Everything I needed to know about online content I learned from making mixtapes
I was never particularly good at making mixtapes—my teenage musical tastes were too uncultured, my town too small to support more than your standard country/classic...
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Making research accessible to inform better policy decisions
We can’t expect policymakers to just know what policies are best for a given context – to make better decisions, they need evidence. This is why local data and...
Reflections on the accessibility of research knowledge for policymaking in Peru
A common problem in the research to policy nexus is that research often “stays on the shelves” and does not have an impact outside of academia. Policymaking needs...
Facing complex contexts? Five strategies for impact
Think tanks can influence policy in a great number of ways. There is not a single approach – and there are certainly no full-proof strategies. I was recently asked...
Four questions to assess your research communications impact
Research can have an impact. But only if we get our research to the right people, at the right time, and in a way they can relate to. Considering how vital...
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...
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...
Understanding policy problems and their implications in your research decisions
In our previous articles we have covered different aspects of the design, validation and development of a research agenda. One may have broad topics and focus areas...
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...
Beyond the artifact: rethinking the research output
Many interventions to increase research impact have received a lot of attention recently, including: Liberating research from PDFs; Changing the writing style from...
The role of narrative change in influencing policy
‘Narrative change’ seems to be a catch-phrase at present. A number of foundations – including the Open Society Foundations - have engaged in narrative change work and a number of...
Linking research and policy: thinktankers as boundary workers
We discussed the concept of a boundary worker in a series of posts about the often used supply-and-demand of research model for supporting research uptake. At the time,...
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