The Global Guide to Research Impact
It’s not easy to measure the impact of development research in bringing about positive change. It’s even harder to show how communications efforts, and expenditure, helps to achieve both research objectives, and development outcomes. This section aims to offer key resources and insights to help support better monitoring and evaluation of research uptake activities.
11/04/2013
Blog Posts
In his latest post, Andrew Clappison reflects upon the discussion that took place during the Future of Impact Conference, and encourages us to think about the value of impact beyond the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF)
05/04/2013
News & Opportunities
Next week (10th April 2013), ‘The Future of Impact’ Conference will take place at Woburn House in London. The event aims to “showcase leading national and international inquiry into the Impact of university research”.
02/04/2013
Blog Posts
Andrew Clappison argues there is one huge obstacle flying in the face of evidence informed policy making and that’s the fact we live in a socially constructed world, where politics, culture and power shapes peoples behaviour and norms.
07/03/2013
Papers & Reports
This working paper offers guidelines that nonprofit organizations can use when designing evaluations to learn about both their investments in communications strategies and the impacts of those investments.
27/02/2013
Papers & Reports
This paper explores and sumarises the discussions that took place during the International Conference on Evidence-Informed Policy Making in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
25/02/2013
Blog Posts
In this post, James Harvey explores some difficult and unanswered questions on research ‘impact’, such as “How deep is our understanding of influence itself?” and “Do we really have the processes in place to detect influence at all?”
19/02/2013
Blog Posts
Aranaldo Pellini looks at how evidence is informing policy in Indonesia, arguing that a big push to strengthen the use of research and data analysis in the design of public policies is needed to sustain growth.
28/01/2013
Blog Posts
In this article, James Harvey examines the relationship between influence and impact and how the questions that arise have implications for current thinking on monitoring and evaluation.
17/01/2013
Blog Posts
The word on the street is that ‘evidence informed’ policy is going to be big in 2013. R2A spoke to Antonio Capillo, part of the evidence informed policy making team at INASP, and asked him to recommend some blogs on the subject.
23/10/2012
Guides & Tutorials
The five competencies framework is an exercise enabling an organisation (or a group of organisations) to work out, in a simple and effective manner, what different elements have to learn, and what they have to share in the realm of organisational learning and knowledge management.
03/09/2012
Blog Posts
We caught up with Kirsty Newman last week to talk about her new role at DFID, what she learnt from her time at INASP, and to return to some of the issues she has blogged about previously on Research to Action.
12/06/2012
Papers & Reports
This Background Note describes a case study of one attempt to assess the impact of a knowledge product: The Vietnam Development Report 2010 (VDR 2010)….
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
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