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Sarah Cummings 
Barbara Regeer 
Suzanne Kiwanuka
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Looking forward to the Broker Day!
The Unusual Suspect team are looking forward to this year’s Broker Day which will take place on 6 November 2019 (13:00–18:00) in the Hague at the Bazaar of Ideas, organized by The Broker: Connecting world’s of knowledge. The Broker is … Continue reading
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Most read article
The article published by the Unusual Suspect team in the ISI-ranked journal Information Development in October 2018 has been identified as the journal’s most read article, having been read 556 times since in the last 6 months. It can be found … Continue reading
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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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Tagged 2018, international development, knowledge, knowledge brokering, NWO, private sector, projects, research, SURe, Unusual suspect
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Breaking down silos in international development
On 15 October 2018, a new blog Breaking down silos is the first step towards fruitful policy making was published on the Broker Online by Suzanne Kiwanuka of the Unusual suspects team. In the blog, Suzanne Kiwanuka emphasizes the need … 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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Tagged 2017, international development, knowledge brokering, NWO, private sector, projects, research, SURe, Unusual suspect, WOTRO
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