From nerd to herd: research uptake, impact and ‘policy entrepreneurs’

Green, Duncan and Evans, Peter (2025) From nerd to herd: research uptake, impact and ‘policy entrepreneurs’. Activism, Influence and Change (25 Sep 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

I seem to be spending more and more time with Peter Evans, talking to UK universities and others about the thorny issue of ‘research for impact’. Most recently, we headed off down to the Institute of Development Studies, for the first of two sessions with their International Centre on Tax and Development. For once, I did not do that much talking, not least because I had a cold and could only manage a whisper/croak. It didn’t matter because Peter had plenty to say – he’s smart and whimsical, has huge experience in the research machine and thinks visually (which I do not). As an example here is a recent post from his excellent substack, which summarizes one of his main messages: that the bridge between researchers and policy/practice is getting wider and stronger, but we undervalue the importance of human agency in getting from ‘nerd to herd’.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-influence-change/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	International Development
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	09 Oct 2025 14:42
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2025 13:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129726

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