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20 October 2017
Commemorating the life and work of Geoff Oldham, CBE
It is with deep regret and sadness that we share the news that Professor Geoff Oldham (age 88) passed away on Sunday 1 October 2017.
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4 October 2017
Has Universal Development Come of Age?
A timely new IDS Bulletin entitled ‘Has Universal Development Come of Age?’ explores how South and North approaches to development can be interlinked and argues that in order to achieve development for all more needs to be known about the nature of learning from South to North.
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19 September 2017
IDS releases its Annual Review 2017
The Institute of Development Studies has published its Annual Review 2017 – with a focus on its unique approach to development through ‘engaged excellence’.
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21 July 2017
IDS Director elected as new Fellow of British Academy
Director of the Institute of Development Studies, Professor Melissa Leach CBE, has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her significant contributions to research in the social sciences.
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13 June 2017
New perspectives on Africa’s youth employment challenge highlight need to rethink current policies
At a time when the youth employment challenge is worsening in Africa, authors of a new IDS Bulletin provide some much needed scrutiny of conventional policy approaches to youth unemployment and highlight the need to rethink interventions on training, migration, non-farm employment and entrepreneurship.
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11 May 2017
Effective responses to violence require greater attention to security in the vernacular, say IDS researchers
In a new special issue of the journal Peacebulding IDS researchers call for policymakers and practitioners to rethink security, peacebuilding and violence reduction in the light of Sustainable Development Goal 16 on ‘promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development’.
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6 March 2017
Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work
Lack of essential public services must be tackled in order for women’s economic empowerment to be achieved. This is the message that IDS researchers will stress when they attend the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York.
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6 March 2017
Being bold for change on International Women’s Day
On 8 March 2017, we not only celebrate International Women’s Day, but thirty years of our Gender and Development Masters course. Find out what our inspirational students are doing to #BeBoldForChange.
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3 March 2017
UK aid and research funding is helping to transform lives in Bangladesh, MPs told
The UK’s long standing partnership with Bangladesh’s research and development community has been absolutely critical to the country’s remarkable progress over the last forty years. This is what NGO leaders and academics told Whitehall officials and MPs.
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14 February 2017
New insights on global sex education in our digital era
New research on sex education in the digital era highlights the urgent need for greater digital literacy skills for both sex educators and young people.