The Global Guide to Research Impact
14/11/2012
Blog Posts
Biomed Central’s Publishing Director Deborah Kahn speaks to Allison Stevens about the cross-cutting themes that emerged during two high profile conferences on Open Access that took place recently in Berlin and Cape Town.
12/11/2012
Blog Posts
Nyasha Musandu explores the value and challenges associated with mapping context as a first step in strategizing for policy influence. Nyasha’s reflections come from her work on the 3ie Policy Influence and Monitoring (PIM) project.
08/11/2012
Guides & Tutorials
COMDIS-HSD have just launched this valuable guide that describes how to achieve an embedded approach to health research. Supply and demand are brought together in this interesting approach.
06/11/2012
Blog Posts
BioMed Central, an open access journal publisher in biology and medicine, hosted the 3rd Open Access Africa conference at the University of Cape Town from 4-5 November 2012, giving us the opportunity to ask “What is the state of open access?”
30/10/2012
Blog Posts
Allison Stevens argues that Open Access holds a lot of potential for Africa, but that we need to remember words that like ‘repositories’, ‘creative commons’, and even ‘open access’ are terms that people outside of the academic realm are not familiar with.
30/10/2012
Papers & Reports
The K* concept paper, just released, looks to address the array of terms associated with knowledge mobilisation. The paper shows that many of these terms are systemically linked to each other and attempts to unify the field to some extent.
29/10/2012
Audio & Video
Taking information to the consumer. Duncan Edwards-IDS from Research to Action on Vimeo. Duncan Edwards talks about developing Application Programming Interfaces for datasets at the…
29/10/2012
Audio & Video
Tariq Kokhar, Open Data evangelist for the World Bank discusses the potential of Open data in development and explains how giving wider access to more data could potentially remove the north-south divide in development research.
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.
15/10/2012
Blog Posts
Isabel Vogel provides the expert view on identifying and honing your assumptions when developing a theory of change.
03/10/2012
Blog Posts
Lindsey Jones (ODI) shares his thoughts on translating research into policy and practice, while also challenging the existing incentives for researchers to think proactively about influence and change.
01/10/2012
News & Opportunities
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have recently published a new Bulletin entitled New Roles for Communication in Development? (Lewin, T. Harvey, B., and Page,…
🌀 Have we stopped caring about the climate?
Crisis fatigue. Shrinking attention spans. Endless global emergencies.
🌍 Climate change is slipping off the radar — even as the urgency grows.
In her latest blog, Inés Arangüena comnsiders new research from the Reuters Institute and explores how we can re-ignite public connection to the climate crisis — emotionally and politically.
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🌀 Can we predict research impact?
Not exactly — but we can think more clearly about what’s likely, what’s possible, and what’s out of our hands.
This week on @researchtoaction, we’re recommending a thoughtful resource:
📄 “Seeing the Future: Predictability in Research Impact”
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A useful read for researchers, funders & knowledge brokers thinking about how research makes a difference in the real world.
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