The Global Guide to Research Impact
29/01/2018
Blog Posts
In my last seven years in the development sector, working as a development communications professional, my audiences have primarily been researchers, programmers, policymakers, and general…
26/01/2018
Blog Posts
With academics under pressure to show ‘impact’ in their research, and NGOs under pressure to rigorously evidence their work, partnerships between the two groups have…
12/12/2017
Blog Posts
Anyone who has been at a COP (the annual meeting of the decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC),…
04/12/2017
Blog Posts
Time’s up for doing things a little bit differently. We need to get real about what is needed in order to respond to the uneven…
23/11/2017
Blog Posts
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
Blog Posts
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
Blog Posts
“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
Blog Posts
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
Blog Posts
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
Blog Posts
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.
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
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