Public engagement: How to build a global evidence base?
Done well, public engagement can empower the public and help researchers, scientists and policymakers to identify the most relevant questions and best decisions....
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What Works? Developing a global evidence base for public engagement
In 2020, the Wellcome Trust commissioned OTT Consulting to recommend the best approach for enabling public engagement communities to share and gather evidence on public...
New platforms for the voices of young people in Bolivia
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated many problems in different areas, all of which urgently require the population to speak out and propose solutions. This difficult...
Narrative power & collective action: conversations with people working to change narratives for social good (Part 2)
Deeply held 'truths' are coming undone at the seams. As movements across the globe are challenging 'normal', more and more people are looking for new narratives. Narratives are a form a...
Narrative power & collective action: conversations with people working to change narratives for social good (Part 1)
For better or worse, narratives are a powerful force. But recently perhaps it’s felt more like for the worse than better. Here, we want to talk about power of narrative and collective...
Innovating on public communications during the COVID-19 pandemic
On 25 March, India sealed its borders and implemented a country-wide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Nobody in our 30-person team could have...
OTT Annual Reviews
OTT Annual Review 2021-2022: think tanks and partnerships for change Think tanks play an essential role in shaping evidence-informed change in the world. But they can’t do it alone. Increasingly, think tanks are...
Operationalising public engagement: four reflections for think tanks
In a previous article, I reflected on how citizen voice and public engagement can increase the quality of research, as well as the credibility, relevance and perception of...
Citizen voice and think tanks: a Nigerian case study
There’s a common perception that top-down development approaches have failed. And public agency is playing a bigger role in policy discussions and in politics, as Stuti...
Public engagement: three considerations for think tanks
How does your think tank visualise ‘the public’? Is it an amorphous sea of faces, where you know they are there but you can’t make out any defining features – much...
What happens when expert and public opinion clash?
Something that has always interested me is this: should policy priorities be based on evidence promoted by policy support organisations (like think tanks) or public opinion? And what happens...
Think tanks and new ways of producing knowledge
Over the last few decades, the ways think tanks produce and communicate knowledge has changed. For think tanks, this is an opportunity to hear more voices and to engage with society in new...
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