NGOs increasingly need to work with academics. Gemma Ferguson provides tips to collect the best out of collaborationDuring a recent presentation,I was given a raucous round of applause from the academics in the room for correctly describing our project’s study as a “pair-matched, repeated cross-sectional, and two-armed,single-blinded, cluster randomised controlled trial”.
Academics are often accused of hiding in “ivory towers” as described in a recent Guardian newspaper article that demanded they collect better at sharing their ideas with a wider audience. But as practitioners, or “policy influencing” and “research uptake” are increasingly fitting key components of our work,and it is essential that we also strive to bridge the divide and find ways to collaborate better with our academic colleagues.
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Source: theguardian.com