Decolonising research capacity development

The capacity to produce and use knowledge remains low across many countries in the Global South. However, efforts to build, strengthen or develop research capacity have produced mixed...

Research methodologies: context and ethical considerations amid COVID-19

COVID-19 has renewed our focus on the importance of context in research. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a wave of disruptions across a multitude of spectrums, which...

ChatGPT: a game changer for the knowledge industry?

Like millions around the world, I spent the holiday period playing with ChatGPT . It is a large generative pretrained transformer (GPT) language model developed by...

Candid talk about funding: David Sasaki, Hewlett Foundation

New Right think tanks in the US

The expanding population of think tanks in the United States contains a new, more politically committed, group. This comparatively young group is less driven by the goal of basing public...

The rise of the activist funder and hope for a more moderate 2023

I noticed a pattern among the end-of-year reflections of my peers: 2022 was bittersweet. It was a great year professionally for many, including OTT (see the end of the...

World Cup armbands won’t change the world

FIFA is like the United Nations, but with more countries. It has 211 affiliated associations versus 193 UN member countries. There are no other power-players more global than these two. No...

Same goals, different hurdles: Understanding knowledge translation in the Global South

This article was originally published by Transforming Evidence and can be viewed here. Interviews with those working on knowledge translation in the Global South...

Getting your nonprofit communications right

This article was originally published by India Development Review on 2 December 2022 and can be viewed here. Today, communications should be an integral part of every organisation’s...

Knowledge translation in the Global South: A language perspective

Anywhere in the world, knowledge translation (KT) is facilitated through a process of communicating messages to an audience, who will ultimately use that information to...

The future of evidence-informed decision-making practice: redefining perspectives for improved impact

As a growing multi-disciplinary field, evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) needs to draw out its unique qualities, irrespective of the perspectives from which they...

Are greater diversity, participation, and inclusivity compatible with greater impact?

Words have meaning beyond their definitions The public sphere today is terminally fragmented. Gone are the days when the debate focused on what to do based on the facts...