Panel 1a – The long and winding road: from research to policy
Presentation/s:
Chair: Sakuntala Akmeemana, Principal Specialist – Governance, Development Policy Division, DFAT
The direct, indirect and unintended routes to change: confessions of a research program
Chris Adams, Senior Learning and Outreach Advisor, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University; Claire Mcloughlin, Lecturer, and David Hudson, Professor, University of Birmingham
Challenges and opportunities in brokering research and knowledge for impact in international development
Andrea Babon, Senior Research Fellow, Lisa Denney, Senior Research Fellow, and Paul Kelly, Research Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
A snapshot of practice in the development sector: research communications and uptake
Melissa Kamp, Principal – Research Monitoring and Evaluation, Coffey International Development; and Jenny Vaccari, former Network Communications Coordinator, Research for Development Impact Network
The politics and practice of stakeholder engagement in research processes
Chris Roche, Director, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University; and Sandy Oliver, Professor, University College London