The ODI Communications team aims to enhance the impact of ODI's research on development policy and practice, and ODI’s reputation and image through efficient and effective internal and external communication.
It is doing this through:
- Cross-promotion and increased ‘packaging’ of materials to combine the best thinking from across ODI. An example of this is our strategic engagement around the Development Progress Stories and Millennium Development Report Card, which provide robust and accessible information on national-level progress in different countries and have received worldwide media coverage.
- Live web streaming of ODI events to take them worldwide; viewers are now logging in from across the globe.
- An emphasis on working with major media outlets, with recent articles appearing in The Times, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Observer and The Guardian, and interviews on BBC World, BBC Radio 5 Live, Al Jazeera, CNN, CNBC and more.
- New online communications channels to reach audiences outside of the website. Our Twitter account offers updates on ODI’s online activities, with Twitter users re-posting links to ODI event streams, blogs and media hits; Facebook is lowering the barriers to interaction, with a wider audience can comment on our work.
- Knowledge-sharing activities with researchers worldwide. Since 2009, for example, team members have been in Cairo, Colombo, Lima, Mexico and Nairobi for research communication workshops.
Our 50th anniversary year – running from June 2010 to June 2011 – enabled the Communications team and the Institute as a whole to reflect on ODI’s contribution to development debates since it was created in 1960. Anniversary activities ranged from the production of a timeline of key development milestones – including ODI’s role in them – over the years, to a library of film interviews with development and humanitarian experts, and the digitisation of our back catalogue of publications dating back to the 1960s. We also produced a short animation setting out clearly what ODI does and how, and ended the anniversary year with the first ODI Development Debate, ‘International development: the next 20 years’, chaired by Jon Snow.
The team
Events Coordinator
RAPID - Communications Officer
Raphaelle Faure
Programme Officer - European Report on Development
Publications Manager
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Jo manages ODI's editorial outputs, including the Institute's key publication series, peer reviewed journals, annual reports and standalone publications.
Director of Communications
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Gillian brings more than 25 years blue-chip strategic brand building and integrated marketing communications experience in Publishing to ODI. Prior to this, Gillian worked as a Branding Consultant for Macmillan Group Publishers on a range of projects aimed at enriching the digital user experience and she held various senior Marketing positions at the Financial Times building the FT brand in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Sophy Kershaw
Publications Manager
Ruth Larbey
Communications Assistant - Publications
Communications Officer
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Maryam is the Research Uptake Manager for the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium(SLRC)which looks at how basic services, livelihoods and social protection are provided in conflict affected situations.
Communications Manager - Digital and Events
Mwananchi Communications Officer
Media & Public Affairs Officer/IEDG Communications Officer
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Jonathan has worked on a number of successful media and Parliamentary campaigns. Whilst working for Sharon Hodgson MP he helped promote the idea of universal free school meals through the British media, leading to the rollout of nationwide pilots. He also played a pivotal role in the passing of the Special Educational Needs (Information) Act in 2008 and has an in-depth understanding of the UK legislative process.
Gail Wilson
Communications Assistant: Digital and Media
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Related links
On the ODI website
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