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Photo by Jaya Dharmarajan in Gilly's Restobar, Bangalore (via unRestroom)
Making Spaces Inclusive: What Restroom Signs Reveal

Current student Riya Behl uses photographs of restroom signs to explore inclusivity and accessibility through an intersectional lens More...

Man sweeping toner out of printer cartridge in Guiyu, China. (2005, December 22). Photo by Basel Act
Making Sense of the Circular Economy in an Unequal World

Emilio Bertrand Bunge Gonzalez (MA Development Studies) discusses circular economies and their role in just transitions in the Global South. More...

Flickr - DVIDSHUB - Giant standing Buddhas of Bamiyan still cast shadows
Deadly childbirths: the critical importance of investing in maternal healthcare in Afghanistan

IDS alumna Tanjila Mazumder Drishti writes about the dire state of care for pregnant women in Afghanistan. More...
Alumni Newsletter - February 2025

Read the February 2025 edition of our alumni newsletter! More...

United Nations Headquarters, Geneva, by John Samuel, via Wikimedia Commons
Woman or Indigenous? How the UN human rights treaties simplify discrimination

The UN human rights treaties separate rights into categories, misrepresenting the reality of some cases of discrimination. Sofie Juul Nielsen (MAGaD) … More...

Students in a primary school in Maharashtra, India (Ganesh Dhamodkar from Nagpur (via Wiki Commons)
Bringing India’s skilling and education closer

Student Ayush Punia writes about how an integrated “Edu-Skills” model represents a whole which is greater than the sum of its individual parts. More...

A farmer testing soil (USDA NRCS South Dakota, Public domain, via Wikimedia Common)
What gets measured gets done: The change of metrics needed for our food system

Does the food system need new measures of success? Student Karan Shinghal (MSCCDP) explores the metrics needed to transform our food systems. More...

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Professional Development and Learning

IDS Short Courses

Build your skills with a range of short courses on critical development issues. IDS Alumni can apply for a bursary discount of 20%.

IDS Short Courses

Build your skills with a range of short courses on critical development issues. IDS Alumni can apply for a bursary discount of 20%.
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