On the eve of the launch of our new report Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto, project’s convenor, Adrian Ely, and our colleague Kevin Urama, executive director of the African…
WE MUST NURTURE A NEW INNOVATION POLITICS
MANIFESTO: THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION
At events around the world over the past two years as part of our Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project, the STEPS Centre has asked delegates one important question,…
THE LIMITS OF SOUND SCIENCE: PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS, ACCOUNTABILITY AND FALL OUT AT THE FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY
By John Thompson and Erik Millstone Co-Convenors, Food and Agriculture Domain, The STEPS Centre Brian Wynne, Professor of Science Studies at CSEC and at the ESRC Centre for Economic and…
BEYOND SCALING UP WORKSHOP
By Julia Day We have a packed room here at the Institute of Development Studies for the first day of the Beyond Scaling Up workshop organised by the STEPS Centre…
NEW UK GOVERNMENT, NEW DEVELOPMENT POLICY?
Following the appointment of Andrew Mitchell MP as Secretary of State for International Development, IDS Director Professor Lawrence Haddad shares his views on what the future holds for DFID and…
COP15: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
A month after the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and the disappointment and frustration that many participants and observers around the world felt is still raw. Our colleague Fatema Rajabali…
COP 15: ANGRY PROTESTS AND DUBIOUS SCIENCE
By Shoumojit Kanjilal, IDS student When I woke up early and bleary eyed in Copenhagen on Wednesday the heavy snowfall made global warming seem very far away. With limited access…
HOLDING OUT FOR HOPE: REPORT FROM COP15
By Shoumojit Kanjilal, IDS student Arriving into Copenhagen earlier this week by plane felt like a poor way to begin my time at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Unfortunately…
REFLECTIONS FROM KILIFI: ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
By Melissa Leach The Kilifi conference on the publics of public health is now complete, after two more intense days. Two dimensions of the contemporary world of public health have…
NEW PUBLIC HEALTH AGENDAS, NEW PUBLICS: REFLECTIONS FROM KILIFI
By Melissa Leach We are on the Kenyan coast, not far from Kilifi town and the site of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), at a conference which the STEPS…