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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...
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Two weeks ago, London elected the Conservative politician, Boris Johnson, to his second term as mayor of the city. There was a notably low turnout, perhaps because the...
This month, Policy Exchange, a think tank in the UK, is hosting another of its policy fight clubs: Policy Fight Club - In the age of austerity we cannot afford to ring fence the...
Michael Harris from New Think Tank has posted and interesting analysis on the use (or not) of twitter by think tanks in the UK. There are also some interesting comments made to the post it...
Tristan Stubbs pointed them out to me the other day. Spads (or Special Advisers) are often absent from any conversation about or planning of influencing strategies. I...
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Prospect Think Tank of the Year Award 2011. Here is Prospect's own account of the event; some extracts below: Assessing the...
Tonight was the Prospect Magazine Think Tank of the Year Awards 2011. Bronwen Maddox, Editor of Prospect presided and Vince Cable, MP, handed out the awards. The full list of winners and...
A few weeks ago Goran Buldioski published a post on transparency and I commented on an article by George Monbiot on think tanks' transparency. Monbiot's article sparked some debate on...
Simon Maxwell, former director of the Overseas Development Institute, is now a Senior Research Associate of the ODI, he chairs the Climate Change and Development Knowledge Network and...
Andy Williamson, writing for The Guardian offers an interesting view in the world of British think tanks. Does it offer a warning for think tanks elsewhere? According to Williamson, think...
Last weekend, the Independent published a review of the most influential think tanks in the UK policy scene. Politics? Nothing that a bit of thinking can't cure provides some interesting...