As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, nearly 100 articles on climate change, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
How Can Researchers Be “Policy Entrepreneurs”?’ summary of presentation at EADI Directors
How Can Researchers Be “Policy Entrepreneurs”? summary of presentation at EADI Directors’ Meeting, 6 September 2003, in EADI Newsletter, 2-2003, p4
An important report this year concludes that researchers are often very bad at communicating to the people who make decisions what they know and what they think should happen. We speak naively of policy issues (says the report), we demonstrate little or no awareness of current policy, we are over-technical and sometimes we need drastic editing to make ourselves readable and understandable to key players................. (see link in title for full article)