Institute of Development Studies

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Institute of Development Studies

Type	Research institute
Established	1966; 58 years ago (1966)
Director	Melissa Leach
Location	Library Road, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex BN1 9RE United Kingdom
Nickname	IDS
Affiliations	University of Sussex
Website	ids.ac.uk

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a research and learning organisation affiliated with the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, and based on its campus in Falmer, East Sussex. It delivers research and teaching in the area of development studies.

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". Later directors included Mike Faber (1982–87), John Toye (1987 to 1997) and Keith Bezanson (1997–2004) and Lawrence Haddad (2004–2014).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.^[1] 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.^[2]