Growing up in rural Botswana I was always acutely aware of social disparity. People living in towns and the city seemed to have much easier…
Sustainable development: Is scaling science the missing piece of the puzzle?
23/03/2022
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Why we need a southern perspective on scaling impact
22/03/2022
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Researchers and innovators in the Global South are working to find solutions to address global challenges. Unfortunately, too often good ideas and innovations go underused…
The Prevention Collaborative – Feminist Inspired and Evidence Driven
22/03/2022
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This blog is part of a new R2A series, Eye on 2022. Would you like to showcase your communications work, or recommend another comms team?…
The Nieman Journalism Lab – If you’re not a climate reporter yet, you will be: Covid-19 coverage offers lessons for reporting on the climate crisis
18/08/2021
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Understanding your audience is always important for effective communication. For climate change topics, it’s essential. Wolfgang Blau spent a year researching climate change to see the role media could play in better reporting the crisis. This great article published in Nieman segments the general public audience in USA into six useful groups: the alarmed, the concerned, the cautious, the disengaged, the doubtful and the dismissive.
Why Eat Wild Meat? A new decision tool for better project design
13/08/2021
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We have developed a tool that will help conservation practitioners involved in designing wild meat alternatives projects to increase their impact by designing projects that…
Community Engagement: Choosing the right tools
20/04/2021
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The community is a key stakeholder in most research, especially action research, because government policies aim to benefit communities. So how is community engagement woven…
Development Studies: A student perspective
08/09/2020
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In response to the growing Black Lives Matter movement across the world, many of us are reflecting upon race and the role each of us…
Synthetic literature reviews: An introduction
26/05/2020
Whether you are writing a funding proposal or an academic paper, you will most likely be required to start with a literature review of some…
Knowledge and Learning Consultant: Itad – Deadline 7 February
27/01/2020
Knowledge and Learning Consultant Deadline: 7 February, 2020, noon Interviews: week starting 24 February Location: Brighton & Hove, East Sussex UK Term: Full time Salary:…
The Nobel and poverty alleviation: ‘A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure’
21/10/2019
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“A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure” Esther Duflo – winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science in Memory of…
Research film wins impact award
25/02/2019
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Films have the potential to engage a far wider audience and reach further than an academic paper ever could. A film is shared, watched sociably,…
The R2A Career Challenge
07/02/2019
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Do you work in research, policy, or communications? Perhaps you work in two of these fields? Or all three? If so, we want to hear…
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