Reflections

Requests for Revisions That Go Against One’s Findings

Elisabeth King

The Challenge:

Responding to requests for substantive revisions to consultancy work that go against one’s findings, analysis, or professional opinion

The Background and Policy Setting:

King is a political scientist committed to conducting policy-relevant research related to war, peace, development, and education. Over the past 15 years, alongside her university-based work, she has partnered with a number of governments, non-governmental

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Ethics of Engagement and Sources of Funding

Tanisha M. Fazal

The challenges:

  • How to fund policy relevant research without compromising ethics.
  • The complexities of managing government funding.
  • The dilemmas of private foundation funding.
  • The positionality of funding dilemmas.

The background and policy setting:

All scholars need funding for research. Sometimes we need to pay for field research, sometimes for surveys. Sometimes – indeed, often – what we

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