What are impact logs? All projects receive feedback of some sort. Whether it is formal, informal, or comments and anecdotes, all feedback can help to…
Impact logs: A basic introduction
01/05/2012
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Measuring Success in Research Uptake – R4D Peer Exchange Meeting
01/03/2012
Audio & Video
One of the activities we are focusing on in this phase of the R4D project is to convene a series of peer exchange meetings to…
Learners, practitioners and teachers: Handbook on monitoring, evaluating and managing knowledge for policy influence
21/01/2012
Templates & Toolkits
The main purpose of this handbook is to facilitate the investment process of a public research institute (PRI) in developing a system of monitoring and…
Institutional Strategies for Capturing Socio-Economic Impact of Academic Research
23/10/2011
Papers & Reports
One of the first important points when defining socio-economic impact is the distinction between „dissemination‟ and „impact‟. One of its main conclusions, that while disseminating to a wide range of audiences is positive, impact has to be evidenced by the application of the research outcomes by the user or community.
Improving the flow of your information: Website usability testing
18/10/2011
Blog Posts
When developing online research resource portals, databases and community groups it is often difficult to assess how people will be using a platform as it…
Citations, Citations, Citations: Three ways to Track Research and Measure Impact
12/08/2011
Blog Posts
Measuring research’s impact is notoriously difficult as its effects on policy are hard to substantiate and partly due to the dominance of peer review as…
Participatory video for monitoring and evaluation: community-based adaptation in Africa
13/06/2011
Blog Posts
As mentioned in the post KM Impact Challenge: Some examples for research communications, InsightShare and IIED worked together recently in an action research project called…
Sound expectations: From impact evaluations to policy change
14/03/2011
Papers & Reports
Vanesa Weyrauch and Gala Diaz Langou have developed a conceptual framework to identify factors that help or hinder impact evaluation and analyze how they influence…
A guide to monitoring and evaluating policy influence, ODI
10/02/2011
Guides & Tutorials
This paper provides an overview of approaches to monitoring and evaluating policy influence
Assessing the impact of social science research: conceptual, methodological and practical issues
23/10/2010
Papers & Reports
This paper lays out the reasons why we might want to examine the difference that research can make. It then explores different ways of approaching this problem, outlining the core issues and choices that arise when seeking to assess research impact.
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
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