The Unusual Suspect
Research Project about private sector involvement in knowledge brokering for international development, supported by NWO-WOTRO Science for Using Research (SURe).
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The evidence base for knowledge brokering
In October 2018, Sarah Cummings and Edith van Ewijk published an article on Expanding the evidence base on knowledge brokering in international development which presents the preliminary results of the three projects of the Science for Using Research (SURe) programme, including … Continue reading
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The private sector in international development policy
On 27 June 2018, I made a presentation in the session on What role for the private sector in challenging global inequality? at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Development Studies Association, held at the University of Manchester, UK. The session … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, critical discourse analysis, international development, knowledge, NWO, private sector, research, SDGs, Unusual suspect
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Blog: Research results from the first six months
The Unusual Suspect team took part in a one-day meeting on 3 April 2018 at the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), The Hague, where we presented our results. Given that the project started on 1 September 2017, we were effectively … Continue reading
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Blog: The missing ingredient? Adding knowledge to Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals
Sarah Cummings – Knowledge is a catalyst and an indispensable ingredient in all human progress and development. Despite this, as many commentators are discovering, knowledge is missing from Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. But recent developments seem to … Continue reading
Blog: Why the private sector?
Sarah Cummings – Knowledge brokering is seen an important way of bridging the knowledge gap between practice, policy and research in the field of international development. A considerable amount of research has focused on how academic research is taken up in … Continue reading
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