Humanitarian diplomacy is a broad landscape and possibly one with internal contradictions. For example, traditionally humanitarian agencies have sought to distance themselves from mediation and...
Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) for his work on education in crises. Gauthier was named alongside co-editors Mary Mendenhall from Columbia University, Yusuf Sayed from the...
27 March 2025
The number of conflicts disrupting or halting the mining of critical minerals, like copper and lithium, is putting the energy transition required to combat climate change at risk, researchers warn in a new study. The new research from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) shows that...
25 March 2025
Initiatives led by grassroots organisations and community projects in Brighton & Hove are filling in the gaps left by failing welfare and food systems, according to new research released today. The new research, from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), found that initiatives...
19 March 2025
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in partnership with the University of Sussex, has been ranked first in the world for Development Studies in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 for the ninth consecutive year. The consistent number one ranking for Development...
12 March 2025
From the 10 to 21 March, people from all over the world will gather in New York for the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), which marks the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. While progress on rights has...
11 March 2025
According to the World Economic Forum, it will take until 2158 to reach full gender parity at the current rate of progress, which is why this year’s International Women’s Day theme is focused on Accelerating Action. Today, we are looking back at the International Centre for Tax and...
7 March 2025
As global, regional, and national stakeholders gather for the third Global Disability Summit to galvanise efforts on disability inclusion, our new report titled ‘Learning from the AHRC...
In early 2024 the UK government introduced legislation requiring that when housing or infrastructure development occurs in England, habitat for wildlife is left in a measurably better state than before. This Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) legislation is ambitious for nature and for people. The...
2 April 2025
The Raising Learning Outcomes (RLO) Programme emerged as a response to the global learning crisis. Launched in 2014 as a strategic partnership between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), a number of RLO researchers...
2 April 2025
On the back of Covid-19, high inflation and the uncertainty of climate-related disasters and other crises, many governments – particularly in low-income countries – are reverting to old-fashioned growth strategies. This often involves export-oriented growth and industrialisation with a...
2 April 2025
When we last explored what was happening to young people across our field sites in 2016, the experience of ‘waithood’ was very evident (see our ROAPE paper for a discussion). This is a period between childhood and adulthood that can extend for years when it is impossible to establish...
31 March 2025
The global race to transition to a low-carbon economy is driving an unprecedented demand for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and copper. These materials are the backbone of technologies like electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. On paper, mining these resources seems...
28 March 2025
Faced with some of the worse debt levels in over a decade, African countries are struggling to find ways to balance their books. Increasing revenue sources from their citizens is an obvious place to look. A good starting point for African countries would be to focus on the tax...
28 March 2025
