Does the food system need new measures of success? Student Karan Shinghal (MSCCDP) explores the metrics needed to transform ...

Frequently, while proposing solutions for India’s vast skilling gap, we tend to miss the forest for the trees. Pradhan Mantri ...

In this blog, IDS student Riya Behl, (who studies MA Poverty & Development ) uses photographs of restroom signs to explore ...

The UN human rights treaties separate rights into categories, misrepresenting the reality of some discrimination cases. Do we need a new structure?

This report details a skills development process for early career researchers associated with ten AHRC-funded networks focusing on disability-inclusive development.

On 25 February 2025, the University of Duhok hosted a conference titled ‘Preserving Cultural Heritage in Kurdistan – Iraq’. This event, organised in collaboration with the Institute of Development ...

Deq (Arabic: دەق) or xal (Kurdish: خاڵ) are the Arabic and Kurdish words for tattoo respectively. Traditional Deq (tattoo) or Xal has long been a part of cultural heritage in Kurdistan and Iraq, it is ...

How did the e-levy become so unpopular, and what will repealing it mean? Over three years, researchers from the IDS-based International Centre for Tax and Development worked with partners in Ghana to ...

With limited assets and multiple constraints to access to land, accumulation by young people in our A1 land reform sites is challenging. This blog looks at the multiple pathways followed, highlighting ...

On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, a country going through a civil war and an already worsening humanitarian crisis under the military junta. The earthquake was the most ...

In this first blog, we introduce the work of the Full Spectrum Coalition evidence and learning group and the challenge it responds to.

Calls for action to acknowledge and address caste power dynamics and prejudice based on caste in Higher Education.