Seminar: The STEPS Centre and the Participate Initiative – addressing fundamental questions in the post-2015 debate

Room 221 IDS, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

This seminar is an opportunity for discussion between different areas of work at the Institute of Development Studies aiming to address some of the fundamental questions surrounding the creation of a post-2015 development framework. The STEPS Centre is currently undertaking work around aligning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS ) and post 2015 framework processes, and Fellows in...

STEPS Seminar: Boru Douthwaite on Using Theory of Change to Lever Change: Experience from the CGIAR

Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

‘Using Theory of Change to Lever Change: Experience from the CGIAR’ Boru Douthwaite, Principal Scientist on the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) at WorldFish Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6mpqTrFLM About this seminar Working with staff and stakeholders to think through how research can bring about development outcomes can change how projects and partnerships are planned,...

Integrating Impact Planning into Research Projects: Reflections from the STEPS Centre

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

STEPS/CDI Seminar Adrian Ely, Head of Impact and Engagement, STEPS Centre and Nathan Oxley, Communications Officer, STEPS Centre Researchers, along with development programmes, are increasingly called on to demonstrate the ‘impact’ of their research. There are many different ways to frame, define and conceptualise impact, and many possible responses to it. If impact is to...

STEPS Seminar: Where are the missing co-authors? Authorship practices in participatory research

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Join us for a STEPS Seminar with Louise Fortmann (University of California at Berkeley), on 3 April 2017 at the Institute of Development Studies. The increase in publications based on participatory research has raised questions about crediting the contributions of non-academic collaborators. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, trends and patterns in authorship and acknowledgment practices...