Jim Watson, Professor of Energy Policy at SPRU and director of the Sussex Energy Group as well as co-convenor of the STEPS Centre’s new Energy domain, has been asked to…
JIM WATSON JOINS TELEGRAPH’S AGE OF ENERGY INITIATIVE
BELLAGIO: THE FUTURE OF PHILANTHROPY
By ADRIAN ELY, STEPS Centre researcher I was lucky enough to participate in a fascinating discussion on global governance and regulation, organised as part of the Bellagio Initiative last week….
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: AN INDICATOR OF GREATER SHIFTS
By Hayley MacGregor, STEPS Centre member The UN High-level Summit on Non-communicable Diseases now underway comes at an important moment for the development community. With just over 50 per cent…
REVOLUTIONISING DEVELOPMENT: WHOSE FUTURE COUNTS?
By Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre director I first worked with Robert Chambers as a research assistant when I was little more than an undergraduate myself. In the book ‘Revolutionising Development’,…
‘Putting Africa First: The Making of African Innovation Systems’
Publication of the book, Putting Africa First: The Making of African Innovation Systems (2003)
VIDEO: BRAND AID – SHOPPING WELL TO SAVE THE WORLD
Here’s the video of last week’s seminar on Bono, “aid celebrities” and the RED campaign, by Lisa Ann Richey, Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University. If embedding doesn’t…
MANIFESTO: ILSE OOSTERLAKEN BLOGS
Ilse Oosterlaken of 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology in the Netherlands (and convenor of The Hague roundtable in November) has blogged about the launch of the New Manifesto: Is this…
MANIFESTO LAUNCH: VIDEOS
At the launch of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto, there was a set of fascinating responses to the Manifesto from speakers from around the globe. The videos are now…
MANIFESTO ON FILM
The launch of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto at the Royal Society in London yesterday was captured on video and photograph. The links to the video will appear here…
VIDEO: ADRIAN ELY EXPLAINS THE MANIFESTO PROJECT
Innovation, Development, Sustainability: A New Manifesto is launched to day at the Royal Society in London with 200 deelgates and a packed programme of debate. Here, Adrian Ely, the project’s…