IDS Research: Recent submissions
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Theory and Practice in China’s Approaches to Multilateralism and Critical Reflections on the Western ‘Rules-Based International Order’
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10-26)China is the subject of Western criticism for its supposed disregard of the rules-based international order. Such a charge implies that China is unilateralist. The aim in this study is to explain how China does in fact ... -
Surveillance Law in Africa: a Review of Six Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10)This review provides the first comparative analysis of African legal surveillance frameworks. The study identifies nine core principles derived from existing guidelines as an analytical framework to identify opportunities ... -
Africa Groundwater Atlas Home
(Wikipedia, 2019)The Africa Groundwater Atlas is an online resource that provides an introduction to the groundwater resources of 52 African countries, and a gateway to further information. It was developed through the Unlocking the Potential ... -
Money Flows: What Is Holding Back Investment In Agroecological Research For Africa?
(Biovision, 2020)The rapidly evolving threats to food and farming systems — from climate shocks to pest stresses — make it more crucial than ever to ensure a continuous flow of knowledge and innovation. Agricultural research for development ... -
IDS Annual Review 2020-21
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10-08)This has been an extraordinary year for the Institute. The Covid-19 pandemic and its health, social, economic and political impacts have created massive disruptions, transforming how people live and organisations function ... -
An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10)Between 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international data set on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes ... -
Memorialab: Dialogue, Memory and Social Healing in the Basque Country: A Methodological Note
(Sage Publishing, 2021-09-06)This SAGE Handbook presents contemporary, cutting-edge approaches to participatory research and inquiry. It has been designed for the community of researchers, professionals and activists engaged in interventions and action ... -
What Does it Mean to Take a “Leave No One Behind” Approach to Community Engagement and Involvement in Global Health Research?
(NIHR, 2021-09)In this last publication for the 2020-2021 IDS/NIHR Community Engagement and Involvement learning series, we discuss what it means to take a CEI approach that prioritises ‘leaving no one behind’. As with other resources ... -
Ethical Dimensions of Community Engagement and Involvement in Global Health Research
(NIHR, 2021-07)A practical entry point is to start with the question of space – e.g the physical sites or virtual platforms where community engagement will take place. How will you or your team identify potential spaces and sites ... -
Empowering Meaningful Community Engagement and Involvement in Global Health Research: Critical Reflections and Guiding Questions
(NIHR, 2021-04)When the first NIHR Resource Guide on Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) was published in 2019, the world was as yet untransformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it is even clearer that global health goals are ... -
Student Wellbeing in Contexts of Protracted Violent Conflict
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-09-14)In contexts of protracted violent conflict, school environments play a key role in children’s psychological, social, and emotional wellbeing. Research by the REALISE education project in the Democratic Republic of the ... -
Demanding Power: Do Protests Empower Citizens to Hold Governments Accountable over Energy?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-09)Energy protests are becoming increasingly common and significant around the world. While in the global North concerns tend to centre around climate issues, in the global South the concerns are more often with affordable ... -
How to Co-produce Transdisciplinary and Plural Knowledge to Solve Complex Humanitarian Problems? An Illustration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(Humanitarian Alternatives, 2021-07-20)Delving deeper, Camille Maubert and Jeremy Allouche shine a light on what the tensions and dilemmas might be. In addition to those inherent to the conflict of cultures between aid actors and researchers, there are the ... -
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Improving Access to Education for Marginalised Girls in Conflict Areas
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-16)A high proportion of out-of-school children across the world live in conflict-affected contexts. To remove barriers to education for marginalised girls in those contexts, a key challenge is to understand the multiple and ... -
Demanding Power: Struggles over Fuel Access in Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-13)Why do some fuel protests in Nigeria lead to a response from government, but others are barely noticed? What are the politics behind government response and who are the winners and losers? Using a multi-method approach, ... -
The Need and Desire for Inclusive Universities: A Perspective from Development Studies
(Cogitatio, 2021-07-21)In recent times there has been sustained momentum to address inequalities within university faculties and improve the diversity of students. Also, in response to historical and current social injustices, universities have ... -
The Right to Protection of Forcibly Displaced Persons During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-06)The unprecedented shutdown of borders and restrictions on migration in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have put the core principles of refugee protection to test and resulted in the erosion of the right to asylum and ... -
A ‘Right to Nutrition’ in Zambia: Linking Rhetoric, Law and Practice
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08)Zambians in all walks of life are affected by malnutrition, and working through human rights is one key way to address this injustice. Based on research aiming to understand how a ‘right to nutrition’ is perceived ... -
Wicked Solutions: SDGs, Research Design and the “Unfinishedness” of Sustainability
(SocArXiv Papers, 2020-07-04)The appearance of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) marked the first time a global body has attempted to manage the planet’s future in its entirety, linking together urgent, overlapping and contradictory ...