Current Bloggers
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Ajoy Datta
Ajoy Datta is a Research Officer at the Overseas Development Institute. His expertise lies in knowledge interaction processes (including research communications, knowledge brokering, policy influence work and public engagement processes), key intermediaries (such as think tanks, networks and legislators), policy processes and knowledge use (including understanding policymaker incentives and providing advice for them to make better use of knowledge) and sustainably developing capacities of human systems.
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Allison Stevens
12 years experience in research & development communications. Writing blogs for Research to Action to share what I have learnt from my everyday work experiences so that other communication practioners and researchers might learn something new, or identify with something in the blog, or suggest a better way of doing something. Twitter: @astevens2013
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Andrew Clappison
Dr. Andrew Clappison’s professional interests centre on research engagement, the challenges attached to getting research into policy and practice, and the measurement of research 'impact'. He currently manages www.researchtoaction.org, and hopes that the initiative will play a pivotal role in enhancing the knowledge of public-goods researchers and knowledge exchange professionals trying to attain quality engagement and research impact.
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Arnaldo Pellini
Arnaldo is a Research Associate at the Research and Policy in Development programme of ODI. His background is in economics with a specialization decentralization and local governance reforms, community participation in local governance and service provision, in particular education, and evidence-based policy influencing processes. Arnaldo has more than ten years of field experience at national and local level in Asian countries. He joined ODI in 2008 after two years working with UNDP in Vietnam on a programme to improve research management and policy engagement at the Vietnamese Academy for Social Science.
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Betty Allen
Social Media Consultant at CommsConsult Ltd. I firmly believe that social media is a powerful tool in the communication of development research and am committed to embracing and understanding new, emerging and appropriate techniques for communicating development. I am a graduate of the Combined Universities of Cornwall and recently completed an MA in Film and Cultural Management.
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Cheryl Brown
Cheryl Brown is a Chartered Marketer and former editor at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and works with research institutes and knowledge brokers in international development to help them increase the uptake of their research. She is a part-time lecturer on professional marketing courses including the CAM Diploma in Digital Marketing. Cheryl has a particular interest in applying behaviour change theories (social marketing) to the process of development research
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Isabel Vogel
Isabel Vogel is an independent consultant supporting organisations to achieve their social goals through learning, evidence and innovation. She has previously held posts at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Department for International Development (DFID). More recently her work as focused on developing and reviewing the use of Theory of Change in International Development programmes.
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James Harvey
Dr James Harvey is a research impact specialist at CommsConsult Ltd, a UK based consultancy working to improve research communications and help researchers and organizations evaluate impact. An enthusiastic advocate for engagement, James sees effective communication as an essential bridge to achieving influence and impact. As a contributor to R2A his understanding of the impact agenda in the UK higher education sector is an important addition to our portfolio of expertise. He regularly tweets at #researchimpact
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Kate Hawkins
Kate is one of the founders of Pamoja Communications and over the years she has worked with multilaterals, bilateral donors, researchers and the non-governmental sector on policy related issues. In recent years she has had more of a focus on research communications and the process by which evidence is translated into policy and practice.
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Kennedy Oulu
Kennedy Oulu lives in Tanzania and is an independent consultant on children and youth research, evaluation and development. He is passionate about generating ideas,managing knowledge and evidence to build the capacities of people and organizations.
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Kimberly Clarke
Kimberly has a strong international background in editing, evaluation and tracking the impact of communication and has worked with many international organizations, development agencies and media including the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK Department For International Development (DfID), Practical Action, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Earthscan, the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Institute of Development Studies (IDS), International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), SCF Canada, Plan International, the World Bank, UNDP, FAO, BBC, TVE and OnePlanet Pictures. Kimberly currently works for Inter Press Services (IPS).
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Kirsty Newman
Kirsty Newman is Research Uptake Manager with the Research and Evidence Division of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). She has a PhD in molecular virology and worked as a research fellow in the immunology department at LSHTM from 2004 to 2008. Since that time she has been working on capacity building programmes at the Wellcome Trust, the UK Parliament and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications.
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Laurie Aldous-Grant
Laurie believes that good communication has to be the basis for all positive change. Having experience designing and running websites, implementing advertising campaigns and writing press releases for local and national media, Laurie understands the benefits of a well-designed communication strategy. This awareness forms a useful backdrop to her real passion for research and writing.
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Megan Lloyd-Laney
Megan Lloyd-Laney has worked for numerous bilateral, multilateral, diaspora, educational and government organisations. Highlights include a recent three-year stint as consultant Communications Advisor in the Department for International Development’s Research Department; Advocacy Trainer for UNIFEM’s Ending Violence against Women campaigns; and PR Lecturer for University College Falmouth.
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Nyasha Musandu
Nyasha Musandu works for CommsConsult (Zimbabwe office) and is involved in a variety of projects covering numerous aspects of research communication, engagement and M&E.
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Pete Cranston
Pete Cranston is an ICT, Communication and New Media specialist, with long experience as a facilitator and trainer. His early career was in international and UK education, working with adults and 16 -19 year olds, and for the past 14 years he has worked in the 3rd sector, mainly in International Development. A seasoned manager of organisational IS&T and ICT development programmes, he has worked for five years as an independent consultant supporting strategic planning, organisational communication, research, evaluation and knowledge management. A significant part of his work has been with telecentres and local content exchange while his most recent research has been into global social media trends, with special reference to health communications, and the impact of convergent mobile technologies in rural development. For the past three years advising and training in web 2.0 technologies and interactive media, at both strategic and practical application levels, has taken up an increasing proportion of his work.
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Pier Andrea Pirani
Pier Andrea is co-director of Euforic Services. He joined Euforic in late 2004 as project officer. He has been working on the main Euforic website involved in the different activities undertaken with members. In particular, he has been involved in training and supporting staff from development organizations in the use of web2.0 and social media tools, facilitating of awareness and training session and supporting users in implementing the new web tools into their daily work. He also uses the new web tools for social reporting in conference and face to face events.
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Research to Action
Research to Action (R2A) is a website catering for the strategic and practical needs of people trying to improve the uptake of development research.
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Sally-Theobald
Sally Theobald has a disciplinary background of geography and development studies and a PhD in Gender, Health and Development. She has wide ranging experience of designing and implementing gender sensitive qualitative research projects on HIV, TB, SRH and health systems in Thailand. She is currently working on collaborative research project s in Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ghana, Cambodia and Yemen. Sally is very interested in research impact and have been leading work in this area that brings together the experiences of 28 research institutions in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Zeinab Sabet
Zeinab Sabet (Research Communication Capacity Building Manager, GDNet) has worked for Amnesty International (EU Office) and the United United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She holds a Master degree in Political and Social Sciences from "Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg" and another in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies from the College of Europe.
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