Researcher's Profile - Ian Scoones

Ian Scoones

Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 9RE
Tel: 01273 606261
Email: i.scoones@ids.ac.uk

Biography

Ian Scoones is Professorial Fellow with the Knowledge, Technology and Society (STEPS) team at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on the intersection between issues of rural livelihoods and institutional and policy change, particularly issues surrounding the politics of knowledge. Much of his work has been in southern and east Africa.

Projects

Project - ‘ Global engagements and global assessments: the case of the International Assessment for Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)– part of 'Local-Global Citizenship Engagements' Research Programme

Summary - The aim of this research is to evaluate and learn lessons from the IASSTD assessment process, focusing in on African engagements, and, more broadly, the role of ‘civil society’.

Project Proposal

Latest Publications

Scoones, I.,(2006), Science, Agriculture and the Politics of Policy: the case of biotechnology in India. Delhi: Orient Longman

Scoones, I., Leach, M. and Wynne, B. (eds), (2005) Science and Citizens: Globalisation and the Challenge of Engagement, London: Zed Press

Scoones, I., (2003) Understanding Environmental Policy Processes. Cases from Africa (with James Keeley, London: Earthscan

Scoones, I., (2005) Contentious politics, contentious knowledge: Mobilising against genetically-modified crops in India, South Africa and Brazil, IDS Working Paper 256, Brighton: IDS