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Communications Officer, United Nations Environment Programme: Paris – Deadline 16 March

Communications Officer, United Nations Environment Programme Deadline: 16 March, 2023 Location: Paris, France Term: 1 year with opportunity for extension Department: United Nations Environment...

Putting research users into the centre of uptake strategy: lessons from the EEG programme

This 23-page report produced by the Applied Research Programme on Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) presents the EEG’s research uptake strategy.  To...

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Creating Presentations with ease

Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. You can use it to create social media content, infographics, and even presentations. A...

European Union Prize for Citizen Science

European Union Prize for Citizen Science, Ars Electronica Deadline: March 13, 2023 Location: Linz / Austria Awards Ceromony: September 2023 Announcement and Press...

How to standardise quantitative indicators of impact 

This 40-page guide by RAND Europe, an NGO policy research organisation, presents recommendations for standardising quantitative indicators of impact. Originally produced in...

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CGIAR Science Communications Awards 2009

23/11/2009

News & Opportunities

Do you know of an outstanding bit of science communication by a CGIAR project or partner? If so, why don’t you give them a pat…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Capturing and using effective information exchange patterns

22/11/2009

Papers & Reports

Few logframes effectively capture all – or even many – of the ways in which researchers are exchanging information. The absence of this element results…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Open Access – What can DFID do?

16/11/2009

Open Access Blog Posts

There was a great deal of interest in the recent ‘Open Access Week’. DFID-funded researchers are asking themselves both what is expected of them and…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Explosive adventures in podcasting

15/10/2009

Blog Posts

‘It’s more complicated that that’ must be the official war cry of scientists and researchers. I have a great deal of sympathy for you, having…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Policymaker, policy maker, or policy-maker?

12/10/2009

Word processors have changed dramatically the way we all work. There is still a lot for editors to do, but today it is easier for…

Kimberly Clarke

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Rational decision-making? It just doesn’t work that way…

24/09/2009

Blog Posts

The more I learn about the way people make decisions, the more I wish I’d studied psychology. We’ve evolved, but not as much as we…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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My policymaker doesn’t understand me…

18/09/2009

Audio & Video

Isn’t it always the way? Just when you think that you’re getting along like a house on fire, speaking the same language, enjoying a meeting…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Katine: An ambitious mega-media development partnership

11/09/2009

Blog Posts

While many researchers and development projects struggle to get even a single relevant mention in their local newspaper, one project in Uganda has been receiving…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Reaching out for research communicators

20/08/2009

Blog Posts

DFID funds a number of different organisations who are trying to help researchers communicate their work more effectively. This week we feature resources from two…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Make your scientific posters sing

13/08/2009

Blog Posts

Conferences are an important way to share new research findings and connect with other researchers. The ‘poster session’ is now a mainstay of the conference…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Customise your tiny URLs and track click statistics

06/08/2009

Blog Posts

As websites have become more complex, the length of web addresses (URLs) has grown, and they have become increasingly unwieldy. Hot links and hyperlinks are…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Brevity – the soul of communication?

03/04/2009

Blog Posts

One of the key challenges that all researchers face is how to get policymakers to take note of their findings. No two policymakers are quite…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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