Person

Sophie Robinson

Sophie Robinson

External Affairs Manager

Sophie is a communications professional with expertise in public affairs, media relations, crisis communications and reputational risk management, and event management.

Over the past fifteen years, her experience has spanned the private and not-for-profit sectors, including working on major public-facing campaigns at the UK housing charity Shelter, the National Housing Federation and the Big Lottery Fund (now the National Lottery Community Fund).

At IDS she is based in the Communications and Engagement Team, leading on external affairs, including public affairs, media relations and flagship events, including the IDS Annual Lecture.

Opinions

Opinion

To leave no one behind we must focus on food equity

The theme for this year’s World Food Day (16 October) is ‘leave no one behind’. However, the leave no one behind agenda as part of the Sustainable Development Goals focuses largely on addressing deprivation and not the broader inequities - injustices and power imbalances – that drive...

Lídia Cabral
Lídia Cabral & 5 others

10 October 2022

Publications

Report

Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash

Significant progress on gender equality has been made in past decades, but in recent years gender and sexual rights are increasingly under threat from a global wave of gender backlash. This is not new. Feminists have long faced resistance while building strategic steps towards greater gender...

Chung-Ah Baek & 8 others

21 November 2024

Report

Pathways to Equitable Food Systems

IDS Report

Globally, our food systems are highly inequitable. In a world with enough food, hunger is becoming normalised for large numbers of people, while diets are worsening and obesity is rising. Racialised minorities are more at risk from obesity than other groups; indigenous communities have...

Lídia Cabral
Lídia Cabral & 4 others

26 June 2023

Brief

The Modern Slavery Trap: Bonded Labour

IDS Modern Slavery Briefing;

International enterprises, sex work, organised crime groups, and exploitative recruitment agencies have dominated the discussion on modern slavery in recent years. However, while this work is important, it is just the tip of the iceberg.

15 May 2018

Sophie Robinson’s recent work

Past Event

Sussex Development Lectures

Humanitarian diplomacy in a world gone mad

Join us for this Sussex Development Lecture with Martin Griffiths, former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator of the United Nations, as part of the series on power, politics and hope. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/live/yxk57iwGJWo Martin...

19 March 2025

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