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Communicating research

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Our work around communicating research bridges the gaps that prevent important policy-related research findings from reaching wider audiences and influencing policy decisions.

We develop skills among journalists and strengthen alliances among the different stakeholders who can influence policy outcomes, working in Eastern and Southern Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean.

  • We create spaces for dialogue between researchers and journalists
  • Support journalists in using research to produce incisive journalism that can bring about debate between civil society activists, decision-makers and those who are affected by policy decisions.

For more specific details relating to our work on communicating research you can visit the RELAY (communicating research) project page at www.panos.org.uk/projects/relay

We bridge gaps between journalists and researchers to ensure the best development decisions are made

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Relay: Communicating research

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Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Communicating research publications

Hungry in the City

Inside a Kampala Slum

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

A journalist’s guide to reporting research findings

BANGLADESH | Journalist Ashok Prasad shows film footage to the villagers of Dinajpur / G M B Akash - Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Forced migration

Sri Lanka | Kawsiha, a displaced 12 year old Tamil whose mother was summarily executed by unknown forces / Robin Hammond - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Reporting research: using evidence for effective journalism

Researcher conducting a health survey in Bangladesh / Jenny Matthews - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Feeling the pinch: impacts of the financial crisis on developing countries

New research highlights some of the impacts that the global financial crisis is having on developing countries. Here unemployed people queue for their unemployed insurance fund (UIF) in Elizabeth, South Africa / James Oatway - Panos pics

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Research makes the news

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Tax matters

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Sorting fact from fiction: Improving media reporting on TB

Zambia: outreach health workers are helping families tackle TB together / Giacomo Pirozzi - Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Better connected – empowering people through communications technology

Amar Singh Verma checks online crop prices at an Internet cafe in the village of Siradi in Madhya Pradesh, India. An international company has set up free Internet kiosks with local language websites throughout the region/ Ami Vitale - Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

At the heart of change

Belonging to a cooperative group gives these women in Cameroon the chance to communicate their views more widely. Sustainable development demands that people participate in the debates and decisions that affect their lives / Giacomo Pirozzi - Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Common ground? Investigating the importance of managing land

Bangladesh | A smallholder shows his deeds of agricultural land that has been claimed and amalgamated into that of a larger landowner / Peter Barker - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Communicating research blog posts & features

Meet Relay’s journalist fellows from Northeast India

This is Tingri village; which will be badly affected once the dam has been constructed. It is home to a Mising Community. The Mising are a Scheduled Tribe; which means that their rights as indigenous people are protected to a degree under the Indian Constitution (http://bit.ly/e5kioj). This village is typical of Mising communities: houses are on stilts because the area is prone to seasonal flooding.

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

ARV treatment can work miracles

Aliness Munyanta and her 20-month-old daughter in Lusaka - Zarina Geloo | Panos London

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Panos London coverage on World AIDS Day

Purple Romero features in SvD on 2-12-2011

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Sharing research communication skills in Portugal

Clube de Journalistas - Annie Hoban | Panos London

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

We can be proud of what we’ve achieved

An educational programme in Soshanguve township in Pretoria, South Africa which teaches vulnerable young people about HIV while improving their footballing skills. Panos London's HIV interventions are based on understanding who is vulnerable to HIV and why. Robin Hammond | Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Diamonds on the soles of our shoes

Panos is vaguely translatable as torch or beacon. Children send a fire lantern into the sky at the beginning of the water festival in Yunnan | Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Tax research on primetime Ugandan radio

A senior tax collector / Jan Banning | Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Practical tips for communicating research

INDIA | A teacher speaks to the Mising community about the health impacts from large dams / Tania Ghosh - Panos London

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Protestors, power and mega-dams

A report published by Forced Migration online, titled 'Development induced displacement and resettlement', finds that adivasis (tribal people) in India account for 8 per cent of the population but are estimated to make up 40 to 50 per cent of those displaced by development projects. Although only 38 families have been directly displaced and, as such, compensated for living on the actual dam site, the impact on the ecology of the river may force scores of people in downstream areas to leave. Credits: Tania Ghosh - Panos London

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Female migrants’ isolation heightens HIV risk in Cambodia

Cambodia | Pov, who is HIV positive, and her mother sit at home. A new study claims that the social isolation and poverty that female migrant workers suffer increases their risk of HIV infection / Karen Robinson - Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Moralising fails to curb teen pregnancies

Children play on a roof near the Pacific coast of Ecuador. A new report has said that health professionals in the coutry are compromising adolescents' sexual health by stereotyping how men and women act / Rhodri Jones - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Ethiopian inequality will widen says climate report

Ethiopia | A young boy holds onto his mother in an area suffering from drought. A new study says that climate change will increase inequality in the region / Dieter Telemans - Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Nepali women’s groups help cut infant deaths

Developing women's confidence can help reduce deaths among newborn babies by up to 30 per cent / Tom Pilston - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Street children start out as school truants, says South African study

Children play outside a home for street children in Cape Town, South Africa / Chris Sattlberger - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Lesotho’s farmers miss out on agricultural information

A young cattle herder in Lesotho. New research says that information from Lesotho's Agriculutral Information Service (AIS) is not being used by many of Lesotho's famers / Giacomo Pirozzi - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Aid fails to alleviate poverty in Mozambique

A young labourer harvests coconuts near Maxixe, Mozambique. The majority of the population relies on agriculture but donors put to much focus on mega-projects at their expense / Fred Hoogervorst - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Culture versus climate change in Burkina Faso

Burkina-Faso | Boys work in their field to prepare for planting. The area is seeing greater weather variablility, but different groups are responding to the changes in different ways / J.B. Russell - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Labour camps increase HIV risk amongst sex workers in China

A sex worker rests in Yunnan Province, China. A new report states that sex workers sent to labour camps are twice as likely to contract HIV than those who don't / Ian Teh - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Nursing exodus could benefit Caribbean in long term

Jamaica | A nurse, Ivy Holder, checks Dorrie Huie's blood pressure. Carribean countries have a large number of nurses move to work in other countries, but a new report suggests this might bring positive outcomes / Neil Cooper - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Climate change policy needs indigenous knowledge

Five men in the Central African Republic. A new report suggests that male friendships hold the key to HIV prevention / Juan Vrijdag - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Research interrogates Colombia’s counter-narcotics gains

COLOMBIA

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Micro-credit adds to women’s double burden in South Asia

Bangladesh | Amina Begum with the ducks she was able to buy as a result of a microfinance loan. But a new report questions whether market based initiatives, like micro-credit, are always beneficial / GMB Akash - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Unhappiness of Chinese rural-urban migrants

A migrant worker rests with his belongings in Beijing. A new report says that rural-urban migrants are less happy than those that remained / G.M.B. Akash

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Poor failed by corruption in fertiliser programme

Malawi | A child gathers refuse to be used as fertiliser at Nchezi dump. New research is suggesting that organised gangs are taking advantage of fertiliser subsidy programmes / Robin Hammond - Panos pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.

Indian labour laws not enforced, says report

Women carry bricks at a Mumbai construction site/ Chris Stowers - Panos Pictures

Academic research makes a crucial contribution to development but too often findings are kept within the research community. The media can play a part in communicating this knowledge.