When I found out that TTIX would focus on research quality, I was quite excited (maybe you have seen my previous posts that focus on...

[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published by Maria Urbina-Fauser, Programme Officer at the Think Tank Initiative IDRC...

Introduction The impact of global economy brought about a drastic change after e-learning came into focus in India. Earlier people,...

[Editor’s note: this post announces the call for applications for an online course targeted to policymakers in Latin America on the use...

In ‘The Well-informed. Citizen: An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge’, Alfred Schutz (1974) states: “… expect from the...

In the first part of this post, we concentrated in two groups of factors that influence the use of evidence in policy making. On the one...

Incorporating evidence into decision making processes is not a  linear task. On the one hand, evidence coexists with other various...

As you may have noticed, my last blogs have been devoted to the work of researchers who want to impact policy or social change more...

[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...

Canadian academic research in all disciplines is among the best in the world but Canada is not extracting full social and economic value...

[Editor’s Note: This interview is part of a wider series of talks with current and former officials, politicians and researchers from...

By Denise Krebs under CC license In June 2014 the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) commissioned Politics&Ideas to undertake a ‘light touch...

Courtesy of nero vivo under CC at flickr.com This is the second post of a series focusing on how we can better incorporate the complexity...

[Editor’s note: This post is the fourth of a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we...

By Michael Heiss under CC license This is the first post of a series focusing on how we can better incorporate the complexity paradigm as...

As part of the development of an online course at P&I, we have been reviewing a broad set of available resources (papers, toolkits,...

Development experiences from many Arab countries show that the achievement of development in different sectors depends on the practical...

[Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we...

Thanks to the support of Vayayiko Grants from INASP, at P&I we have recently started a new project to enhance current capacity of...

[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...