A critical challenge for developing country health systems is to craft policy that gives individuals with curable diseases like malaria and pneumonia access to potentially life-saving medical care, while avoiding that patients consume unnecessary medical treatment or get treated for the wrong illness.
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Posted: 23rd January
Posted: 16th January
ESRC is offering a one-day media training course for ESRC-funded researchers to develop skills and increase confidence to engage with the media.
Posted: 14th January
ESRC-DFID grant-holder, Ben Campbell, highlights how energy resilience narratives are providing culturally nuanced information on poor peoples' energy needs, vulnerabilities and precarities.
Posted: 8th January
Conference Director, Dr Vicky Johnson outlines her key learnings from the Power of Partnership: Research to Alleviate Poverty event hosted by the ESRC-DFID Strategic Partnership which took place in Delhi in December 2018.
Posted: 7th January
As a funder of research, assessing the quality of that research is of course on the top of our minds. We have well-established criteria and matrices: not that they provide infallible truths, but peer reviews if managed well give us very reliable assessments.
Posted: 20th December
Kelly Shephard (IDS) explores the role of storytelling in research and shares videos and impact stories from the 'Power of Partnership' event which took place in Delhi, India from 3 - 5 December 2018.
Posted: 17th December
Whether you are running an event or want to disseminate research outcomes, finding accessible ways to engage your audience and spread the word is a concern of researchers and organisations alike. Creating a visual summary of your key messages provides people with a quick, accessible and engaging way to see what you are saying, but are visuals always the right choice?
Posted: 12th December
The Celebrating Impact Prize is the UK's Economic and Social Research Council's annual opportunity to recognise and reward ESRC-funded researchers who’ve created, or enabled, outstanding impact from social scie
Posted: 12th December
What happens when you take the worldwide television phenomenon of Dragons’ Den - known in many countries as Shark Tank – and swap business entrepreneurs for social scientists, and business tycoons for donors and policy actors?
Posted: 4th December
The ‘Power of Partnership: Research to Alleviate Poverty’ conference took place this week in Delhi, India.