The Research / Practice Interface for 2005: Actions for the Year and Beyond, A Stakeholder Conference from the DSA and BOND in association with NR International and ODI

This one day conference was held on June 3rd at the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African, Studies, from 9.30am to 5.30pm. Keynote Speaker was Professor Gordon Conway, Chief Scientific Adviser, DFID, who provided participants with the benefit of his many years experience at the Research / Practice interface. Other speakers were Dr John Young, Manager, RAPID Programme, ODI and Ed Hughes, RAE Manager, Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE). Click on the following link to view John Young's powerpoint presentation for the plenary session entitled 'Aim for the bulls eye: How to maximise the impact of development research' (powerpoint 1.5mb).

The conference was conceived as a forum for exploring the reality of the links between research and practice. It aimed not only to identify problems at the interface between the two, but also to propose action points for the next six months to a year, which will be followed up by BOND and the DSA. The conference was attended by 165 researchers, practitioners and policy people and it was an opportunity both to develop ideas and action points as well as to take part in strategic networking.

RAPID held a workshop session on Turning Insight into Impact. John Young and Julius Court gave a presentation to the workshop on 'Turning Insight into Impact: Approaches and Tools' (powerpoint 1.3mb).

For more information see http://www.devstud.org.uk/events/BOND-joint/research-practice.htm

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