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For World Health Day, OTT Talks about scientific advisory systems and the global pandemic, with OTT's Marcela Morales and Enrique Mendizabal. Read the full report: ‘Scientific advisory...
The International Science Council (ISC) is a non-governmental organisation with a unique global membership that brings together 40 international scientific Unions and Associations and over 140 national and regional...
The Environmental Health Group seeks a dynamic Research Uptake Officer for the SHARE research consortium programme. SHARE aims to generate knowledge to improve systems for sanitation and hygiene delivery. The...
Vox has recently published an excellent piece on The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists. This is worth reading for anyone interested in the...
Most of us have to write formally as part of our work and, as we know, effective writing gets results. Few of us, however, have been trained to write effectively and many of us see writing as...
It is always heartening to read about a developing country government investing in the production of high quality knowledge and education. Chile’s recent efforts in...
At the end of October, the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) awarded the ESRC STEPS Centre its prestigious new Ziman award for...
Think tanks and research programmes are increasingly turning to the web as a channel of communication. They are setting up blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and signing up to as many...
Ryan Meyer has published an article Nature that considers the true value of US climate science that is particularly relevant to the contribution that think tanks can make. It starts with a...
After a visit to CIGI to discuss the value of think tanks I blogged about Roger Martin's presentation and idea of the 'logical leap of the mind'. He has published an...
A few months ago I had a discussion with a colleague about how to support research and policymaking in a country without having to pick 'winners' -i.e. funding a...
Chris Mooney's article (The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science) on motivated reasoning must strike a chord with the onthinktanks' audience. Reasoning is actually...