European Engagement Initiative
The European Engagement Initiative provides research focus on the universal development challenges that have a global dimension within...
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The European Engagement Initiative provides research focus on the universal development challenges that have a global dimension within...
The IDS China Centre, part of the IDS International Initiatives, provides research focus on a country transforming global geopolitics...
SSHAP (the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform) focuses on the social dimensions of emergency responses related to health,...
With funding provided by the Wellcome Trust this project is intended to improve the accessibility of the British Library of Development...
IDS, including the IDS Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development, is the UK Anchor Institution for the China International Development Research Network (CIDRN), funded by the FCDO.
The Epidemic Response Anthropology Platform (ERAP) is a resource to support a humane and effective response to epidemics. The aim of the platform is to promote evidence on the social dimensions of epidemics in different contexts and to improve the way this evidence is used in response planning.
Deadly diseases with pandemic potential are a global concern, but local people’s understandings of these diseases and their knowledge in preparing for them is often ignored. This research will explore ‘preparedness from below’ by highlighting the importance of local perspectives to disease response which have not been fully recognised and supported in global discourses so far.
The ESRC STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement centre.
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action: A Communication for Development Platform aims to establish networks of social scientists with regional and subject expertise to rapidly provide insight, analysis and advice, tailored to demand and in accessible forms, to better design and implement the social and communication dimensions of emergency responses.
The next World Social Science Report due to be published in 2016 will focus on the critical contemporary issues of inequalities and justice.