Anonymous Advice on the Ethics of Engagement

Academics engaging with policymakers and policy processes is often viewed as beneficial, producing more informed policy outcomes and broadening the impact of scholarship. Yet engagement can give rise also to ethical questions that scholars are neither trained to address nor navigate—and may be afraid to ask about in an open forum.

The Anonymous Advice on Responsible Engagement platform digitally convenes a wide-ranging panel of experienced policy-engaged scholars from the field of international relations to respond to anonymous questions about academic-policy engagement.

This interactive resource is meant to provide candid advice and build a knowledge base to assist academics in interacting responsibly and constructively with governmental and nongovernmental policy actors at all stages of research, from developing policy-relevant questions to disseminating findings to policy audiences.