10 June 2009: "Dangerous Ideas in Development - GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis" The STEPS Centre held an event in Parliament on 10 June 2009 as part of the Institute of Development Studies' Dangerous Ideas in Development debates, organised with the APG Debt, Aid and Trade. The event launched the STEPS Biotechnology Research...

Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath of the United Nations University gave a seminar entitled 'Promoting Knowledge Generation through Intellectual property in Late Development' Listen to the podcast Photos from the seminar (Flickr)

August 2009: STEPS event at World Water Week in Stockholm, with case studies from our peri-urban work in Delhi and Community-Led Total Sanitation. Blog from World Water Week in Stockholm Podcast of STEPS session at World Water Week Presentations from Stockholm Photos from World Water Week STEPS at World Water Week 2009, Stockholm

The first Liquid Dynamics symposium at IDS, Brighton, UK. Symposium report: Liquid Dynamics: Accessing Water and Sanitation in an Uncertain Age - Symposium Report (pdf 485kb) Related research & events Lyla Mehta interview: "Shit happens", British Medical Journal podcast, 17 September 2010. Lyla Mehta is quoted in the British Medical Journal article Toiling for toilets,...

STEPS Centre Symposium: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: Emerging Emerging themes, challenges and opportunities (pdf)  

Challenging new arrangements for health research and care are emerging amidst globalisation, privatisation and the rise of new marketised and pluralized systems. What are the 'new publics' emerging in this context? Who is benefiting and who is losing? A conference co-convened by, and featuring speakers from the STEPS Centre. Melissa Leach's blogs from Kilifi, kenya:...

Low-cost, high production farming in an era of scarcity The STEPS Centre hosted an informal roundtable to discuss the spread and diversification of SRI, the conflicts that have arisen around it, and the social, institutional and political dynamics that underlie them. It brought together Prof. Norman Uphoff of Cornell University, USA, Dr. Willem Stoop from...

UNESCO EPFL Conference on ‘Technologies for Development’. Prof. Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre director, gave a presentation on the New Manifesto project. Presentation: Sustainability, Development, Social Justice: Towards a new politics of innovation (Slideshare)

STEPS/Sussex Energy Group Seminar - Rob Byrne, SPRU. The challenges of low-carbon development: From technology transfer to socio-technical transformation. Rob Byrne's presentation (Slideshare)

Are there any secret millionaires in waste? The framings of real waste systems in Karachi and Dhaka. Modernisation and globalisation of waste systems and their divide with the real systems, with Mansoor Ali, Practical Action. Mansoor Ali's presentation (Slideshare) Description flyer (pdf)

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)

A half-day seminar to reflect on the changing biotech sector in Bangalore over the past decade and to analyse important policy changes. Seminar programme Organised by the Center for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), and the STEPS Centre, together with the Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (ABLE). Sponsored through a grant to IIMB...

A two-day conference challenging companies in India to embrace 'sustainable' business models in order to effectively meet business, social and environmental risks. Conference programme and speaker profiles (pdf) Event details - IIMB website IIMB Facebook page about the conference Presentations from the conference (Scribd) More about the conference Panel discussions and keynote speeches will make...

Exploring the tools of social network analysis for competence building and inclusion in emerging clusters: Looking at Peruvian mangos and Colombian palm oil By Matias Ramirez, Senior Lecturer in Management at SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, Business and Policy makers in many developing countries have been increasingly drawn to the notion that sustained...

This event will launch a new copy of the IDS Bulletin on Water and Sanitation, 'Some for All? Pathways and Politics Since New Delhi in 1990'. We will host a debate on the pathways taken (or not taken) since the New Delhi statement at the end of the UN Water Decade in 1990. Looking back...

IDS Seminar, Thursday 22 March, 13.00-14.30, IDS Convening Space Some for all? Politics and pathways in water and sanitation  Taking place on World Water Day, this seminar will launch the new IDS Bulletin, 'Some for All?' Politics and pathways in water and sanitation. Discussion will examine why progress towards providing safe water and improved sanitation since the original...

Come and help celebrate the launch of our Pathways to Sustainability book series, published by Routledge/Earthscan. This event is free and open to all - we especially hope to welcome people attending the Planet Under Pressure conference next door. Drinks and nibbles will be provided. The venue is the Connaught Room of the Ramada Docklands Hotel,...