The necessity to address the challenges of climate change and environmental degradation is usually expressed in terms of visions of desirable futures, which are implemented through large-scale green transformation programmes. This research project aims to explore high-end conceptualisations of...
In the UK, 50% of people in the most deprived areas report poor health by age 55–59, over two decades earlier than those in the least deprived areas. Health inequalities are avoidable, unfair, and systematic differences in health between different groups of people. Health inequalities exist...
This one-year research project will investigate the scale and impacts of Chinese renewable energy activities in Africa. We will focus on China’s involvement in critical mining activities in relation to the renewable energy and energy storage sectors, including lithium, cobalt, and nickel. We...
The Just Transitions Learning Project will increase voice and power, and support more inclusive and effective advocacy strategies, among marginalised communities and groups affected by energy transitions inhigh-inequality, resource-rich nations of Africa and Latin America.
How is the digitalisation of social protection affecting workers’ rights and digital rights?
The Sousveillance Project will document the supply chain of digital technologies from the global North used for illegal surveillance in Africa and produce evidence to hold accountable the companies that benefit from violating citizens’ rights.
Promoting Peaceful Pastoralism is an XCEPT, Conciliation resources funded project which examines changes to cross-border pastoral movements on the Uganda/Kenya border, in particular, as a result of environmental change and their implications for peace and security, and uses research findings...
Background The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened existing social, health and nutritional inequities and highlighted common challenges facing marginalised and racialised communities in cities across the Global North and South. It has also driven new social innovations and cross-sector...
This project juxtaposes the notion of the 'good city' and the classical idea of the topos of the good life in tension with the concept of the '24-Hour Risk City' to understand the interactions between multiple forms of urban violence and climate risks in Nairobi (Kenya) and Karachi...
The global competition to develop vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic has collapsed the typical timescale in which new technologies gain market dominance and leave alternatives behind. Despite the high number of vaccines in development, at the start of this study only three have been...
This IDRC-funded research project, Knowledge Translation in the Global South, seeks to identify similarities and differences in knowledge translation strategies and practices used by Southern researchers across different disciplines, investigating the challenges they experience. It will...
As a part of the Afghanistan Strategic Learning Initiative, IDS led a workshop exploring needs and vulnerability in Afghanistan. Leveraging the collective knowledge and experience of leading global think tanks working on Afghanistan and aid issues, the resulting report will be based on analysis...