The environment in which children grow up can play a central role in their mental development and psychological well-being.

The department offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in development studies. Development Studies is a well-established, interdisciplinary field of research with institutional centers at a ...

Critical gender studies and international development studies are both interdisciplinary, but intellectual agility can ensure they are inclusive sites of knowledge production. To develop intellectual ...

Development Studies examines the social, economic and political processes that shape human well-being across low- and middle-income settings. Emerging after the Second World War, it brings together ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. As more children are raised in a digital world, researchers, doctors, and parents are becoming more ...

The Global South Development studies program, a multidisciplinary social science program, explores the transformation of African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern societies since the 16th ...

A new study in the journal Nature Mental Health explores how a mother’s positive state of mind during pregnancy affects the structure and function of the developing fetal brain by measuring these ...

A Singapore study tracking 328 mother-child pairs has found two distinct pathways linking maternal mental health to child outcomes at age four. The research from A*STAR Institute for Human Development ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham are members of the large-scale long-term national HEALthy Brain and Child Development study consortium. Providing scientists around the world ...

On August 1, 1966, the day psychiatrist Stuart Brown started his assistant professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University ...

You may have read about Harvard’s Grant study, which followed 268 Harvard students for more than 70 years to figure out the keys to health and happiness (hint: the answer is just one word). The media ...

IDS, in partnership with the University of Sussex, has today been ranked first in the world for Development Studies in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, for the tenth consecutive year.