Good quality research can easily get overlooked by policymakers, even after receiving widespread acclaim. The path to influencing policy is often shrouded in mystery and…
Reality comes first: Planning for policy influence
20/04/2011
Blog Posts
The Global Guide to Research Impact
20/04/2011
Blog Posts
Good quality research can easily get overlooked by policymakers, even after receiving widespread acclaim. The path to influencing policy is often shrouded in mystery and…
20/04/2011
Blog Posts
Rarely do research communications travel a familiar pathway and reach end users in a linear way to influence policy and practice. We often hear that…
02/03/2011
Papers & Reports
The Research Information Network’s report, If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0, investigates the use of, and attitudes towards, web 2.0 tools and services among the research community.
10/02/2011
Guides & Tutorials
This paper provides an overview of approaches to monitoring and evaluating policy influence
25/01/2011
Audio & Video
Kala Sridhar from the Public Affairs Centre, India was the joint first prize winner of the GDN Medal for Innovative Sources of Development Finance. Here, she discusses the three reasons research communication is vital.
19/11/2010
Papers & Reports
This is an overview of the workshop that took place in London on November 29 and 30, 2010 entitled Improving the impact of development research…
15/11/2010
Templates & Toolkits
There is ample recognition of the non-linear nature of policymaking. It is a complex heterogenic process that rejects sequential markers posed by traditional textbooks. Through…
19/02/2010
How many times have you been enjoying reading an interesting article and then, just one paragraph from the end, up pops a comment that opposes…
14/02/2010
Blog Posts
Although it has become much easier for researchers to photograph their work, quite often we need the photograph that the researcher didn’t take.
09/12/2009
Blog Posts
Roger Highfield, editor of New Scientist, has started a new blog, ‘The S Word’, covering science and policy. Science policymaking for international development hasn’t appeared…
06/12/2009
Blog Posts
Those of us with a good internet connection and questions to ask often turn to Wikipedia.
27/11/2009
Papers & Reports
DFID is a recognised leader among donors in its efforts to support and develop better research communications. A recent report ‘Learning Lessons on Research Uptake…
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