Volume 43. Issue 5: New Roles for Communication in Development?
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Introduction: Is Development Research Communication Coming of Age?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)In this article we reflect on three themes that highlight current trends in research communication for development and, in turn, shape this issue of the IDS Bulletin . We argue that shifts in the sociopolitical and ... -
Deliberation, Dialogue and Debate: Why Researchers need to Engage with Others to Address Complex Issues
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)As societies have become more differentiated, policy issues are increasingly being analysed using concepts and ideas from the complexity sciences. Policy change involving diverse stakeholders interacting with one another ... -
Stimulating Demand for Research Evidence: What Role for Capacity?building?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)There has been a great deal of interest in recent years in supporting evidence?informed policymaking in developing countries. In particular, there have been efforts to build the capacity of researchers and research ... -
This Research does not Influence Policy
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article concerns a study whose questions, methods and analytical conclusions were the work of a group of Karimojong in Uganda. Its report included text and photographs, plain language, direct voices and faces, and ... -
Understanding Context in Learning?centred Approaches to Climate Change Communication
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Communication on climate change research has long been dominated by top?down delivery of information aimed at informing on future climate scenarios and climate?related events. However, emphasis in this field is slowly ... -
Approaches to Development Research Communication
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article traces the co?evolution between models of research communication and development. It looks at how creative and visual methods fit into this trajectory. It argues that the current growth in the accessibility ... -
Cartographers, Conciliators and Catalysts: Understanding the Communicative Roles of Researchers
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)A review of case studies from a global, ten-year research project coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies suggests that previous efforts to understand the value of research for promoting social change has ... -
Advances in Knowledge Brokering in the Agricultural Sector: Towards Innovation System Facilitation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)The process of knowledge brokering in the agricultural sector, where it is generally called agricultural extension, has been studied since the 1950s. While agricultural extension initially employed research push models, ... -
Seeing ‘With my Own Eyes’: Strengthening Interactions between Researchers and Schools
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)We describe a participatory action research (PAR) project aimed at initiating a schools project as a component of the wider Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)–Wellcome Trust Research Programme's (KWTRP) community ... -
Passing on the Hot Potato: Lessons from a Policy Brief Experiment
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Research has potential to improve the lives of the world's vulnerable people – if it is appropriately referred to in decision?making processes. While there is a significant industry of activity each year to communicate ... -
Changing the Financial Landscape of Africa: An Unusual Story of Evidence?informed Innovation, Intentional Policy Influence and Private Sector Engagement
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article uses the Steven Framework to show the influence of research on the policies and practices of mobile money transfer and mobile phone?enabled payments in Africa. While it is a much?discussed subject, few people ... -
Radio, ICT Convergence and Knowledge Brokerage: Lessons from Sub?Saharan Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article examines the changing role of radio for development in sub?Saharan Africa as ‘new’ Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) increasingly enter the information landscape. Grounded in the empirical ... -
Reframing Digital Storytelling as Co?creative
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This study of the digital storytelling (DST) project at the South Asia Hub of the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium examines the capacity of DST practice to articulate women's diverse experiences ... -
Changing Focus: Exploring Images of Women and Empowerment in Egypt
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)In moving away from prescriptive one?way communications exercises, participatory development communications use better strategies to engage communities and capture nuance. This article examines a communications case study ... -
Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh: Experiences, Challenges and Possibilities
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article reflects on a digital storytelling project undertaken for research, communication, and advocacy purposes in Bangladesh. The project trained young women from different regions of the country to make digital ... -
Real World: Empowering Representations of Women through Film
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article makes an argument for the added value of the use of documentary film in development research communication. It draws broadly on the specific experience of the Real World film scheme developed by the Pathways ... -
Emerging Implications of Open and Linked Data for Knowledge Sharing in Development
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Movements towards open data involve the publication of datasets (from metadata on publications, to research, to operational project statistics) online in standard formats and without restrictions on reuse. A number of open ...