Talking evidence in Latin America: right on time?
The 3rd Latin American Evidence Week is over. It involved more than 80 events involving 15 countries and more that 3,000 participants among researchers, policymakers, journalists, activists,...
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Biased policy professionals and what to do about them
We know that policy professionals are biased. Every one is, after all. Sheheryar Banuri, Stefan Dercon and Varun Gauri have conducted a study on the biases of policy...
Where next for evidence and policy in post-Brexit Britain – according to British academics?
A series of speakers (and authors) at an academic event in June 2017 attempted to address "role of and responses to experts and expertise in the changing political...
Ministers reflect: Ricardo Labó, former deputy minister for mining
This interview has been edited from Ricardo Labó's representation at an event which brought together three Peruvian deputy ministers to reflect on their time in office....
Strategic support to Centro Regional de Estudios de Energía (Cernergía)
Project Brief The Centro Regional de Estudios de Energía (Cernergía) is a Colombian think tank created in 2018. OTT supports Cernergía in: The design of a...
Training on research communication for the University Nottingham
Project brief OTT Consulting is supporting two different target audiences at the University of Nottingham: its research beacons and a wider set of researchers and staff...
OTT-TTI Fellowship Programme
Project brief OTT Consulting is working with the Think Tank Initiative to deliver the 2018-2019 OTT-TTI Fellowship Programme. The programme aims to support new emerging think tanks...
Support to the Think Tank Initiative Exchange (conference)
Project brief OTT Consulting is supporting the Think Tank Initiative to design an outline and session guidance for their 3rd global Think Tank Initiative Exchange to be...
What kind of donor is your donor?
Think tanks have to fundraise. Think tank directors and even individual researchers must spend significant portions of their time fundraising. This is true everywhere -even in developed...
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...
All have to be critical and creative consumers of research
In "Critical context: Research can guide teachers, but it cannot determine what will work in their classrooms", published in the RSA Journal, Dylan Wiliam outlines all we...
What’s new in our understanding of how evidence influences policy? A view from Latin America
It seems rather hard to come up with anything original to say in the field of evidence-informed policy – unless we consider the change from evidence-based to...