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Forum Discussions General Making our research more relevant to policy makers

1/14/2010 6:32 AM

	MEGreene
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Making our research more relevant to policy makers

At so many conferences, not just PopPov meetings, we wrestle at the end with linking our findings to issues of concern to policy makers. In this meeting, we're taking this challenge on earlier, which is great. Let's talk concretely of alternative audiences or "consumers" of the information and recommendations we're generating. Into whose hands would you like to place your research findings?

1/15/2010 12:34 PM

	RNugent
3 posts
www.cgdev.org

Re: Making our research more relevant to policy makers

Hi,

You've made a couple important points here. The first is that we talk talk talk about this issue of relevance to policymakers. I think it would be nice if we can draw some useful lessons from experience and I hope the session at the PopPov conference with policymakers will give us that. Second, is that I often feel an uncomfortable tension between the policy-relevant research -- if it is indeed definable -- and researcher's research. And by that I don't simply mean something published in a top journal or full of econometric tricks; but (though not mutually exclusive) I mean the type of stuff that really makes an impact on a research community, and then gets replicated and carried through to seminar and classrooms. Is there no way to avoid that uncomfortable tension? Dare I say incompatibility?

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