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.
8 March 2018
Blog Posts
Turns out living in a fishbowl isn’t always a bad thing. The fishbowl is an alternative facilitation technique to conventional panel discussions. It was used…
28 February 2018
Blog Posts
There has been a huge increase in the quantity and quality of data, evidence, and analysis about African policy. But despite extensive evidence that development…
5 January 2018
Blog Posts
2017 has been a busy year for Research to Action! We facilitated two new webinar series ‘A cup of tea with…‘ and the ‘Research Uptake…
1 November 2017
Blog Posts
Last month the Research to Action Roundtable series brought together a group of evaluators from the DFID-funded What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and…
18 September 2017
Blog Posts
The R2A roundtables continue this month with ‘Evaluating research uptake, impact and communicating evaluations’ on 28 September. The DFID-funded What Works to Prevent Violence evaluation…
15 September 2017
Blog Posts
It might feel like we are living in strange times. One where rhetoric and storytelling are often used by our political leaders in place of…
14 August 2017
Blog Posts
We have turned the ‘Cup of tea with’ webinar series into a playlist of shorter podcasts, available now to listen to for free on Research…
20 July 2017
Blog Posts
How do we manage the delicate balance between ‘technical’ and ‘social’ in translating evidence to action? On the 29 June we held the inaugural Research…
11 July 2017
Blog Posts
Research to Action recently held its first webinar series. The 30-minute webinars aimed to unpack a particular aspect of research uptake over a cup of…
15 June 2017
Blog Posts
On Thursday, 25 May R2A held our final webinar in the ‘Cup of Tea’ series, with an interview between Megan Lloyd-Laney and John Young. If you…
19 May 2017
Blog Posts
It has been a busy year for the international development community. The 2016 Sustainable Development Goals ushered in a greater emphasis on monitoring and evaluation,…
12 May 2017
Blog Posts
Research to Action’s fifth and final webinar in the ‘Cup of tea with…’ series will be held on Thursday, 25 May at 14:00 BST. The…
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