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The first On Think Tanks Conference in the US will be held June 25 2019 at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC. The conference will bring together think tank scholars, policy entrepreneurs and funders to...
The presence/extent of political will is a key determinant of the success or failure of policies. It is captured by the capability of political actors to achieve the...
How deeply should think tanks engage with the larger ‘public’ in policy matters? This was a recent topic of a discussion amongst South Asian Comms Platform...
Tom Hashemi, director of the communications consultancy We are Flint, will present their latest research exploring the UK public's attitudes towards policy influencing organisations,...
In 2016 the idea of the Open Think Tank Directory was born: to create a public directory to benefit the entire think tank community. The directory would organise the scattered...
As think tank professionals, it’s easy to be in tune with current events, policy research, evidence-informed policymaking, impact evaluations and the importance of...
The University of Nottingham has embarked on an ambitious programme to better showcase its high-quality research. In 2017 the University launched its Research Vision,...
As Enrique Mendizabal says, think tanks and experts have all too often side-stepped the public and worked with politicians and bureaucrats, often behind closed doors. Recent events have...
To whom should we disseminate our research? Audiences can be policymakers, a particular community, academia and/or the private sector. Engaging each stakeholder group requires a different...
The Think Tank Initiative (TTI) introduced the Policy Engagement and Communication Programme (PEC) to primarily support think tanks to produce, synthesise and communicate...
Elections are critical milestones in the political cycle of any country. They also represent a unique -yet highly charged- policy window. But there are other highly...
When I joined the CAPRI team in early 2018 as the director of research, I began to explore an international think tank network for us to join. Founded in 2007, CAPRI—the Caribbean Policy...