-income Turkish residents to create community-focused architectural designs in İzmir, Turkey. The collaboration is part of the interdisciplinary “Wellbeing,...
23 August 2021
IDS has pioneered approaches to linking up the supply of inclusive research with the demand for evidence from governments, donors, international development agencies, and civil society. It has also helped shape the concept of the politics of knowledge and current understandings of the...
The GODAN Action project is pleased to re-open applications to their free e-learning course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition.
22 June 2018
From 19 to 23 March, IDS representatives will be taking part in a series of activities to reflect on promoting the use of open data in the agriculture and nutrition sectors, as partners in the GODAN (Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition) Action project funded by the UK's Department for...
20 March 2018