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Parents should be allowed to make informed choices over infant bed-sharing, says child sleep expert
Parents should be given more information and be encouraged to make informed choices to minimise the risks of infant bed-sharing, a child sleep expert has said.
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Brain frontal lobes not sole centre of human intelligence
Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain’s frontal lobes, say researchers.
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Museum find proves exotic ‘big cat’ prowled British countryside a century ago
The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum’s underground storeroom proves that a non-native ‘big cat’ prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century.
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New fracking research led by Durham University finds it is “not significant” in causing earthquakes
A new study of hundreds of thousands of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) operations has found that the process has only caused earth tremors that could be felt on the surface in three cases.
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Seminar - Maximising the impact of research for development: The challenge and possible solutions
There is no hot line between research and better development policy, practice and outcomes. Huge sums have been spent on unproductive development research, and huge sums have been invested in unproductive development interventions. We live in an increasingly interconnected world where solutions to poverty lies as much in changed behaviour in the developed and middle-income countries as in developing countries, where policy processes are increasingly complex, multi-factorial and non-linear, and practical interventions involve a continuously expanding network of actors with multiple, often divergent incentives. But recognising this, and learning from recent research into complexity, networks, political incentives, innovation systems and new communication technology, new forms of global knowledge networks are emerging that have the power to transform the world. In this presentation Dr John Young, Director of ODI’s Research and Policy in Development Programme will present some of the challenges, some cutting edge research, and some innovative new approaches.
Chair: Katie Oven
About Presenter
John Young is Director of Impact Assessment, Partnerships and Rapid at the Overseas Development Institute. John started and then developed the RAPID programme into a global leader on the research-policy interface, and was instrumental in developing RAPID’s key approaches on policy influence (ROMA). After two years as Deputy Director of ODI John continues to lead the RAPID programme with an emphasis on impact assessments and evaluation, and with organisation-wide responsibility for developing strategic partnerships.
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