Institute of Development Studies
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| Abbreviation | IDS |
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| Founded | 1966 |
| Type | Research institute |
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Melissa Leach |
| Slogan | Global Knowledge for Global Change |
| Website | www |
The Institute of Development Studies is an international development research institute. IDS acts to influence policy makers through research, by working with partner organisations in developing countries, and communicating with international policy makers. IDS is based at the University of Sussex.
The institute is home to approximately 100 researchers, 70 knowledge services staff, 65 professional staff and about 200 students at any one time. The partnership approach, which means IDS works with around 250 partners internationally, is designed to help enrich the research process, while at the same time building and enhancing the capacity of all the organisations involved.
According to Hivos, IDS is committed to applying academic skills to real-world problems. IDS's purpose is to understand and explain the world, and to try to change it.
IDS was founded in 1966 by economist Dudley Seers who was director from 1967 until 1972. From 1972 to 1981 Sir Richard Jolly was the director of IDS, and later authored A short history of IDS: a personal reflection. John Toye was Director of IDS from 1987-97.
The current director of IDS is Melissa Leach, a social anthropologist and professorial fellow at IDS, who succeeded Lawrence Haddad in 2014. Prior to her appointment she was Director of the STEPS Centre. Leach's recent work has explored the politics of science and knowledge in policy processes linked to environment and health; cultural and political dimensions of vaccine delivery; medical research trials, emerging infectious diseases, and ecology-health linkages.
IDS consists of twelve research clusters or teams which concentrate their research on specific angles of development:
IDS also hosts a range of knowledge services, which aim to ensure that research knowledge can be effectively used in developing countries. IDS hosts BRIDGE, a research centre for gender in development, and Eldis, which aims to provide a platform where up-to-date research can be shared and easily found by development practitioners. Data from Eldis is available from the Open API developed by IDS Knowledge Services. The British Library of Development Studies at IDS contains Europe's largest collection of publications from the global South.
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