The Impact Initiative for International Development Research's blog has published a guide to REF2021 for development researchers.

Increasing attention is being paid to universal development based on the assumption that today’s development challenges are as relevant for the Global North as for the South. Now a timely new IDS Bulletin entitled ‘Has Universal Development Come of Age?’ explores how South and North approaches to development can be interlinked and argues that in order to achieve development for all more needs to be known about the nature of learning from South to North. People and institutions need to share lessons and ideas wherever their origin to address common problems.

Large scale public assemblies and particularly political protests are frequent flashpoints for interactions between police and the public all over the world, during which the police may—lawfully or unlawfully—resort to the use of force. The Centre of Governance & Human Rights (CGHR) is involved in developing a questionnaire to go alongside a training programme to survey police officers about their attitudes.

A group of researchers from University of Cambridge, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Boston University has used machine learning techniques to successfully predict earthquakes. Although their work was performed in a laboratory setting, the experiment closely mimics real-life conditions, and the results could be used to predict the timing of a real earthquake.