Being influential requires you to be clear who you are trying to influence! As basic as this sounds, it is often the reason why researchers…
GDN/PEM Asia Research Communications Workshop
17/10/2011
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Posts Tagged 'policy making'
Reality comes first: Planning for policy influence
20/04/2011
Blog Posts
Good quality research can easily get overlooked by policymakers, even after receiving widespread acclaim. The path to influencing policy is often shrouded in mystery and…
Research communications and uptake: drawing inspiration from Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point
20/04/2011
Blog Posts
Rarely do research communications travel a familiar pathway and reach end users in a linear way to influence policy and practice. We often hear that…
A guide to monitoring and evaluating policy influence, ODI
10/02/2011
Guides & Tutorials
This paper provides an overview of approaches to monitoring and evaluating policy influence
Kala Sridhar: Research Communication and Policy Implications
25/01/2011
Audio & Video
Kala Sridhar from the Public Affairs Centre, India was the joint first prize winner of the GDN Medal for Innovative Sources of Development Finance. Here, she discusses the three reasons research communication is vital.
Weaving Global Networks: Handbook for Policy Influence
15/11/2010
Templates & Toolkits
There is ample recognition of the non-linear nature of policymaking. It is a complex heterogenic process that rejects sequential markers posed by traditional textbooks. Through…
How can we support the use of systematic reviews in policymaking?
09/07/2010
Journal Articles
The article, How Can We Support the Use of Systematic Reviews in Policymaking? Talks about how the landscape has changed for policy makers, why systematic…
New science policy blog at ‘New Scientist’
09/12/2009
Blog Posts
Roger Highfield, editor of New Scientist, has started a new blog, ‘The S Word’, covering science and policy. Science policymaking for international development hasn’t appeared…
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…
Open Access – What can DFID do?
16/11/2009
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…
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…
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…
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