Our Work
History
LIDC was established in 2007 with a grant of £3.7m from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and it now has more than 1,500 staff, students and alumni members from its constituent Colleges.
What we do
LIDC develops interdisciplinary research and training programmes to address complex international development challenges. Addressing these challenges effectively often requires working across sectors, such as education and health, or between disciplines, such as sociology and economics. With partner institutions in low and middle income countries, LIDC builds initiatives on such subjects as climate change, HIV/ AIDS, migration, and emerging diseases.
Working across Bloomsbury Colleges
LIDC’s constituent Colleges are Birkbeck, Institute of Education, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Royal Veterinary College, School of Oriental and African Studies, and The School of Pharmacy.
Collectively, these specialist Colleges have enormous depth of development-related research and training in education, health, agriculture, environment, law and business sectors, with disciplinary expertise ranging from clinical and veterinary medicine to economics, anthropology, sociology, and history.
LIDC was established in 2007 with a grant of £3.7m from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and it now has more than 1,500 staff, students and alumni members from its constituent Colleges.
What we do
LIDC develops interdisciplinary research and training programmes to address complex international development challenges. Addressing these challenges effectively often requires working across sectors, such as education and health, or between disciplines, such as sociology and economics. With partner institutions in low and middle income countries, LIDC builds initiatives on such subjects as climate change, HIV/ AIDS, migration, and emerging diseases.
Working across Bloomsbury Colleges
LIDC’s constituent Colleges are Birkbeck, Institute of Education, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Royal Veterinary College, School of Oriental and African Studies, and The School of Pharmacy.
Collectively, these specialist Colleges have enormous depth of development-related research and training in education, health, agriculture, environment, law and business sectors, with disciplinary expertise ranging from clinical and veterinary medicine to economics, anthropology, sociology, and history.
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Vision and mission - New approaches towards international development
LIDC’s vision is a world made more equitable and secure through poverty reduction and the sustainable use of resources.
Our mission is to empower development professionals and programmes with more effective tools and better skills, knowledge and understanding to achieve this vision.
LIDC aims to:
Vision and mission - New approaches towards international development
LIDC’s vision is a world made more equitable and secure through poverty reduction and the sustainable use of resources.
Our mission is to empower development professionals and programmes with more effective tools and better skills, knowledge and understanding to achieve this vision.
LIDC aims to:
- Develop high-quality interdisciplinary research between Bloomsbury Colleges and with their research partners.
- Develop new and innovative teaching programmes to support development goals.
- Inform national and international policies on development through linking research, policy and practice.
- Build capacity in low and middle income countries to address the needs of higher education and research institutions, NGOs and governments.
Partnerships
LIDC benefits from many long-standing partnerships between its constituent Colleges and institutions in developing countries.
LIDC has forged its own partnerships with the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) as well as with other organisations working in international development or interdisciplinary research.
More about our research work
More about our teaching, training and capacity-building work
Download the LIDC brochure
Further resources
More about our research work
More about our teaching, training and capacity-building work
Download the LIDC brochure
Further resources
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