The year our master’s students spend at IDS is challenging, interesting, varied and fun… We are so grateful for the hardworking Student Reps and Union Councillors, who help ensure their fellow students have the best experience possible. As the final term rumbles to a close we wanted to...
21 August 2024
Research undertaken on citizen-state relations in Bangladesh during and after Covid-19 could not have foreseen the dramatic change that led to the fall of Bangladesh’s leader last month, but it provides valuable insights and lessons for the new government in the months...
20 August 2024
On Thursday 14 August, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) for the second time. A statement released on behalf of the WHO Director General pointed to a concerning increase in cases in recent months of mpox Clade 1,...
19 August 2024
The right-wing, anti-immigrant riots that spread across the UK in early August have revealed how years of austerity and normalisation of anti-migration rhetoric can escalate, fuelled by misinformation on social media. The crowds that turned out in counter protests, standing against racism,...
19 August 2024
Time to catch up on some of the blogs that you missed! Below are listed the top 15 blogs by views this year. Lots of themes to explore – on land, agriculture, drought and much more. The year started with a short series on financing agriculture, based on recent research across our study areas....
19 August 2024
Undoing the damage of the past 15 years in Bangladesh will be a challenge but its Gen Z student population stand ready and engaged to help build a different kind of politics, and future, for the country of over 170 million people. ‘Second independence’ is how Bangladeshis have...
15 August 2024
What does a progressive realist foreign policy, as set out by David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, mean for UK engagement with China on the pressing global challenges facing the world? This is a critical question as David Lammy prepares a visit to China within his first 100 days as Foreign...
15 August 2024
We are delighted to announce that MA Governance, Development & Public Policy student Abhishek Saini has been awarded the prestigious Elevate grant of £4,000 by the University of Sussex for his volunteering reward platform VolCard. Here Abhishek gives his advice for other students thinking of...
12 August 2024
This is the fourth blog in our series on ‘Lessons on using Contribution analysis for Impact Evaluation’. This blog will describe how we used the concept of causal hotspots as a way to zoom in, unpack, and make the hard choices about where producing evidence brings the most value to build an...
8 August 2024
"It is important for all taxpayers, including the ultra-high-net-worth individuals, to contribute their fair share in taxes," said the finance ministers and central bankers in a joint statement marking the conclusion of two days of meeting in Brazil. Brazil, which this year is presiding over...
5 August 2024
Covid-19 reminded the world of the interconnectedness of human and animal health. When a wild animal in a Chinese seafood market became suspect number one in the search for the source of the virus behind the pandemic, it was a wake-up call to many working in public health. Understanding the...
5 August 2024
I was pointed to an intriguing World Bank report recently–Creating markets in Zimbabwe: Mobilizing the private sector in support of economic transformation – that came out earlier this year. It is striking in a number of ways. Not only is it rather positive about the private sector,...
5 August 2024
