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I’m curious where this research was published? Very often even if the research is done, its published in an academic journal where its relevance to development practice is essentially zero – because the only people who will read it is other development academics. This is even more true if it was published in an A-rated journal, since it will probably be behind a pay-wall that essentially excludes almost all development practitioners. Conferences are essentially siloed – the academics at one set, where they can get the “points” for publishing, and the practitioners at a different set, where the presenters will have been filtered for relevance. If we are going to bridge the gap there needs to be serious willingness on the part of academia to make their work relevant to development practice. For example ….
– Publish *only* in open-access media
– Write in English, not in Academeeze
– Open conferences to practitioners – (a call for papers to be published in 6 months, requiring an arcane academic format is not going to attract meaningful import from the field)
– Reject any academic paper that doesn’t have at least half its citations from practitioners rather than other academics
As a practitioner, I get frequent requests to participate in research, for the last few years I’ve ONLY accepted those which are going to be published open-access, I hope other practioners will start doing the same thing.