Governance, Power and Participation

Our research on governance, power relations, participation and citizen engagement, informs change processes in pursuit of social justice and social change. With power and politics central to our analysis, we support the generation of new evidence that contributes to improved processes for good governance, citizen engagement, empowerment and accountability.

We pioneer new ways of working with governments, communities, activists and academics, to understand the complex relationships and processes that exist across states, markets, and citizens, and between formal and informal institutions, to tackle issues such as digital inequalities, women’s participation and empowerment, decentralisation and local governance, rapid urbanisation, migration, taxation and domestic resource mobilisation, food security and hunger and nutrition. These draw on our extensive expertise in complex approaches to how change happens.  Through our research and policy partnerships we are also bringing new insights on the role that rising powers and emerging economies such as China and Brazil have in relation to global governance and tackling development challenges such as sustainability and poverty.  Our world-renown participatory research has a particular emphasis on systematic social exclusion facing women, people living in extreme poverty, people with disabilities, slaves bonded labourers, indigenous peoples and others. We advance cutting edge methodological development in action research, participatory visual methods, participatory mapping, participatory statistics, participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) amongst others.

People

Danny Burns

Professorial Research Fellow

Anuradha Joshi

Research Fellow

Shandana Khan Mohmand

Cluster leader and Research Fellow

Miguel Loureiro

Research Fellow

Patta Scott-Villiers

Research Fellow

Mariz Tadros

Director (CREID)

Rosemary McGee

Power and Popular Politics Cluster Lead

Mick Moore

Professorial Fellow

Programmes and centres

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Opinion

Covid-19 and quarantine in Peru – what does this mean for people with disabilities?

The Peruvian government led by President Martin Vizcarra has been praised for their response to Covid-19. A strict lockdown under martial law was swiftly enacted in March and will continue till the end of June, making it one of the longest enforced quarantine periods globally. Despite these...

Renato Antonio Constantino Caycho

27 May 2020

News

New IDS Bulletin reflects on 50 years of pastoralism

Pastoralism is a way of life for millions of people around the world, farming livestock in wide geographical areas and moving with their herds. However, it can often been a neglected or marginalised subject. The new IDS Bulletin reflects on fifty years of research on pastoralism at IDS, bringing...

27 May 2020

Journal

Fifty Years of Research on Pastoralism and Development

IDS Bulletin 51.1A

This archive IDS Bulletin reflects on 50 years of research on pastoralism at IDS. Much has changed, but there are also important continuities. The ‘end of pastoralism’ was proclaimed widely in the 1970s, yet, as a successful, resilient livelihood adapted to some of the harshest...

Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones & 9 others

27 May 2020

News

Solidarity with researchers arrested in India

Staff at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have expressed their solidarity with the two researchers  IDS alum Devangana Kalita (MA Gender and Development) and Natasha Narwal, founding members of the movement Pinjra Tod ('break the cage'), who have been arrested in India following their...

24 May 2020

Brief

K4D COVID-19 Conflict and Governance Evidence Summaries

K4D is publishing these weekly Conflict and Governance Evidence Summaries to signpost FCDO and other UK government departments to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on COVID-19 to inform and support their response. The final K4D Conflict and Governance Evidence Summary, No.30, was...

22 May 2020

Why learn with us.

In an extraordinary time of challenge and change, we use more than 50 years of expertise to transform development approaches that create more equitable and sustainable futures. The work you do with us will help make progressive change towards universal development; to build and connect solidarities for collective action, locally and globally. The University of Sussex has been ranked 1st in the world for Development Studies for the past five years (QS World University Rankings by Subject).