Linking research and policy: thinktankers as boundary workers
We discussed the concept of a boundary worker in a series of posts about the often used supply-and-demand of research model for supporting research uptake. At the time,...
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An alternative to the supply, demand and intermediary model: competencies for all
Last month I spent quite a bit of time working on a proposal for a potential project and, in the background to it, prepared a short section discussing the often-used...
Never mind the gap: on how there is no gap between research and policy and on a new theory (Part 3 of 3)
A new theory: Density If anything, the larger the project the easier it should be to influence change. According to Mirko Lauer, a Peruvian journalist, the key factor...
Never mind the gap: on how there is no gap between research and policy and on a new theory (Part 1 of 3)
This is the first of three posts that I hope to publish over the next couple weeks. Together, they make up an essay I started to write while at ODI last year and that I...
What is the role of the intelligence services? And think tanks?
Prospect Magazine has published a fantastic article by Gregory F. Treverton (director of the Rand Corporation’s Center for global Risk and Security) on the role of the...
On the formation and support of think tanks
At an event on intermediaries today I was asked about the incentives that may drive parliamentarians to demand research based evidence -and how would one go about finding out. I'll deal...
on the definition of think tanks
I have yet to be able to get through a presentation or debate about think tanks without the issue of their definition getting in the way of what would have otherwise been a thoroughly...