Deborah Dickerson had no idea what she was getting into when the call came in 2001. Dickerson's daughter had just given birth to a boy, the voice on the other end of the phone said, but the new mother ...

As Jill Green approached her late fifties, she was looking forward to retirement, with a chance to slow down and travel. "Informal kinship carers" are family members who look after children outside of ...

Heather Aldersey receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Universities Canada, and the Mastercard Foundation. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding ...

Ambitious employees in informal leadership roles can get burned out when they don’t receive support from their bosses, according to new research from the School of Management. Recently published in ...

Military spouses reported that they relied more often on people in their social networks for emotional support and assistance than formal sources such as chaplains or counselors, according to a new ...

This blog post from the ARISE Hub – a research consortium of which IDS is a partner – provides reflections on some common misconceptions of informal settlements. Examples from ARISE research show that ...