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Stimulating Demand for Research: Exploring Cultures of Information Use in South Asia Shamprasad Pujar Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India and Catherine Fisher Institute of Development Studies, UK Working Group on Information Management Session-3 Joint EADI 13 th General Conference and DSA Annual Conference University of York 19 th – 22 nd September 2011
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Dr Shamprasad Pujar from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) talking about a paper that he and Catherine Fisher from IDS have been working on entitled Stimulating Demand for Research: Exploring Cultures of Information Use in South Asia. You can view the full paper at http://bit.ly/qanIgY
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Stimulating Demand for Research: Exploring Cultures of Information Use
in South Asia
Shamprasad PujarIndira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India
and
Catherine FisherInstitute of Development Studies, UK
Working Group on Information Management Session-3Joint EADI 13th General Conference and DSA Annual Conference University of York 19th – 22nd September 2011
Our Understanding of “Demand”
For me demand is asking for research.
Oh! for meit is the value placed on research
Shamprasad
Catherine
What does this paper Explore?
Issues around Demand for Research
Politic
al
Context
Institutional Factors
Indiv
idual
Fac
torsOrganizational Context
Demand for Research in South Asia
Tendency of
govern
ments
to
com
miss
ion their
own
Research
Role of Information
Intermediary
Organizations
Broader acceptance of
involvement of Academics in government
Broader attitudes
towards information use
in societyIm
pact of In
ternatio
nal
Organiza
tions
Impact of Civil Society
Dissemination of information in more or less tailored formats
Interaction between the research and implementation communities
Social influence or the power of influential people to persuade (Ex: issues around working with the media and examples of that)
Facilitation or the provision of technical, financial, organizational and emotional support; and
Reinforcement or offering reminders and rewards to reinforce collaborative behaviours’
Stimulating Demand for Research: Examples of Action from South Asia
Conclusion
Change in attitudes or behaviours’ help in stimulating demand
for research, this needs further investigation and thinking
Currently, emphasis is more on activities around dissemination [supply side]. It is interesting to explore further whether these kinds of activities are stimulating demand. There is also scope for other kinds of interventions Eg: DPRM.
Interesting initiatives, but there is little or no evaluation of their relative success or the changes they have brought in terms of behaviours of their stakeholders. Also they need to go beyond linear understandings of how research informs policy
