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A new book, Transforming Research Excellence: New Ideas from the Global South, highlights gaps and shortcomings in how the notion of ‘excellence’ is currently applied...
Germany-based Social Science Works has developed a Second Opinions service to help decision makers evaluate the quality of social science research and policy proposals. What does it...
The 1st On Think Tanks Conference is an opportunity for OTT Team Members and collaborators to come together to learn about their work and seek out possible opportunities for collaboration over the following...
IDRC's Evaluation Division has developed a new and exiting Research Quality evaluation approach that brings together several bodies of knowledge on the subject. The approach, named:...
As a policy research organisation, CSTEP is in the business of producing large amounts of written communication. In order to improve the quality of its research products, such as reports, policy briefs, articles,...
In this post Andrea Ordoñez writes about research quality. She identified three levels of responsibility: the individual, the organisation, and society. She argues that...
Last month I visited the Think Tank Fund in Hungary. It was my first time there and I got to meet the whole team (I think). The whole week turned out to be a mini festival of discussion...
The Impact of a Good Publication Policy After reading Enrique’s post on quality control, I had a discussion with Dolores Arrieta, Coordinator of Communication at...
The issue of quality control comes up time and time again in my work. This is something think tanks are constantly asking about and some have found interesting solutions to it. Some keep it...
This is the third set of videos from the TTI Exchange sessions. This panel was about reviewing the lessons learned from institutional approaches on sustaining quality in social policy...
Dan Farber, professor of law asks: Who took the “think” out of think tanks? He visited several (US) conservative think tanks' websites and found little research on...
Lately there has been a rather lively discussion about the role and value of think tanks in the UK. George Monbiot, a journalist who often writes for The Guardian, has...