OTT TV – The Belfer Center: Targeting a policymaker audience

11 October 2016
In this episode of OTT TV we talk with Josh Burek of the Belfer Center at Harvard about the importance of thinking through ones audience before publishing a report for policymakers.

In this episode of OTT TV we talk with Josh Burek of the Belfer Center at Harvard about the importance of thinking through ones audience before publishing a report targeted at policymakers – about thinking through the demand side for research. He suggests three key questions all researchers should keep in mind when writing policy-relevant reports: Why does this matter? Who should care? And what should they do about it? He focuses on a report on preventing nuclear terrorism and how they approached getting political buy-in for the report among US congresspeople.