Management Skills for a Researcher in a Think Tank
In today’s world of fast tracking, building expertise has become one of the biggest challenges for a researcher. Several studies say that the future of think tanks may require an...
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What does the future of think tanks communications hold? A conversation with John Schwartz, Managing Director at Soapbox
John Schwartz, Managing Director at Soapbox, talks about the future of think tank communications. He outlines three trends: digital first, the rise of narratives, and...
How to break through the glass ceiling: supporting a new generation of think tanks and thinktankers
In this post, part of a series based on interviews and visits in Kenya, I share two possible ways for international funders to support the emergence of new thinktankers...
The future of think tanks in Africa: Trends to look out for
This is the first of a series of posts on think tanks in Africa -and Kenya in particular. It looks at some trends that may help to understand the future that think tanks...
Gilles Yabi from West Africa Citizen Think Tank
Gilles Yabi, founder of West Africa Citizen Think Talk, talks about his personal and professional motivations for setting up this new think tank. The interview also discusses the main...
The wonkcomms crystal ball: Five things 2015 will bring for think tank communications
Leonora Merry shares her predictions for 2015. This post was first published on WonkComms and focuses on key and exiting developments in the British think tank scene: a...
Orazio Bellettini on the future of think tanks in Latin America
Last July in Rio de Janeiro, the Fundacion Getulio Vargas of Brazil and the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program of the University of Philadelphia brought together...
The future of think tank communications in Peru
On Monday 12th August, On Think Tanks and GRADE, a think tank based in Lima, held the first conference on the future of think tank communications in Latin America. The panelists were Enrique...
It’s not me, it’s you (understanding the roles of wonk and comms in digital content creation)
Jonathan Tanner of WonkComms has blogged about its event on research in the digital age. The event explored if there was greater convergence between the worlds of...
WonkComms: the future of think tank communications
Last week I attended an event organised by the Social Market Foundation and hosted by ODI on the future of think tank communications. If you are interested (and you should) you can find...
Information Dissemination: Think Tanks, the Media, and the Future of Ideas Distribution
Courtesy of Stephen Yeo, a comment on two posts on the future of how think tanks could communicate in the future. Raymond Pritchett from the Information...