Media Centre
Helping media professionals
The STEPS Media Centre is designed to help media professionals access the latest news and resources from the STEPS Centre as quickly and easily as possible. Here you will find press releases, background briefings, and resources to help with your research and stories. If you can’t find what you need, please get in touch with the press office in one of the following ways:
Contact us:
Julia Day, communications officer
Tel +44 (0)1273 876814 / M: 07974 209148
Skype juliaday1
Email j.day@ids.ac.uk
Out of hours 07974 209148
Latest press releases and press packs
Towards a Green Revolution in Africa press pack ( 30 April 2008)
- Kofi Annan calls for a "uniquely African Green revolution" to address food crisis 30 April 2008
- "Forging a Uniquely African Green Revolution” Address by Mr Kofi A. Annan, Chairman of AGRA Salzburg Global Seminars Austria (pdf 117kb) 30 April 2008
- Transcript of Kofi Annan and panellists press conference
More information on this event
Photos available, contact: j.day@ ids.ac.uk
African 'Livestock Revolution' press pack (April 2008)
- Press release: African farmers missing out on the global livestock revolution
- Press release: High-level backing for African farmers' participation in global 'livestock revolution'
- Opening speech: How can Africa benefit from the livestock revolution? Written by Dr Babagana Ahmadu, Director for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission, Ethiopia
Presented by Martin Bwalya NEPAD, South Africa - Biographies of researchers
- Fast Facts
- Background overview
More information on this project
- New PhD places for 2008 30 Jan 2008
- Douglas Alexander must ensure science and technology work for the poor. 28 June 2007
- Poverty and environment millions could be wasted: STEPS Centre launch, 25 June 2007
- Paid for PhD places at new global research centre
- New for 2007: MA in science, society and development
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Find an expert
STEPS members are world-class experts in the many social and natural science fields around our issues of social, environmental and technological development, and are very experienced in working with print, broadcast and online media.
From food and agriculture, water and sanitation to health and disease, we have engineers, ecologists, anthropologists to economists, physicians, physicists and more who are happy to provide comment and analysis.
Have a look at members profiles to see whose areas of expertise match what you need or contact communications officer Julia Day on +44 (0)1273 876814 or 07974 209148 or j.day@ids.ac.uk, who will help you find an expert as quickly as possible.
Images, video, audio and more
From a climate change project in Kenya to urbanisation in India, STEPS Centre offers images, audio and video to accompany reports and to help accurately reflect our work around the world. We have an archive of quality still images taken by our own researchers during their work. This material is for editorial use only.
To request an image or other material (for editorial use only) email the media centre or call us on +44 (0)1273 876814.
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Briefing papers and reports
Our Research Briefings offer easily-digestible summaries of our research. They are available to download from our publications page
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STEPS in the news
Find out what the media have been saying about STEPS and what STEPS has been saying in the media
Coverage from Towards a Green Revolution in Africa conference, Salzburg, April 08
- BBC World Service (1)
- BBC World Service (2)
- International Herald Tribune
- New Agriculturalist
- Reuters Africa
- The Guardian
- AllAfrica.com (1)
- AllAfrica.com (2)
- AllAfrica.com (3)
- New Scientist
- The Guardian world news podcast, UK: Ian Scoones speaks about the food crisis
Coverage from Veterinary Science, Transboundary Animal Disease and Market Access workshop, Pretoria, South Africa, April 08
- IRIN, Africa: Beefing up for a Revolution
- The Herald, Zimbabwe: Beef Industry Under the Spotlight
- New Era, Namibia: VCF Hampers Market Access
- Sunday News, Zimbabwe: Commodity trade to improve beef exports
- Sunday News Zimbabwe: African farmers missing out on global boom
- Landbou Weekblad, South Africa: Afrika uit vleisrevolusie geboelie?
- Landbou Weekblad, South Africa: Oorgrens dieresiektes bekyk
- New Agriculturist, UK: 'My Perspective' by Dr Babagana Ahmadu
- Developments magazine, UK: What's the Beef?
- Veterinary Times, UK: Taking Steps to Fairer Trade page 1 / page 2 / page 3
- AllAfrica.com
- Reuters Alertnet
- Plus coverage in The Citizen, South Africa; Farmer's Weekly, South Africa; Financial Mail, South Africa
General STEPS Centre coverage
- Lunch with The Lancet (56kb). Melissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, in conversation with the Lancet's Priya Shetty.
Vol 371, June 21 2008 - Melissa Leach writes on haemorrhagic fevers for Wellcome History (pdf 70kb) May 2008
- Building genuine pathways to a more secure future
Melissa Leach writes for the ESRC's The Edge magazine, Spring 2008, Issue 27 - Water, the ethics of efficiency Lyla Mehta writes for Food Ethics magazine about whether our food is too thirsty. Spring 2008 (pdf 2MB)
- Hard to Swallow: Melissa Leach talks to New Scientist about her work on vaccine anxeties
- New Agriculturist: Farmer First Revisited Podcast
- New Agriculturist: Programme for African radio stations (Farmer First Revisited is fourth item)
- Can science sustain our world? BBC Radio 4's Material World asks STEPS co-director Andy Stirling and three other scientists about the role of science in sustaining and preserving Earth (3.01.08).
Accomodating dissent. Melissa Leach writes for Nature on vaccination (pdf 77kb) - Melissa Leach talks about vaccination dissent on the Nature podcast
- Lagging behind: Linda Waldman writes for the Guardian on the House of Lords asbestos-related disease ruling
- Gerry Bloom interviewed in Real Health News about his work in China (pdf 1,380kb)
- Foot & mouth: Erik Millstone writes for the Guardian
- Erik Millstone talks about biotechnology crops and small farmers to CNN's Principal Voices
- Podcast: Listen to Melissa Leach talking to the Guardian Weekly podcast about the STEPS Centre's approach to development. Download the podcast from the Guardian Weekly website or listen to the podcast direct (MP3 28.7MB)
- Village Voice: The Guardian interviews Melissa Leach about putting local knowledge first, her passion for anthropology and the STEPS Centre.
- Path-finder: Andy Stirling, co-director of the STEPS Centre, interviewed in The Engineer magazine
- Steps towards better development - Mark Tran writes about the launch of the STEPS Centre on Education Guardian online
- Science & development centre launched - ResearchResearch
- Making big ideas possible - Ian Scoones talks to CNN.com's Principal Voices about grassroots technology
- Making Technology Work for the Poor - Melissa Leach speaks to the Guardian
- First class news - the Guardian covers STEPS PhD courses
- Rattling the food chain: STEPS member Erik Millstone interviewed about taking on the agri-food industry
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