Posted on June 10, 2008 by Eva Schiffer
If we want “demand driven” not to be just another a buzz word to increase fundability of our projects, we have to (as I write below) ask a different set of questions to our stakeholders. Instead of asking: “What kind of research do you need to solve this problem?”, we need to ask: “What is [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by jennyhauck
There I am again – surfacing from the fieldwork with quite exiting results. Remember… At the end of the main phase of my PhD research on fisheries in small reservoirs in September 2007, I invited the fishermen to feed back information. I did not want to pay my interview partners for different reasons. On the [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Eva Schiffer
As I explored in an earlier post, my last trip to Ghana was aimed at (amongst other things) getting a better understanding of the integration of research and governance: “How can we increase the impact of policy oriented research through improved collaborations on the ground?” One thing that my 3 years in Ghana have taught [...]
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