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Linking research and policyor
“If a research paper is published and no one is around to use it, does it make a sound?”
Lawrence HaddadDevelopment Studies Association of UK
and Irelandand
Institute of Development Studies
connecting and promoting the development research community
Outline1. Development studies is a normative
discipline2. No necessary conflict between
“fundamental” and “use orientated” research
3. How to create demand4. How to meet demand5. Getting research into use6. Learn about impact7. It can make a differenceconnecting and promoting the development research community
connecting and promoting the development research community
1. Normative Goals
Beliefs: survey of academics working in the US, 2003
Adapted from Coyle 2007
Ratio of Democrats to Republicans
Anthropology and Sociology 21:1
Political and Legal Philosophers
9:1
Historians 9:1
Political Scientists 6:1
Economists 3:1
connecting and promoting the development research community
Beliefs: survey of 69 economic faculty members-40 top economics departments, US Universities
Fuchs, Krueger and Poterba, 1997
Values=views on: • redistribution
• equity vs. efficiency• social vs. individual
responsibility
connecting and promoting the development research community
connecting and promoting the development research community
2. Fundamental vs. Use?Not use orientated Use orientated
Fundamental relationships explored
Bohr Pasteur
Fundamental relationships not explored
Edison
Source: D. Warsh: 2006 Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
3. Creating Demand
connecting and promoting the development research community
India is an economic powerhouse but a nutritional weakling, says economist
‘India can achieve Millennium Development Goals only in 2043'.
The Hindu Business Line September 4, 2010
Commitment Indices
Creating Demand
Creating DemandMentions of Nutrition 2005-2007
• In Speeches– DFID: 0/50 – EC: 0/28
• In Press releases– DFID: 0/197– EC: 0/239
• In policy documents– 0 in G8 2005 and 2006– 0 in European Consensus on Development
Source: Sumner, Lindstrom and Haddad 2007. IDS Sussex
connecting and promoting the development research community
Immersions
connecting and promoting the development research community
4. Meeting Demand1. Understand your audience– listen, understand incentives, anticipate issues
2. Don’t do bad research– your reputation is your key
3. Communicate well– tappers and listeners
4. Don’t lapse into advocacy– dispassionate about research,
passionate about communicating5. Don’t get into policy based evidence making– systematic reviews protect everyone
connecting and promoting the development research community
5. Getting it into use: get a model
connecting and promoting the development research community
Opportunity to influence
Source: Kingdon 1984 Streams model
Getting it into use: Credibility
connecting and promoting the development research community
Getting it into use: Persist
connecting and promoting the development research community
researcher
6. Learn about Impact
connecting and promoting the development research community
Assessing Impact of Research: attribution
connecting and promoting the development research community
Assessing Impact of Research: lags
connecting and promoting the development research community
7. It can make a difference
connecting and promoting the development research community
Research papers in
Lancet 2008
Food price crisis 2007-8
IDS/Save UK report 2008
UK Parliamentary
committees 2008-9
DFID Nutrition Strategy 2010
Irish Hunger Task Force
2008
Solution stream
Political stream
Problem stream
Vision: Accelerated Global Poverty Reduction
Mission: To connect and promote development research and
teaching to increase its impact
connecting and promoting the development research community
Development Studies Association