[Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared on the LSE Impact Blog and is reposted under Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. Effective communication of research is often cited as being most important to gaining the attention of policymakers. This arguably underestimates the sheer…
Think tanks need to communicate well, to succeed. Much of the emphasis is often on the website, or on high-gloss publications. At the same time, much other communication also matters: emails, memos, letters, reports, press releases, minutes of meetings, and…
At Politics & Ideas we are convinced that doing high quality and policy relevant research is just as important as communicating or disseminating it effectively to ensure its impact on policy. That is why in 2015 we launched the online…
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Agnes A.S. Titriku, Program Manager, African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), Ghana, and it was originally published at INASP‘s blog Practising Development.] Staff members from three parliaments (Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe) are…
2016 was the launch year for the On Think Tanks School. It reached over 160 participants from all around the world. Learning from this experience, the On Think Tanks School is back with a new course and promising updates! Trainers are…
Every year On Think Tanks will open its doors to young and promising think tank leaders to co-develop a new global leadership paradigm. Join and innovate within a unique exchange space! Why Integral Leaders for Global Challenges? No one would deny…
2016 has been a very fruitful year for P&I: we have done and learned a lot as we share in the attached report. Thanks for your support in many ways. However, we are also aware of the increasing complexity and…
Are you a policymaker, a researcher, a capacity building expert or a donor interested in better understanding how context affects the interaction between knowledge and policy? Join our free webinar series where we will explore in depth the six main…
[Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared on the LSE Impact Blog and is reposted under Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. Knowledge exchange and impact activities often have to negotiate, incorporate and synthesise different kinds of expertise. Mona Sloane looks at how the Configuring…
[Editor’s note: This post is the seventh of a series produced by Andrea Ordóñez and Leandro Echt from Politics & Ideas to share what we learned through the online course Doing policy relevant research, ran for the first time in the first quarter…
