IDEMS At Work
Complex global grand challenges.
Groundbreaking digital innovation.
We are PhD mathematical scientists, social scientists, and applied technologists. We partner in transdisciplinary collaborations with innovative researchers from leading universities and humanitarian organisations – and with local communities around the world – to develop pioneering technology that works in and across low-resource and underserved communities and contexts.
The future of
social impact
Our transdisciplinary, research-based Collaboratories are multiyear collaborations with expert researchers and community organisations around the world. We work together to responsibly conceive, develop and scale digital interventions to global challenges.
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COLLABORATORY IMPACT INNOVATION
Evidence-based digital interventions
We’re at the frontier of impact innovation: Our digital interventions deliver measurable benefit to underserved communities and adaptively, affordably scale across global social, economic and environmental complexity for measurable, sustainable impact.
AGROECOLOGY
Farmer-owned tech, farmer-led research, farmer-serving data
On-the-ground work with farmers and farmer federations is leading to more sustainable food systems managed by local communities
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CLIMATE
Making sense of historical climate data to help predict the future
Our work with the World Meteorological Organization and regional African Met Services Offices is turning decades of historical climate data into actionable projections about climate change and its effects on local weather.
Learn more about climate innovation
PUBLIC HEALTH
Scaling parenting support to prevent child sexual abuse, exploitation and violence
Our multiyear collaboration with the University of Oxford’s Global Parenting Initiative and UNICEF- supported Parenting for Lifelong Health is leading to proven digital interventions that are reducing violence against children and intimate partner violence, as well as improving parenting, mental health, and well-being.
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EDUCATION
Giving meaningful maths feedback to improve student learning
IDEMS is the impact commercialization partner to open-source mathematics assessment platform STACK. Our team is helping build and expand STACK’s product and question banks, and leading the integration of STACK into university-level teaching and learning in Europe and Africa. We’re currently piloting STACK in the US with Caltech.
Learn how STACK is improving maths education
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Professor Jamie M. Lachman
Lead Principle Investigator
Global Parenting Initiative
University of Oxford
Low resource contexts, high-impact innovation
Working in low-resource environments and across collaborations leads our team to unexpected and original tech products.
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Data Scientist
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Software Developer
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A pathway to purpose
IDEMS develops talented mathematical scientists seeking purpose-driven careers – and offers a professional alternative to traditional careers in academia or mainstream profit-centric technology companies.
POSTDOCTORAL IMPACT ACTIVATION FELLOWSHIPS
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Since 2020, IDEMS has supported more than a dozen two-year postdoctoral fellowships. International postdocs gain valuable expertise and experience, produce original research, and develop an understanding of the many unsolved problems in underserved areas. Postdocs from low-resource contexts gain the freedom to pursue impact research or the professional development needed to grow in an existing role. All work collaboratively with experts in other fields.
George Simmons
PhD in Mathematics
Gaining new skills in biological pest & disease modelling
George has become the interface between Berkeley, California-based CASAS and the needs of local communities in Africa for CRFS, figuring out how to unlock and apply more than 30 years of research to local agroecology.
James Musyoka
PhD in Statistics
Gaining new skills in climate services
James works in statistics education at Kenya’s Maseno University, with an interest in climate. The university granted him leave to support his professional development. He is now conducting research in climate services, learning how to deliver on projects and becoming a recognized global expert.
A first-of-its-kind fellowship cohort
IDEMS is bringing together 10 Africa-based and international postdoctoral researchers in a novel Agroecology Impact Activation Fellowship Cohort. Fellows will continue their own local research or for undertaking new research to support existing projects, all focused on social-impact innovation in the African context. Fellows gain new transdisciplinary research skills and develop original research for publication, with the goal of developing careers in agroecology.
The Cohort brings local and international fellows together to share experiences and knowledge–and form professional relationships, research connections, and valuable networks.
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Ambitious innovation meets public good
As a UK-based Community Interest Company, IDEMS has a mandate to be a profitable nonprofit: profits are reinvested to support the growth of our impact-serving research, development and innovation.
Learn more about the people and practices behind IDEMS
THE IDEMS PRINCIPLES
Principled by design
All IDEMS work is guided by underlying organisational principles for purpose-led decision making and responsible, human-serving technologies. We’re so dedicated to our principles that we recorded The IDEMS Principle, an entire podcast series dedicated them.
Listen to one. Listen to them all.