Damien King, Executive Director at CaPRI (part 1 of 2)
Part 1 of 2: On Research, Communications and Credibility. Read part 2. Damien King is the Executive Director at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI), as well...
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Doing policy relevant research in South Asia
On Think Tanks, the Center for Study of Science Technology and Policy (CSTEP) and the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) invite mid-to-senior level researchers and think tankers in South Asia to apply for the course: Doing...
Thinktanking in environments with low value assigned to research
Doing research for a think tank or a civil society organisation in the Balkans on issues of democratic governance, I have found myself, at various times, wondering...
Crafting policy relevant research: thinking strategically about research
The first round of the Doing policy relevant research course has finished successfully, and it has been inspiring. Just over a year ago, we had written about how...
Choosing to innovate on your research agenda
In seeking to develop new policy relevant research agendas you may find yourself encouraged to think about policy problems differently. This may inspire you to innovate, but before you do,...
Methodological choices to inform policy
There is a persistent perception that there is a tension between rigorous research and research being relevant, thus increasing the chance of having an impact. Of course, we understand the...
Understanding policy problems and their implications in your research decisions
In our previous articles we have covered different aspects of the design, validation and development of a research agenda. One may have broad topics and focus areas...
Drafting and validating your research agenda
In the second article of this series we put forward seven principles for policy relevant research identified in existing literature and through practice. In this article we focus on the...
What are the principles of policy relevant research?
As we stated in the first post of this series, our approach is based on the premise that researchers and research institutions that do good research for policymaking...
Individual and institutional research agendas: how different are they?
Why should one discuss individual and institutional research agendas when talking about policy relevance? From my experience working at and with think tanks, we have...
Why do we need to analyse our context to design a research agenda?
In our previous article we introduced the seven principles for policy relevant research identified in existing literature and through practice. The first one referred to...
The Post-2015 debate: relevant trends for think tanks
The Southern Voice Initiative, which seeks to link southern think tanks with the global development debate, is based on the idea that strengthening this relationship...
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