JIM WATSON JOINS TELEGRAPH’S AGE OF ENERGY INITIATIVE

Jim Watson, Professor of Energy Policy at SPRU and director of the Sussex Energy Group as well as co-convenor of the STEPS Centre’s new Energy domain, has been asked to…

BELLAGIO: THE FUTURE OF PHILANTHROPY

By ADRIAN ELY, STEPS Centre researcher I was lucky enough to participate in a fascinating discussion on global governance and regulation, organised as part of the Bellagio Initiative last week….

LAND GRABS: CALL FOR NEW GRANT APPLICATIONS

By Julia Day, STEPS Centre Communications Manager Across the world, especially in the global South, there has been a dramatic rise in ‘land grabs’ – cross-border, transnational corporation-driven and, in…

WE’RE IN THE IDS ANNUAL REPORT

By Nathan Oxley, STEPS Communications Assistant The STEPS Centre is mentioned twice in the beautifully interactive Annual Report of the Institute of Development Studies. The Knowledge, Technology and Society section…

NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: AN INDICATOR OF GREATER SHIFTS

By Hayley MacGregor, STEPS Centre member The UN High-level Summit on Non-communicable Diseases now underway comes at an important moment for the development community. With just over 50 per cent…

TOP 10 POSTS OF ALL TIME

I’ve been looking at the most-viewed posts on the blog since we started in January 2007 (with a post on pro-poor rice farming). It’s interesting to see how the blog’s…

HAVE YOUR SAY: DELHI SEMINAR ON INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

At last month’s seminar on Innovation, Sustainability and Development at NISTADS, participants reflected on the state of innovation in various fields – in food and agriculture, health, ICTs, low carbon…

VIRUS AND BEAST: HOW ONE WORD CHANGES EVERYTHING

How does a single word affect the way we deal with a problem? Last night’s edition of All In The Mind on BBC Radio 4 offered a striking example. Researchers…

INDIA SEMINAR: INNOVATION, IDEAS & INSPIRATION

by Adrian Ely, Manifesto project convenor Last week, STEPS participated in a 3-day seminar on “Innovation, Sustainability and Development” in Delhi, India. It was hosted by the National Institute of…