Our blogs on swine flu Ian Scoones on Responding to Pandemic Threats (April 2010) The lessons of swine flu: Ian Scoones, The Guardian, 10 May 2009. A longer version is…
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World Water Day 2012
To mark World Water Day we have published a range of thought-provoking new resources, and we are holding a seminar at IDS in the UK (details below) >>A new edition of the…
Getting hotter: Regulating biotechnology in India
by Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre co-director Biotechnology offers many potentials but also dangers. Regulation is clearly essential. But how, over what and with what measures is less clear. The debate…
Biotech business in Bangalore: a decade of hype and hope?
By Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre co-director A decade ago, biotechnology was being hyped as the next big thing. Building on the successes of the IT sector, BT (biotech) was, it…
WHAT HAPPENED TO BIOTECH IN BANGALORE?
A decade ago, biotechnology was being hyped as the next big thing in Bangalore, India. Building on the successes of the IT sector, BT (biotech) was, it was argued, going…
Media coverage archive 2006-2011
STEPS Centre media coverage 2006-2011 Gates Tells G20 Innovation is the Key to Development, SciDev.net, 4 Nov 2011, STEPS member Adrian Ely comments A new colonial carve up? Ian Scoones…
STUDYING SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND DEVELOPMENT AT IDS
For those considering postgraduate study in England, the uncertainties of taking a year out of ‘normal’ life may be worrying. We’ve asked some of our recent students at the Institute…
STEPS IN PARLIAMENT
The STEPS Centre director Melissa Leach will represent the Centre in two UK Parliament events next week. After the Centre’s submission to the Science and Technology Select Committee’s inquiry in…
WHY STUDY THE MA SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND DEVELOPMENT AT IDS?
What is it like to be an MA student at Institute of Development Studies? A graduate of the 2011 cohort talks about why she moved from New Delhi to take…
Full list of STEPS projects
Animal Disease Re-emerging transmissible transboundary animal diseases: comparing Rift Valley Fever with BSE Avian Flu Avian ‘flu: The politics and policy processes of a global response Biochar Biochar and Anthropogenic…