The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) based at the University of Sussex is a global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development.
In all its work, IDS aims to challenge convention and to generate fresh ideas that foster new approaches to development policy and practice.
IDS has six research teams based on the following themes:
- Globalisation
- Participation, Power, and Social Change
- Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction
- Knowledge, Technology and Society
- Governance
- Climate Change
- Gender and Development
- BRICS
IDS also has eight postgraduate programmes and a variety of knowledge services (including id21, Eldis, the British Library for Development Studies, and BRIDGE).
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