Soft skills in the future of think tanks
Soft skills are hard skills, or so the saying goes. However, how does that work in a sector where people pride themselves on technical knowledge, independence and facts? The WinterSchool...
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Think tanks have a branding problem. What’s the solution?
It’s barbeque season in the UK, meaning think tankers get to experience the unique joy of watching people question their career choice through a mouth full of...
New technology and ‘old’ think tanks
‘Expert or academic carries out research. Generates rigorous 40-page report. Comms officer is asked to promote said report. Launch event, press release, tweets. Maybe a video. Maybe an...
The role of citizens’ voice in think tanks’ body of evidence
The perceived failure of top-down approaches to development has put pressure on think tanks to involve the public more. Stuti Khemani’s research highlights the agency of...
OTT TV: John Schwartz, Founder and CEO of Soapbox, on branding
John Schwartz, Founder and CEO of Soapbox, talk to OTT TV about branding, think tanks' intellectual and cultural territory, and public engagement. OTT TV offers new insights into the...
OTT TV: Rachel Buntrock, Creative director at Soapbox, on branding and public engagement
Rachel Buntrock, Creative director at Soapbox, talks to OTT TV about what branding and how it can help an organisation get to the right audience and have the impact it wants. OTT TV...
OTT TV: Lukas Hupfer, Director of foraus, on public engagement
Lukas Hupfer, Director of foraus, talks to OTT TV about foraus' experience working with the public, and how think tanks can better engage with the public to improve their research. OTT...
The 2019 On Think Tanks Conference
The 2019 OTT Conference brought together thinktankers, think tank scholars, policy entrepreneurs and think tanks funders from around the world to share experiences, present their research, co-develop solutions to...
How deeply should think tanks engage with public for influencing policy?
How deeply should think tanks engage with the larger ‘public’ in policy matters? This was a recent topic of a discussion amongst South Asian Comms Platform...
Experts from organisations with acronyms?
I think that the people of this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong … Michael...
Public engagement at the Latin America Evidence Week
As think tank professionals, it’s easy to be in tune with current events, policy research, evidence-informed policymaking, impact evaluations and the importance of...
Engaging the public: lessons from history
As Enrique Mendizabal says, think tanks and experts have all too often side-stepped the public and worked with politicians and bureaucrats, often behind closed doors. Recent events have...
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