Dr James Georgalakis
Evidence and Learning Partnership was created by James to help organisations dedicated to the production, brokering and use of evidence to transform lives. He has over twenty years’ experience of successfully bridging the theory and practice of evidence informed policy and of fostering institutional strategies for more equitable and transformative research and policy innovation and impact. James was formerly the Director of Evidence and Impact at the Institute of Development Studies, Director of the UK Government’s Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy programme and Director of the European Social and Economic Research Council’s (ESRC) and UK Foreign Commonwealth Development Office’s (FCDO) Impact Initiative.
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James’ guide to enhancing policy and practice with evidence
This lecture, originally recorded for an Institute of Development Studies (IDS) short course, sets out a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of connecting evidence with policy. James takes you on a tour of the underlying theories and models, that over 40 years, have shaped understandings of what is meant by evidence, its relationship to change, and critical issues around whose knowledge counts. He goes on to give practical advice on frameworks for analysing the political economy of evidence use in your own context and examples of successful strategies from his own 25 year career as an evidence mobiliser.