Research uptake: what is it and can it be measured?
Over the years I have come across many definitions of what research uptake is and is not. I find the term rather confusing and limiting -like most jargon. It creates an...
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Communication as Organisation: Implications for Policy Research
In this post we hope to briefly introduce new ways of thinking about communication and working with it to understand human behavior, social change and policy reform. In...
Improving the quality of a think tank’s publications: Lessons from CIPPEC
The Impact of a Good Publication Policy After reading Enrique’s post on quality control, I had a discussion with Dolores Arrieta, Coordinator of Communication at...
Supporting think tanks to develop their communication capacities: organisations not projects
Over the last 6 months or so I have been working with four Latin American think tanks helping them to develop or strengthen their organisational communication strategies....
Supporting think tanks: Advice from the think tanks themselves
Last week I spent a few days in Jakarta participating in a conference focused on think tanks. About 50 organisations that could be categorised as (but are not necessarily)...
More communication options and tools: semi academic journals
Continuing with our communication options series, we have now compiled a list of semi academic journals from several known think tanks around the world. Semi academic...
“A policy brief is a piece of paper. It doesn’t DO anything on its own”
Quite some time ago, Jeff Knezovich reported on a study that was due to be published: Should think tanks write policy briefs? In this post he wrote something that we...
Communication options for think tanks: channels and tools
Somehow we always come back to the same channels and (increasingly) to some of the same tools. I have been 'collecting' some of these over the last year. And every...
INASP’s reflections on lessons from recent research communication capacity building experiences
This is the third in a series of posts in response to a paper that Enrique and Martine produced after evaluating a capacity building for research communication project...
Capacity development: it is time to think about new ways of generating and sharing knowledge
I am not an expert on capacity development per se but I've been a practitioner from CIPPEC of a combination of activities during the last years in Latin America which...
Research communications support: why do donors, think tanks and consultants keep making the same mistakes?
Building capacity to develop research communications skills and competencies for policy influence is not a new thing. There are a multitude of players involved in the...
Social Media and think tanks: lessons from London Thinks
Conversations about the use of social media bear more than a passing resemblance to teenage chat about sex –we’re all talking about it, a few of us are doing it and...