Can Social Network Analysis Explain How Research is Constructed and Used?
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 26/03/2019

There has been a rapid growth in funding focused on evidence use and initiatives designed to strengthen the links between research and policy. Lately, this field has become increasingly cognisant of the social and interactive nature of evidence into policy processes.

Speakers

Louise Clark (IDS/Impact Initiative)
Brokering research and policy networks – mapping relationships emerging across a knowledge community

Nasreen Jessani (Johns Hopkins University/Stellenbosch University)
Academic knowledge brokers : Using network analysis to explore multiplex relationships, networks and policy influence in Kenya

Jordan Tchilingirian (Bath University)
How think tanks construct knowledge – a quantitative network analysis

Chair: James Georgalakis (IDS)