Global Development and Social Justice Research programme
As a leader in the field of development studies, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) finds responses to today’s global problems. Issues such as poverty, inequality, migration, conflict and ecology are important in the ISS research agenda.
Our Global Development and Social Justice research programme takes a critical approach to policy responses that are formulated to social, economic and political issues. The critical attitude is the result of a deeply felt need to analyse the way in which power differences among groups of people result in policies and practices that are highly beneficial to the powerful and detrimental to the powerless.
Research highlights
Congratulations to Dr Rafael Rosa Cedro
With the successful defence of his PhD thesis looking at economic development in Brazil
ISS research projects
Ongoing projects exploring four main themes
Meet our researchers
Visit the profile pages of ISS faculty and PhD researchers
Our research
Research themes, projects and publications
Collaborations
Networks, conferences and other research collaborations
Our researchers
Professors. academics and PhD researchers
Links to teaching
ISS PhD, MA and online programmes
Research values
ISS is committed to a more just social order at a global scale. We combine rigorous academic research with high societal relevance that has the potential to drive action and contribute to change:
