On Thursday the 19th February the TTI Exchange is hosting a session entitled ‘Think Tanks influence during elections’ . The session (2D) is intended as…
Think Tanks influence during elections: The Paraguay Debate
14/02/2015
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Knowing your audience (34/43)
Not everyone will find your research useful. You need to know who your audience is and what information they need in order to communicate with them effectively.
Research quality and Think Tanks: definition, responsibility and impact
13/02/2015
Blog Posts
Gary Mena is a researcher within ARU, a research institution based in Bolivia. The following blog was originally submitted to the TTI Exchange e-forum as a…
Research conference of southern experts at TTIX2015
12/02/2015
News & Opportunities
A research conference called Southern Voice on Post-MDG International Development Goals and Targets, organised by Southern Voice (SV) in association with Think Tank Initiative (TTI)…
Sharing Data: A first step using infographics
11/02/2015
Blog Posts
“How can we best share the vast amount of data we have on over 40 think tanks around the globe?” This has always been a…
Media engagement for policy advocacy: A short introduction
11/02/2015
Audio & Video
In this short video, Aditi Kapoor, from the Public Affairs Centre, discusses how to use media for policy advocacy. The video preceded a webinar on…
Introduction to Behavioural Change: Workshop Learning Report
29/01/2015
Papers & Reports
To communicate, or not to communicate? At the Bangalore-based Public Affairs Centre (PAC), my challenge was to impress upon a dedicated group of researchers that…
Raising the communication bar at NCAER
28/01/2015
Blog Posts
My first take on working with the reputed National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) was: here is a Think Tank that takes communication with…
Playing to their strengths: Honing media skills for research communication
26/01/2015
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by Shilpi Tripathi. Young faculty and researchers at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) come from some of the best universities globally, bringing…
The Advocacy Skills workshop: A participant’s view
21/01/2015
Blog Posts
by Sukanya Bhaumik, Programme Officer, PAC As a part of our PEC programme, our facilitator (Ms Aditi Kapoor) conducted 3 workshops including the Advocacy Skills…
Lessons from 2014: What Policy Makers want from Researchers
19/01/2015
Blog Posts
2014 saw a growing number of studies attempting to answer the question: What do Policy Makers really want from researchers? This post argues that if we can answer this question then research communication will be far more successful.
The dos and don’ts of successful media engagement
15/01/2015
Blog Posts
Media engagement can seem like a minefield to the uninitiated scientist. Getting 2015 off to a positive start, Research Media’s Ben McCluskey offers a helping hand, highlighting some of the common pitfalls and providing guidelines for getting engagement right.
Can science be open to everyone?
19/11/2014
Blog Posts
Dr Ben Skuse investigates how social media platforms like ResearchGate and increasingly ambitious citizen science projects like the Encyclopedia of Life are spurring a new inclusive scientific culture that embraces the public in the scientific process – open science
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
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