In March 2020, the IDS building fell silent after the worldwide outbreak of Covid-19. Following long months of lockdowns and uncertainly, in early 2021 we began to see the building reopening and our community being able to return to being in the same space. In the conversations about...
5 October 2021
Every institution, be it the British Royal Family, the United Nations or a University are a product of the historical, cultural, and social spaces they inhabit. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is no exception. Our pedagogy, the research we conduct and the stories that we tell are all...
7 May 2021
We live in a world where it feels increasingly vital to stand up and make the case for the positive changes we want to see whether that’s protecting rights or securing our wellbeing. International development finds itself in an increasingly precarious position, from grassroots civil...
16 December 2020
“History is necessary to understand the present, to speak truth to power, and to fuel hope – no matter how controversial and many times put under scrutiny – that, despite historical turnarounds, some form of progress exists, or will in the future, and that it is possible to be in a better...
19 February 2020
Health and care partners in Brighton and Hove are to be part of a new Trans-Atlantic research project to find important lessons from the pandemic to help reduce inequality. The Institute of Development Studies research project aims to identify the innovations and collaborations that have...
15 June 2022
Amidst calls for the decolonisation of the social sciences, histories of economic knowledge centred in the Global South can help reflect on what this might mean in practice. The British Library for Development Studies hosts a world-leading collection of economists’ writings from Asia, Africa...
China has indicated its ever-greater commitment to environmental sustainability and biodiversity under the rubric of “ecological civilisation”. But what this means in practice is unclear. Given its historic weakness in actual environmental policy implementation, China is currently engaged in...
As Brazil heads into a decisive election later this year, it finds itself at the forefront of the global debate on political extremism and disinformation. While trust in institutions and civic engagement are at a historic low, civil society organisations and movements are engaged in reversing...