Open access is important because, simply put: if research is not accessible it will not be read. If it is not read then citations, media attention,…
Open Access – Key resources
05/05/2017
Guides & Tutorials
The Global Guide to Research Impact
If research can’t be found, or is not easily understood by target audiences it simply does not travel, falling at the first hurdle in the process of trying to bring about change.
05/05/2017
Guides & Tutorials
Open access is important because, simply put: if research is not accessible it will not be read. If it is not read then citations, media attention,…
26/10/2016
Guides & Tutorials
Have you ever wondered how stories start to spread across the media – or how to get your story into the loop that journalists are…
09/06/2015
Guides & Tutorials
Thought about holding a stall at a conference to present your research or to use the opportunity to network, but found the prospect too daunting…
27/10/2014
Guides & Tutorials
This guide outlines how to make the most of your policy brief, by using strategic planning and targeted engagement with policy actors, to help you achieve positive policy influence.
29/09/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Policy briefs are useful influencing tools for think tanks and research institutions. This quick guide, developed as part of the Think Tank Initiative’s Policy Engagement and Communications Program, is aimed at researchers and communications staff who are planning policy briefs for the first time, or want to review their approach.
11/08/2014
Guides & Tutorials
A spanish-language Publications Policy, developed by Vanesa Weyrauch for ASIES, as part of the Policy Engagement and Communication programme, has helped the think tank to roll out a consistent corporate identify across its diverse publications.
11/08/2014
Guides & Tutorials
ASIES Facilitator Vanesa Weyrauch shares a spanish-language guide to communications policies that describes a set of tools for think tanks who participate in diverse communication practices to raise visibility of both their organisation and published research.
11/08/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Developing a social network strategy is key to understanding and more effectively engaging with key audiences and making better use of social media tools. In this post, Latin American think tank ASIES shares a guide they produced to help them manage their social networks more strategically.
16/06/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Join us for our first Research to Action free Webinar! Guest speaker, Social Media Consultant Betty Paton, will be presenting on her experience managing the @DFID_Research twitter account for the Department for International Development from 2010 to 2013.
03/04/2014
Guides & Tutorials
This guide to Twitter takes you from setting up an account, through building Twitter relationships, to creating and managing lists. It also focuses on policies and procedures, style and tone-of-voice and strategic Twitter goals.
19/03/2014
Guides & Tutorials
This guide, developed by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), offers guidance on the use of data visualization, the different stages of visualization development and how it is relevant to communicating your research.
20/02/2014
Guides & Tutorials
This simple guide, developed by IDS as part of the Think Tank Initiative’s Policy Engagement and Communcations (PEC) programme, is desiged to help people understand what strategic communications is, and what it is not, from a research communications perspective.
Social Media