Embedding communications staff in research teams to increase policy impact
This article reflects on the practicalities, benefits and challenges of embedding communications staff in research teams, based on the experience of four policy research...
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Embedding communications staff in research teams to increase policy impact
Today, most policy research organisations have some degree of in-house communications support. Typically, this is a centralised team. However, in some organisations...
Authorship assignment: Recognising the contributions of individual authors of multi-authored reports
Step-by-step over the past 50 years the production of social science research, including policy research, has shifted from a solitary enterprise to a team effort. The...
Authorship assignment: Recognising the contributions of individual authors of multi-authored reports
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about the key empirical facts on the shift from solo-authored papers to team production, introducing couple of options for...
An evolving wave in think tank policy development
An important line of analytic development has been underway for a decade or more, with a new group of actors emerging. The primary differentiating characteristic of this emerging group is...
Did COVID-19 change think tanks’ annual staff assessments?
Two recent developments may be having significant effects on the way think tanks are structuring their staff assessments. First, is the simplification of elaborate...
Did COVID-19 change think tanks’ annual staff assessments?
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about how two recent developments may be having significant effects on the way think tanks are structuring their staff...
The increasing incidence of working remotely: implications for think tanks
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, various observers of the development of business staff practices are considering the possible lasting effects of the massive shift in the...
Three new reports from the China Think Tank Index programme
This note introduces three new reports from the China Think Tank Index (CTTI) programme conceived and managed by the China Think Tank Research and Evaluation Centre...
What happens when authors and reviewers disagree? Lessons from a successful case
In 1990, Michael Fix and I co-edited a book of articles about the use of a technique called ‘auditing’ to measure discrimination against ethnic minority groups when...
The significant evolution in staff assessments: a good fit for think tanks?
There is an ongoing, comparatively quiet evolution in the business world, especially among tech firms, large consultancies and major international law firms, to...
The significant evolution in staff assessments: a good fit for think tanks?
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about the evolution in staff assessments for think tanks. There is an ongoing, comparatively quiet evolution in the...
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