Changing Lives: Making Research Real

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Stephan

Our colleague Christina Lakatos just shared an interesting initiative of DfID Research and the InterPress Service (IPS) to better communicate development research findings.
The main page of Changing Lives explains:
Research findings may be widely published in scientific journals, peer-reviewed and academically admired — but are they filtering through to the public, and bringing about tangible improvements [...]

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Do you factcheck news stories that confirm your beliefs?

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Stephan

Environmental Graffiti posted an interesting story about a hoax written by Mark Twain in 1862 about the discovery of a petrified man. The story was widely copied and reprinted even though basic facts were evidently wrong.
Why am I sharing this? Besides being amusing, I think it teaches a valuable lesson about our predisposition to accept [...]

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Three lessons from a year of teaching 2.0 to researchers

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Pete Shelton

The purpose of this post is to share with you three lessons we wish someone had told us a year ago. But then again, what’s the point of teaching if you don’t learn something for yourself?
Last summer, some colleagues at IFPRI and I decided to begin offering a series of weekly trainings aimed at teaching [...]

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