This year is the United Nations International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. This is an important moment to celebrate the role of pastoralists across the world, recognising their unique ...

Make 2026 your year to join IDS and learn collaboratively with researchers and activists at the forefront of international development. IDS, with the University of Sussex, are ranked first in the ...

This paper provides a synthesis of five case studies on the relationship between sexuality and law. These case studies were undertaken as part of the Sexuality, Poverty and Law theme of the ...

This paper investigates the rise of a policy community in China’s renewable energy sectors. After a decade of spectacular expansion of wind and solar energy industries, a PC that comprises both ...

This CDI Practice Paper makes the case for ‘bricolage’ in complexity-aware and qualitative evaluation methods. It provides a framework based on a review of 33 methods to support evaluators to be more ...

The UK Data Protection Act 2018 requires all organisations within the EU who process Personal Data to be transparent on how, why and what data is captured, stored and processed; the lawful basis for ...

As every aspect of life – from job seeking to health care – moves online, digital connectivity is a daily necessity, not a luxury. Against the backdrop of the UK’s worst cost of living crisis in 40 ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

Bhagavati Adhikari, Executive Director of Nepal Mahila Ekata Samaj (NMES), at a demonstration. NMES is one of the 16 women’s struggles working in collaboration with the SuPWR project, which features ...

Ian Scoones is a professor in the Resource Politics and Environmental Change cluster. He was co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex (2006-21) and the principal investigator of the ERC Advanced ...

Resilience is becoming influential in development and vulnerability reduction sectors such as social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Policy makers, donors and ...

Investigating lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and how community engagement can be utilised by local government in the UK, France and USA to improve response to future pandemic outbreak. The ...