Putting the collective impact of global development research into perspective: What we learned from six years of the Impact Initiative

May 2021

20/05/2021

Reductions to UK aid have highlighted the need to understand both how international development research has, and can continue to, effect positive change. In this blog, Pauline Rose and Elizabeth Tofaris reflect on the Impact Initiative programme and what can be learned from six years of facilitating impact-focused research in global development.

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This blog was originally published by LSE Impact Blog on 20 May 2021

The Impact Initiative blog posts are either from individual researchers or from major research programmes. Some of the blog posts are original source and are written by researchers and experts connected to the two research programmes jointly funded by ESRC and FCDO: the Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research and the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme. Other blog posts are imported from related websites and programmes.

The views expressed in these blogs reflect the opinions of each individual and may not represent the Institute of Development Studies, the University of Cambridge, ESRC or FCDO.

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Pauline Rose

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Pauline Rose joined the University of Cambridge in February 2014 as Professor of International Education, where she is Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre in the Faculty of Education. She leads the education strand of the ESRC-DFID Impact Initiative, and was Principal Investigator of the ESRC-DFID Raising Learning Outcomes project: ‘Teaching Effectively All Children in India and Pakistan’ (TEACh). Prior to joining Cambridge, Pauline was Director of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report. Pauline’s research focuses on issues of educational policy and practice in international development settings, including in relation to inequality, and financing and governance.

Elizabeth Tofaris

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Elizabeth Tofaris joined the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, as a Communications Specialist in January 2017. Since completing her MPhil in Development Studies in 2005, she has worked in the third sector. Prior to joining the Impact Initiative, she spent seven years working for the international children’s organisation SOS Children’s Villages where she was responsible for overseeing UK publications, media and public relations.