Editing in a Think Tank: a Challenge and a Way Out
Editing involves performing checks and corrections of various aspects of a document, ranging from grammar and spelling, construction, typography, readability, factual accuracy, etc., to...
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Monitoring, evaluation and learning for think tanks
Challenges and possibilities of monitoring, evaluation and learning in think tanks Measuring the results of the work of think tanks poses many challenges; the results are...
Data visualisation: how numbers tell a story
Data is not boring. Data can explain social and economic trends and start new conversations. Data can inspire new ideas, and it can test how they work. Data can challenge those in power. Data...
Samar Verma, Senior Program Specialist for the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) in South Asia
Samar Verma is a Senior Program Specialist of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) for the South Asia Region. As such, he is based at the International Development Research...
When foundations meet think tanks: how to know what wonks bring to the table?
A short personal genesis of the project Right before I embarked into my graduate adventure of studying think tanks at Georgetown University in the Summer of 2014,...
A conversation with Katy Owen from CoVi, the first visual think tank in the UK
Common Vision UK (CoVi) describes itself as the first visual think tank in the UK and they “explore, develop and share innovations in policy and practice using visual...
Five ways to be successful in long-form: Examples to inspire think tanks and research organisations
For us comms types, the world of digital long-form publishing feels like a veritable playground. The PDF dims in comparison to parallax scrolling, looped background videos...
Strategic planning: it’s just as much about the present as the future
Over the last seven years, I’ve been involved in numerous workshops helping think tanks do strategic planning for policy engagement. But I’ve found that, after the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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