The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach, in short ROMA, is a strategic planning tool that ODI’ RAPID programme has suggested for some years as a way…
Policy entrepreneurs’ skills with a little bit of help from Carl Jung
01/06/2012
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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.
01/06/2012
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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach, in short ROMA, is a strategic planning tool that ODI’ RAPID programme has suggested for some years as a way…
21/05/2012
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The DFID-funded EdQual RPC has provided a list of the communications strategies it developed over the course of the programme between 2005-2009 . This provides…
21/05/2012
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In this post entitled “Podcasts are a natural fit for communication of academic ideas”, Mark Carrigan, a contributor to the LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences…
15/05/2012
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This is an insightful post by Judy Sebba (Professor of Education and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Education and Social…
30/04/2012
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This interesting post, entitled ‘Academics must realise the value in working with think tanks and pressure groups that can re-package their research for a wider…
12/04/2012
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We seem to be witnessing a social phenomenon that could indeed come to define the kind of world we live in. Climate Change is a…
21/02/2012
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It’s amazing how the process of answering simple questions can help you uncover so much complexity. It’s rather like a child lifting a large stone…
19/01/2012
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There is an ever greater need to think about information and knowledge flow – what works and what doesn’t. As the demand for effective research…
16/12/2011
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Communicating effectively is a key to increase the impact of research. This is why GDNet dedicates its Research Communications Capacity Building Programme to help researchers…
14/12/2011
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In the Summer of 2005, I can remember watching a report during the evening news on the state run national broadcaster in Zambia on the…
14/12/2011
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In June a really valuable special supplement was published in the open access journal Health Research Policy and Systems. Contributors to this supplement, Sally Theobald…
30/11/2011
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In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in international development circles in protecting and using indigenous knowledge. Countries such as Kenya and…
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