The Global Guide to Research Impact
12/09/2011
Papers & Reports
Promoting Research Uptake: New media versus traditional media is a recently published DFID paper from the IPS Africa Changing Lives: Making Research Real Forum held…
05/09/2011
Blog Posts
A number of studies have shown that journalists are increasingly relying on social media to source information. A widely cited study: the fourth annual Digital…
19/07/2011
Templates & Toolkits
HERproject, a Global initiative that delivers women’s health education programs in participating factories across Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Pakistan, and Vietnam, has recently launched…
24/06/2011
Blog Posts
It is increasingly well recognised that Web 2.0 has dramatically changed the way that development research results are being both assembled and disseminated. A recent…
06/06/2011
Blog Posts
If you don’t know it yet, or if you’re not sure of its significance it’s time you caught up – web 2.0 has dramatically changed…
28/05/2011
Blog Posts
Ever wondered what role Wikipedia should play in research communication? This post entitled ‘Academics, in New Move, Begin to Work With Wikipedia’ from The Chronicle…
12/05/2011
Blog Posts
Back in February 2010, we posted a blog on Research to Action called “Finding the Right Photo” which aimed to address the problems many development…
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.
20/12/2010
Papers & Reports
A report by the Research Information Network (RIN) has explored how researchers in the UK use electronic journals.
07/12/2010
Blog Posts
Geoff Barnard’s (CDKN) keynote presentation focused on how to survive and thrive in what he called the ‘Knowledge Pond’ – the community of practice associated with knowledge sharing and research communication.
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…
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
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