Seminar: Adrian Smith on the Lucas Plan
Room G22, SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Brighton'Recalling the Lucas Plan: what can an old movement for socially useful production tell us about democratising technology today?' Adrian Smith, STEPS Centre/SPRU 5 February 2014 1pm, room G22, SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex Adrian Smith will be presenting his work on the Lucas Aerospace Shop Stewards Alternative Corporate Plan, also known as the...
Grassroots Innovation Movements workshop, Delhi
Unnamed Venue Delhi, IndiaThis workshop will bring together researchers, activists and policy-makers to learn from one another about grassroots innovation movements. The workshop is organised by Dinesh Abrol at Centre for Studies in Science Policy at Jawaharlal Nehru University in colaboration with Adrian Smith, Elisa Arond, and Mariano Fressoli (all from the project, Grassroots Innovation: Historical and Comparative...
STEPS-JNU Symposium: Exploring Pathways to Sustainability
Our 2014 Annual Symposium, ‘Exploring pathways to sustainability’, is being co-organised with the Centre for Studies in Science Policy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and will be held on 10-11 February at JNU. The 2014 Annual Symposium will focus on the theme of ‘pathways to sustainability’. Our participants will consider how particular mainstream, development interventions emerge...
Integrating Impact Planning into Research Projects: Reflections from the STEPS Centre
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS/CDI Seminar Adrian Ely, Head of Impact and Engagement, STEPS Centre and Nathan Oxley, Communications Officer, STEPS Centre Researchers, along with development programmes, are increasingly called on to demonstrate the ‘impact’ of their research. There are many different ways to frame, define and conceptualise impact, and many possible responses to it. If impact is to...
Seminar: Kevin Urama, African Technology Policy Studies Network
Global Studies Resource Centre Arts C175, University of Sussex, United KingdomSussex Africa Centre/Centre for Global Political Economy/STEPS Centre Seminar Professor Kevin Urama, African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) on 'Science, technology and innovation for development’ Professor Kevin Urama, B. Agric (First Class Honours); MSc (Nig.); MPhil (Distinction, Cambridge); Ph.D. (Cambridge) is an Environmental and Ecological Economist developing trans-disciplinary and integrated tools for sustainable management of social,...
Seminar: Optimism, capitalism and cities of the future
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomReluctant Optimism - What Worlds will Business Need to be Successful in the Future? 1-2.30 Tuesday 25 February 2014 IDS Convening Space STEPS Seminar: Mick Blowfield and Leo Johnson on reluctant optimism and future cities by Stepscentre on Mixcloud Michael Blowfield Professor Corporate Responsibility, Wolverhampton; Senior Visiting Research Associate, Oxford; Fellow, London Business School Leo...
STEPS Seminar: Changing political climates: Chinese environmental journalism and sustainable development
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSam Geall, Research Fellow SPRU and executive editor Chinadialogue China’s current leadership recently made “Beautiful China” and “Ecological Civilization” two of its most prominent official slogans and enshrined sustainable development as core state policy, but what are the dynamics of this drive for “low-carbon development” and how are those dynamics framed? Exploring how Chinese environmental...
IDS Rising Powers & Rio+ Centre High-Level Round-Table: BRICS & the Green Transformation: Mutual Learning for Sustainability
Hotel Sheraton, Leblon Av Niemeyer, 121 - Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilSpeakers will debate the dynamics and drivers for low-carbon development policies in Brazil, India and China, and the implications for Africa. Adrian Ely, Deputy Director and Head of Impact and Engagement, STEPS Centre, is taking part in this event and wrote a blogpost to coincide: More than just a “clean energy race”? BRICS invesment and...
STEPS Seminar: In the Eye of a Cyclone: The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change in the Sundarban Delta
Convening Space Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomDr Debojyoti Das, ERC Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London Tropical Cyclones are a yearly event in the Bay of Bengal coastal seaboard. The deadliest cyclones in the world have formed here, including the 1970 Bhola super cyclone, which killed 500,000 people. The misery and destruction caused by...
STEPS Seminar: Ted Schrecker on Labour arbitrage, financial fallout, expulsions
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomLabour arbitrage, financial fallout, expulsions: Exploring the mechanics of the inequality machine Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy, Durham University STEPS Seminar: Ted Schrecker on Labour arbitrage, financial fallout, expulsions by Stepscentre on Mixcloud “The inequality machine is reshaping the planet”, in the words of the editor of Le Monde Diplomatique. In this presentation...