The STEPS Centre and its affiliate partner Future Health Systems launched a series of activities that challenge the thinking behind prevailing concepts of “scaling up” in the health sector. Practical approaches for improving access to health care The STEPS Centre and its affiliate partner Future Health Systems are working to challenge the prevailing concepts of...

Video and materials from the launch event at the Royal Society in London are available on the New Manifesto website http://anewmanifesto.org/multimedia/manifesto-launch-video/

"Technologies for Social Inclusion in Latin America." STEPS Seminar with Juan Mariano Fressoli, Researcher, Instituto de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina. Mariano's presentation (Slideshare)

STEPS Centre session at World Water Week, Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm: Liquid Dynamics II: Linking quality and access for pro-poor sustainability.

STEPS Conference 2010: Pathways to Sustainability Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice 23-24 September 2010 at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University. Video from the conference Keynote speeches Day 1: Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre Director - "Pathways to Sustainability: The STEPS Centre's Approach" Day 2: Arun Agrawal, University of...

"Shit and Citizenship: The Political Economy of Sanitation Investment in Brazil." STEPS Water Seminar with Alex Shankland, Institute of Development Studies and Ken Caplan, Director, Building Partnerships for Development. Video: "Shit and Citizenship" presentation (blip.tv, 43min) Alex Shankland and Ken Caplan's slides (Slideshare)

"India and Pakistan’s truculent cooperation: Is 50 years enough?" STEPS Water Seminar with Undala Alam, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast. Undala Alam's slides (Slideshare)

First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Montreux, Switzerland. Contributions from STEPS Centre members: Michael Loevinsohn: New directions in environment-health research: implications for health systems Gerald Bloom: Beyond Scaling Up Blogs from Montreux

"Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World". Lisa Ann Richey, Professor of International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. Video: Brand Aid seminar (blip.tv, 20min)

"State Science and its Discontents: Why India's Second Transgenic Crop Did Not Follow the Path of Bt Cotton" with Ronald J. Herring, Cornell University. Ronald Herring's slides (slideshare)

Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto roundtable event in Paris with STEPS Co-Directors Melissa Leach, Andy Stirling and Manifesto convenor Adrian Ely. Conservatoire national des arts et metiers (venue) Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société (co-hosts) Fondation Sciences Citoyennes (co-hosts) New Manifesto (French translation)

1st International One Health Congress, Melbourne, Australia. Speakers included Paul Forster, STEPS Centre researcher, who also participated in the discussion panel on Science, Policy and Political Action. Paul Forster's blogs from the One Health Congress

"Breaking Waters - Birth of a New Nile State" with Ana Cascão, Stockholm International Water Institute. Video: "Breaking Waters" seminar (YouTube, 45min)

"Limits to Growth" Forum, University of Sussex including "World Café" with Dr Adrian Ely, project convenor, on areas for action from Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto. Part of the University of Sussex Students' Union "Green Week". Full programme Video: Adrian Ely on Limits to Growth

Liquid Dynamics II -STEPS Centre Water and Sanitation Symposium Some for All? Pathways and Politics in Water and Sanitation since New Delhi, 1990 YouTube playlists Symposium presentations (view playlist on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALst1feLfec&list=PL3DFDAAC8A98B97C7 Mini-interviews with Mansoor Ali, Louisa Gosling, Kathy Eales, Jon Lane and Gourisankar Ghosh Keynote and plenary presentations Jon Lane's presentation Gourisankar Ghosh: Some...

International Conference on Global Land Grabbing at Institute of Development Studies. Conference programme

UKCDS workshop: "Exploring the Potential of Complexity Sciences in International Development", Wellcome Trust, London. Melissa Leach's presentation (Slideshare) UKCDS Meeting report (pdf) Ben Ramalingam's blog: reflections on the workshop Duncan Green's blog: So the world is complex - what do we do differently?

International Seminar on Innovation, Sustainability and Development, New Delhi. Hosted by NISTADS in collaboration with CDS-Trivandrum and the STEPS Centre. Funded by UKIERI, the Minstry of Science & Technology (India) and the Ministry of Environment (India). Full programme with links to video

"Green wins or green grabs? Contested pathways to sustainability in Africa" STEPS director Melissa Leach gave the 1st Annual Piers Blaikie Lecture on Environmental Politics. Venue: Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre, UEA. Video: Melissa Leach's lecture Event information (pdf)