On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the BBC Radio 4 show ‘The Life Scientific’, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sat down with his distinguished guests…
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Indigenous Capacity Development for Evidence Uptake: An African-led approach
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In 2020, the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) hosted Evidence 2020 Online, an event that brought together experts from the evidence ecosystem in Africa. As a…
Why Eat Wild Meat? A new decision tool for better project design
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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…
Putting the collective impact of global development research into perspective – What we learned from six years of the Impact Initiative
02/07/2021
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Reductions to UK aid have highlighted the need to understand both how international development research has effected, and can continue to effect, positive change. Here,…
Grants acquisition and fundraising strategies: Some basic rules
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Resource mobilisation is key to being awarded grants and carrying out successful fundraising activities conducted. Grant-seeking and fundraising in a development organisation is generally done…
Five Broad Stages of Research
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Research is a systematic inquiry of knowledge that usually involves the collection, compilation, and publication of coherent data. It aims to build on established lines…
Communications and Impact Manager: IDS, Brighton – Deadline 3 November
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Communications and Impact Manager: IDS, Brighton Deadline: 23:59 GMT, Tuesday, 3 November, 2020 Location: Brighton, Sussex, UK Term: Full Time, 35 hours per week, Fixed…
Does research methodology matter to a communicator?
08/10/2020
I have worked in research organisations for the past few years, and working with researchers has become mainstream to me as a communicator, and research…
Development Studies: A student perspective
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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…
Decolonising research: Some useful strategies
01/07/2020
‘Knowledge without context is in fact no knowledge at all’ This quote from Steve Denning, who used to lead the World Bank’s organisational knowledge-sharing programme,…
Gap analysis for literature reviews and advancing useful knowledge
02/06/2020
The basics of research are seemingly clear. Read a lot of articles, see what’s missing, and conduct research to fill the gap in the literature….
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…
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