An “Educational” Town Hall Meeting

© World Bank Following our Education Systems Town Hall one of our live stream viewers, Nisma Elias, a Program Associate at the Results for Development Institute, wrote this...

Education Systems Town Hall Presentations

These are the videos and powerpoint slide packs of each of the presentations at the Education Systems Town Hall event held on 23 January 2014. The order of presentations...

Sunny skies ahead for education research

Image: DFID For videos and reports of the event this is based on please visit the event coverage. On Thursday 23 January I had the pleasure of speaking at the UKCDS event on...

Human migration as climate adaptation

What  links climate change and migration? How can we measure the number of environmental refugees both now and in the future? How can we respond to this growing issue when...

New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition was launched in 2012 under the US G8 Presidency. It is a joint initiative between African leaders, the private sector and...

Agenda for Town Hall for funders & researchers

Workshop Agenda: Development, Science & Complexity

Please find an agenda for the workshop taking place at UKCDS on 10th February 2014 on Development, Science, and Complexity: What new scientific thinking means for policy and...

Food Futures

Bangladesh, © Ned Garnett – NERC Last week, I attended a two day conference entitled ‘Food Futures: Towards Sustainable Production and Consumption’ which took place...

EU and Africa: science, technology and innovation

I recently attended the EU-Africa high level policy dialogue (HLPD) on science, technology and innovation in Brussels on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation...

Good Enough Disaster Risk Assessment Workshop

The UK Science and Innovation Network, in collaboration with the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS), the Research Councils UK Risk Research Champion and La...