STEPS New Manifesto Seminar: Joanna Chataway
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project seminar Joanna Chataway, Co-Director of the ESRC Innogen Research Centre, Development Policy and Practice, Open University gave a seminar entitled ‘Below the Radar’: A user and market driven account of disruptive (and constructive) innovation for low income users. View Joanna Chataway's presentation (on Slideshare) Photos from the seminar...
Dangerous Ideas in Development: GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis
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...
STEPS New Manifesto Seminar: Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath
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)
STEPS at World Water Week
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
STEPS Water Symposium: Liquid Dynamics I
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 2009
STEPS Centre Symposium: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: Emerging Emerging themes, challenges and opportunities (pdf)
The Publics of Public Health Conference
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:...
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) workshop
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’
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
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)