There’s a common story in development research. It goes like this. If academics from the global North, researchers from the global South, and CSOs participate…
Getting to grips with the politics of research collaboration
07/11/2018
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Four critical organisational features that impact policy and practice
24/10/2018
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Research organisations are changing the make-up of their teams in order to increase the likelihood of their research having an impact on policy and practice….
Building new relationships: The right strategy, at the right time
15/10/2018
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Building relationships is all about communication. Building new relationships beyond your existing networks challenges you to look hard at both who you are and who…
R2A: Polling our audience
10/10/2018
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Research to Action has crowdsourced answers to questions relating to research communications and impact. In the spirit of sharing to continually improve strategies and outcomes, here…
Innovation expands access to Nicaraguan Sign Language
26/09/2018
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During International Week of the Deaf, Sign On For Literacy prize winner Manos Unidas shares how technology is transforming access to education for deaf children…
People matter, not papers: Watching policymakers acquire knowledge in Indonesia
17/09/2018
Funders support (non-governmental) think tanks, assuming they will influence government policy by (amongst other things) producing and sharing short, punchy written outputs like policy briefs…
‘Life Is Too Short to RTFM’ wins Ig Nobel for Literature
14/09/2018
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A little light humour for a Friday… The latest round of Ig Nobel Prizes was given out last night, and for those of us in…
Going ‘mobile first’ to reach African audiences
03/09/2018
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Mobile means more than being on the move, it means connecting to the next generation of African audiences. Recent data shows that 52% of the world’s website traffic…
Referencing sources – making it work for non-academic audiences
14/08/2018
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Referencing our sources of evidence when writing for academic audiences is common practice. Yet, for the average reader of research outside academia, references are often…
Running your organisation’s social media: What I’ve learned so far
13/08/2018
Social media has become indispensable in our daily lives and its significance has increased dramatically over the years. This has influenced the way research dissemination…
Four principles to make evidence synthesis more useful for policy
10/08/2018
Some of the top science policymakers in the UK have teamed up to urge that we ‘Reward the creation of analyses for policymakers that are…
Using outcome mapping to get research into use in East and Southern Africa
20/07/2018
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I recently published a learning report which documents my organisation’s experience using outcome mapping to plan, monitor, and evaluate research uptake. I work for the…
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