1. Linking research and policy or If a research paper is published and no one is around to use it, does it make a sound? Lawrence Haddad Development Studies Association of UK and Ireland and Institute of Development Studies connecting and promoting the development research community

2. Outline 1.Development studies is a normative discipline 2.No necessary conflict between fundamental and use orientated research 3.How to create demand 4.How to meet demand 5.Getting research into use 6.Learn about impact 7.It can make a difference connecting and promoting the development research community

3. 1. Normative Goals

4. Beliefs: survey of academics working in the US, 2003 Adapted from Coyle 2007 Ratio of Democrats to Republicans Anthropology and Sociology21:1 Political and Legal Philosophers 9:1 Historians9:1 Political Scientists6:1 Economists3:1 connecting and promoting the development research community

5. Beliefs: survey of 69 economic faculty members- 40 top economics departments, US Universities Fuchs, Krueger and Poterba, 1997 Values=views on: redistribution equity vs. efficiency social vs. individual responsibility connecting and promoting the development research community

6. 2. Fundamental vs. Use? Not use orientatedUse orientated Fundamental relationships explored BohrPasteur Fundamental relationships not explored Edison Source: D. Warsh: 2006 Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations

7. 3. Creating Demand connecting and promoting the development research community India is an economic powerhouse but a nutritional weakling, says economist India can achieve Millennium Development Goals only in 2043'. The Hindu Business Line September 4, 2010

8. Commitment Indices Creating Demand

9. Creating Demand Mentions of Nutrition 2005-2007 In Speeches – DFID: 0/50 – EC: 0/28 In Press releases – DFID: 0/197 – EC: 0/239 In policy documents – 0 in G8 2005 and 2006 – 0 in European Consensus on Development Source: Sumner, Lindstrom and Haddad 2007. IDS Sussex connecting and promoting the development research community

10. Immersions connecting and promoting the development research community

11. 4. Meeting Demand 1.Understand your audience – listen, understand incentives, anticipate issues 2.Dont do bad research – your reputation is your key 3.Communicate well – tappers and listeners 4.Dont lapse into advocacy – dispassionate about research, passionate about communicating 5.Dont get into policy based evidence making – systematic reviews protect everyone connecting and promoting the development research community

12. 5. Getting it into use: get a model connecting and promoting the development research community Problem stream Political stream Solution stream Opportunity to influence Source: Kingdon 1984 Streams model

13. Getting it into use: Credibility connecting and promoting the development research community

14. Getting it into use: Persist connecting and promoting the development research community researcher

15. 6. Learn about Impact connecting and promoting the development research community

16. Assessing Impact of Research: attribution connecting and promoting the development research community

17. Assessing Impact of Research: lags connecting and promoting the development research community

18. 7. It can make a difference connecting and promoting the development research community Research papers in Lancet 2008 Food price crisis 2007-8 IDS/Save UK report 2008 UK Parliamentary committees 2008-9 DFID Nutrition Strategy 2010 Irish Hunger Task Force 2008 Solution stream Political stream Problem stream

19. Vision: Accelerated Global Poverty Reduction Mission: To connect and promote development research and teaching to increase its impact connecting and promoting the development research community Development Studies Association