Exploring the relationship between think tanks and social movements
Do think tanks and social movements work together? What motivates this engagement? How do they work with each other? What difficulties do they face? With the support of...
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Social movements and think tanks
Project brief The Open Society Foundations (OSF) and On Think Tanks (OTT) are exploring how they can best support partnerships between think tanks and social/popular movements. To inform...
Damien King, Executive Director at CaPRI (part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of 2. Funding challenges and CaPRI´s private sector model. Read part 1. Damien King is the Executive Director at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI),...
Damien King, Executive Director at CaPRI (part 1 of 2)
Part 1 of 2: On Research, Communications and Credibility. Read part 2. Damien King is the Executive Director at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI), as well...
OTT-TTI Fellowship Programme
Project brief OTT Consulting worked with the Think Tank Initiative to deliver the 2018-2019 OTT-TTI Fellowship Programme. The programme aimed to support new emerging think tanks leaders...
Ministers reflect: “there isn’t a manual”
To promote the use of evidence to inform public policies, we must strengthen the quality and relevance of research, but also understand how political decision-making works...
Think tank perceptions in the UK: the importance of understanding our audiences’ views and needs
We are Flint (a communications consultancy) have launched the results of a UK survey aimed at understanding how think tanks are viewed by the general public. The report...
About the On Think Tanks Working Paper Series
In 2017, we launched the OTT working paper series, in partnership with the University of Bath and Universidad del Pacífico. The series aims to encourage research on evidence-based policy...
Think tank perceptions in the USA: a glass half full
The credibility of a think tank rests not only on their own actions (and how their stakeholder’s view them), but also on how the sector is perceived. Reports of lack of...
De-constructing credibility: Factors that affect a think tank’s credibility
Abstract This paper explores the concept of credibility and its importance for think tanks. Credibility is paramount to a think tank as having it qualifies think tanks...
Deconstruyendo la credibilidad. Factores que afectan la credibilidad de un think tank
La razón de ser de los centros de investigación es investigar para informar políticas públicas. Pero, para lograrlo, deben ser percibidos como fuentes creíbles...
De-constructing credibility. Factors that affect a think tank’s credibility
The raison d’être of a policy research centres is to carry out research to inform policy and practice. To achieve that, they need to be perceived as credible...