Tilman Brück is Founder and Director of ISDC (International Security and Development Center) in Berlin, Professor of Food Security, State Fragility and Climate Change at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Households in Conflict Network. His research focuses on the behaviour and the welfare of households in conflict-affected, fragile and emergency settings.
As part of the our Trust and Governance programme, IDS has partnered up with a team of international researchers from the ISDC, UNU-WIDER, IGZ and University of Konstanz on an exciting and very timely research initiative to collect real time data on the coronavirus and its social and economic...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis affecting everyone. Yet, its challenges and countermeasures vary significantly over time and space. Individual experiences of the pandemic are highly heterogeneous and its impacts span and interlink multiple dimensions, such as health, economic, social...
1 August 2022
Gender differences (GD) in mental health have come under renewed scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. While rapidly emerging evidence indicates a deterioration of mental health in general, it remains unknown whether the pandemic will have an impact on GD in mental health. To this end, we...
27 July 2021
WIDER Working Paper;2020/82
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic and its counter-measures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping not just public health and the economy but also...
1 January 2020