Networks Series 5: Capacity-sharing to support the use of evidence in decision-making
By Ruth Stewart, Director of the Africa Centre for Evidence ‘She would take over the school given half a chance.’ That is what my school report said when I was six years old. I believed [...]
Networks Series 4: We need greater understanding of decision-making and decision-makers
By Ruth Stewart, Director of the Africa Centre for Evidence ‘A public servant at heart’. That is how I was introduced my government colleague when I helped to deliver a workshop for public servants from [...]
Networks Series 3: What do we know about how to facilitate evidence use?
By Ruth Stewart, Director of the Africa Centre for Evidence It is all too easy to set up a straw man argument with regards the use of evidence in decision-making: along the lines of [...]
Networks Series 2: Production of useful evidence: the rapid expansion of the evidence-synthesis
By Ruth Stewart, Director of the Africa Centre for Evidence Systematic reviews and the production of useful evidence I am often overwhelmed by the range of programmes and activities aiming to improve the quality of [...]
Networks Series 1: What should we do to ensure that research evidence is both useful and used?
By Ruth Stewart, Director of the Africa Centre for Evidence Introduction - Two challenges For those of us who are working to ensure that research evidence is both useful and used, there are many challenges [...]
The new Africa Centre for Evidence
A personal story By Ruth Stewart The Africa Centre for Evidence (ACE) office at the University of Johannesburg The University of Johannesburg has a new research centre: the Africa Centre for Evidence. Founded in 2017, [...]