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Blog: Notes on Policy Research

September 11, 2026 by admin Leave a Comment

How Policy Research Goes Wrong

As someone who has been doing policy research consulting in the field of international humanitarian action since the early 2000s, I have seen how research products can badly miss the mark in two opposite directions: too little evidence, or too much evidence without analysis. [This article is the fir

The Hard and Soft of It

Good policy research borrows from scientific methods without pretending to be something it’s not [This is the second in a series of articles about research consulting in the international policy space. See the previous post here.

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