Publications
I’ve published a number of papers over the last 15 years. These are listed below organised by my three key services, They can also be found on Research gate, by clicking on the button below.
Leadership, organisational and network development
2023: Mine Action and the Resilience of Communities to Climate Change. This study assesses the integration of climate resilience within policies and strategies of humanitarian mine action organisations
2019: OTT-TTI Fellowship Programme Final technical report. This reviews a year long leadership programme for mid-career think tankers from Latin America, Asia and Africa
2019: Complexity, contradictions and struggle: facilitating change in the international development sector. This paper describes the challenges of promoting organisational change in a UK based international development think tank
2018: Negotiating difference in an interdisciplinary collaboration: Lessons from a small islands developing states resilience project. This report reflects on the collaborative practices of a group of researchers convened to undertake an interdisciplinary project.
2012: A review of the evidence based policy in development network. This paper reviews a the work of a network of individuals interested in promoting evidence based policies in the Global South.
2012: Capacity, complexity and consulting: Lessons from managing capacity development projects. This paper reflects on what capacity is and how it develops; identifies approaches used to promote capacity improvement processes; and assesses what this means for funding practices.
Influencing policy and practice
2022: A review of the Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world. This assesses the policy impact of a Lancet Commission.
2014: The Rapid Outcome Mapping Approach: a guide to policy engagement and policy influence
2012: Public engagement in international animal welfare: Reflections and cases. An evaluation of the Wellcome Trust’s Livestock for Live public engagement programme.
2012: Lessons from deliberative public engagement work: A scoping study.
2011: Strengthening World Vision Policy Advocacy: A guide to developing advocacy strategies
2011: Communicating Research: A beginner's guide for researchers in Vietnam
2008: Influencing International Aid Policy. A background paper ahead of a strategic planning workshop for the Forum on the Future of Aid (FFA), which aimed to increase the impact of Global South led research on reform of the international aid architecture
2007: Assessing Key Stakeholder Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Multilateral Organisations. This pilot project aimed to understand preferences for which multilateral organisations should disburse additional aid
Strengthening innovation systems
2021: A scan of the Transparency, Participation and Accountability Landscape
2020: Activists and policy experts: Exploring think tank engagement with social movements. This study reviews the relationship between researchers and activists across a range of contexts.
2019: Continuity and change in Indonesia's social protection sector. This explores the policy context in Indonesia’s social protection sector
2018: Strengthening research systems: concepts, actions and actors. This sets out frameworks, programmes and key actors in relation to strengthening research systems in a global South context
2018: A Review of DDP's Contribution to the 2017 Kenyan Elections Deepening Democracy Programme (DDP)
2018: The role of scientific evidence during the 2015 Nepal earthquake relief efforts
2018: Political and economic transition in Vietnam and its impact on think tank traditions. This paper reflects on how think tanks or research centres have evolved as the political context has evolved since economic transition in the 1980s
2018: Policy, change and paradox in Indonesia: Implications for the use of knowledge. This paper explores the policy and political context in Indonesia and the role of knowledge through the exploration of three case studies.
2017: Improving effectiveness of evidence use to support Zimbabwe's youth. This study assesses work with Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Youth to improve the quality of their decision making
2017: The development and use of a common approach to community based disaster risk reduction in Nepal.
2017: Enhancing the use of evidence in South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs: Lessons learned. This report assesses what was planned, what actually happened, the outcomes that emerged and the lessons learnt.
2016: The Acquisition of Research Knowledge by National-Level Decision Makers in Indonesia
2016: Guidelines and good practices for evidence-informed policy-making in a government department
2016: Understanding the organisational context for evidence-informed policy-making
2016: Evidence and policy in South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs. This report explores decision making and the use of evidence in a South African government department
2016: The Indonesian Knowledge Sector: A Contextual Analysis. This report provides a baseline assessment of Indonesia’s knowledge sector to inform the work of the Knowledge Sector Initiative - a long term programme to improve the production and use of knowledge in priority policy areas and in development planning processes.
2016: Earthquake science in DRR policy and practice in Nepal. This paper aims to understand the role that earthquake science plays in Disaster Risk Reduction policy and practice in Nepal
2015: Promoting sustainable development in South Africa: Key issues. This paper sets out the policy context in South Africa’s sustainable development sector, key initiatives, outcomes and challenges.
2014: Assessing the uptake of strategic evaluations in EU development co-operation - final report. This report examines the factors promoting and inhibiting the uptake of evidence from strategic evaluations in the EU's development co-operation programme.
2014: Development assistance: approaches and key issues. This literature review was commissioned to support the Independent Commission on Aid Impact (ICAI)in reviewing the way the UK Department for International Development (DFID) articulates, defines and prioritises the impacts it seeks to achieve; the approaches it uses to deliver those impacts and how well it does so
2014: Social assistance policymaking in Indonesia: Opportunities for, and constraints to, promoting reform. This report provides a review of policymaking processes and the role of knowledge within and across the main government agencies working specifically in the social assistance sub-sector
2013: Providing policy advice in Vietnam: reform of the planning system. This reviews the work of Development Partners in Vietnam to influence reform of the development planning system.
2013: Promoting Business Responsibility in India: Assessing the development, and supporting the uptake of voluntary guidelines. This reviews the work of the Indian Government in facilitating ethical behaviour amongst businesses in India
2013: Not just a beautiful flower? Knowledge, information and economic policymaking in Vietnam. This report assesses economic policymaking in Vietnam and the use of knowledge
2012: Written evidence submitted to the Science and Technology Committee on Science and International Development. This is a Submission to the UK House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee on science capacity building in developing countries
2011: Think tanks in sub-Saharan Africa: How the political landscape has influenced their origins. This paper explores the relationship between think-tanks and politics in sub-Saharan Africa
2011: Producing home grown solutions: Think tanks and knowledge networks in international development
2011: Linkages between researchers and legislators in developing countries A scoping study
2011: The politics of Evo Morales' rise to power in Bolivia: The role of social movements and think tanks
2010: Think tanks in East and Southeast Asia: Bringing politics back into the picture. This explores the relationship between politics and the emergence of think tanks in East and Southeast Asia.
2010: Think Tanks and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy. This book chapter reflects on think tank development in a number of national and regional contexts outside rich industrialised countries
2009: Think tanks in post-conflict contexts: towards evidence- informed governance reform. This report explores the role of knowledge in advancing effective governance principles and practices in countries that have recently experienced conflict
2009: Knowledge, policy and power: six dimensions of the knowledge- development policy interface
2009: Will the US lead on international development? These opinions by ODI researchers set out key challenges for the Barrack Obama, the incoming US President – challenges that are critical to the reduction of poverty and the reduction of suffering in the developing world
2009: Improving Impact Evaluation Production and Use. This report explores how impact evaluations are produced and used in the Global development sector.
