Two STEPS Centre members have been included for the second year running in the Highly Cited Researchers List produced by the analytics company Clarivate. Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the…
STEPS members featured in global list of highly cited researchers
TAPESTRY events at the COP26 conference
The TAPESTRY project is hosting three side events at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, November 2021. Transforming Deserts, Deltas and Deconstructing Cities 7 November at 8:30-9:30 am South Asian Regional…
Transformations Conference 2021: STEPS Methods Sessions
The upcoming annual Transformations Conference will feature a talks by STEPS colleagues reflecting on questions of methods and methodology. These talks will form part of the Centre’s theme for 2021:…
Animated explainer: What are Pathways to Sustainability?
How should people address problems like climate change, environmental destruction, poverty and injustice? With many possible ways to respond, whose voices and ideas will shape the pathways that are chosen?…
STEPS members recognised in global list of ‘highly cited’ researchers
Members of the ESRC STEPS Centre based at the Institute of Development Studies and University of Sussex have been included in the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List, compiled by Clarivate…
IDS Bulletin: Fifty Years of Research on Pastoralism and Development
Pastoralism is a way of life for millions of people around the world, farming livestock in wide geographical areas and moving with their herds. However, it can often been a…
Andy Stirling on Covid-19, modernity and control: video
STEPS co-director Andy Stirling gave an online talk on 15 May 2020 exploring ideas about modernity and the ‘futilities of control’, in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The talk…
Podcast: The Social Dynamics of Pandemics
The global pandemic Covid-19 is impacting people in many and varied ways. The effects on all our lives are immense and diverse, from rural and urban communities, young and old,…
IDS podcast: The Politics of Green Transformations
In this month’s edition of the Institute of Development Studies podcast, Between the Lines, IDS Director Melissa Leach, STEPS co-director Ian Scoones and Sussex professor Peter Newell discuss their co-edited…
STEPS Uncertainty Podcast
The STEPS Uncertainty Podcast is a series of four conversations recorded with participants after our symposium in July 2019, available as a podcast to stream or download. The symposium, The…