Will you take a walk with me? I’d like to tell you what I learned in Bonn at the UNFCCC COP a few days ago….
And after the UNFCCC Bonn climate talks: An appetite for disruption
23/11/2017
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The Global Guide to Research Impact
23/11/2017
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Will you take a walk with me? I’d like to tell you what I learned in Bonn at the UNFCCC COP a few days ago….
22/06/2017
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I lead the Research Uptake and Communications Unit in my organisation, the Health Research and Social Development Forum (HERD). I always find it useful and…
07/06/2017
News & Opportunities
Join Duncan Green and the RSA for a free webinar on ‘How Change Happens’, Thursday, 8 June, 2017, 1-2pm (BST) How can we effect real…
27/02/2015
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“What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world’s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF,…
24/02/2015
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I write this as I sit on the train, on my way home from an inspiring few days in snow-covered Istanbul. Providing the social reporting…
17/06/2014
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There are many (brilliant and essential) initiatives around better linking academic research and policy such as 3ie, DRUSSA and Research Impact. However it is not just research-generated ‘knowledge’ that does and should inform development policy.
08/04/2014
Templates & Toolkits
This publication is an output from a project funded by Department for International Development (DFID) for the benefit of developing countries as it shares information on research, promote and development communication methods and scientific advocacy.
06/03/2014
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CommsConsult are now into the final year of work on the 3-year 3ie Policy Influence Monitoring project, where the focus has recently shifted to some of the project’s evaluation deliverables; most notably to the ‘Stories of Change’. These stories aim to pull out some of the lessons learned from the Impact Evaluations for application by future such studies.
18/10/2011
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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…
13/05/2011
Papers & Reports
ODI recently ran a webinar (May 5th 2011) entitled ‘Understanding and supporting networks: learning from theory and practice’. Two papers were presented at the event….
12/05/2011
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Back in February 2010, we posted a blog on Research to Action called “Finding the Right Photo” which aimed to address the problems many development…
10/05/2011
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All new DFID-Funded Research Programme Consortia (RPC) are been asked to develop a ‘Theory of Change’ during their inception phase. This is seen as an…
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