Francesca Alice

|| connecting • collaborating • qualitative research • learning • knowledge synthesis • strategic communications • writing and editing ||

[Pontsho Pilane @pontsho_pilane]

South Africa receives the largest share of U.S. HIV funding globally through PEPFAR. This funding supports millions of people living with HIV, providing life saving treatment and health worker salaries. A pause on this funding will devastate progress.

[Wits Centre for Journalism @Journ_SA]

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @TheCitizen_News is looking for a graduate news journalist to join the team in Johannesburg, as part of a full-time 12-month training program. Degree or diploma in journalism or a related field is required.

🗓 Apply by 17 Jan: https://t.co/qq2fhyorxj

[CIVICUS @CIVICUSalliance]

Check out our latest interviews covering urgent global issues: 🇱🇧#Lebanon’s worsening humanitarian crisis, challenges for environmental activists in 🇹🇷#Turkey, and the decline of media freedoms in 🇸🇻#ElSalvador.
#CIVICUSLens

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

Measuring impact. There's an increasing focus on demonstrating impact in our work in improvement, change & knowledge creation. But while we're so busy measuring impact, is anything actually changing? Data & measurement are important but they're not enough to create change, particularly in complex systems. Here's a brilliant new discussion article that offers:
1) A history of impact measurement and how its cultural roots are affecting how we think about impact today
2) How "value" skews impact measures
3) How the more uncertain things become, the more the push for methods that help us generate a sense of certainty grows - which should make us question them
4) How might we pragmatically frame ‘impact measurement’ in the context of complex challenges & work to improve systems?
https://t.co/fOPi61GmaC. By @Centre4SysInnov via Paul Batalden

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

My favorite new word…

[𝓛𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷 @luhaenten]

Franz Kafka perfectly describes how it feels to try to live

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

Abstract Structure

#Research #PhD #academictwitter #postdoc #scholarshipfphd

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

Research Stages

[Africa Check @AfricaCheck]

📍 #TipOfTheWeek: Stop and ask yourself two critical questions: Who wrote this? Can I trust them? If the answers are not immediately clear, don’t pass the information on.

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

🌟 Quick Academic Writing Tip

Master the art of transitions in your paragraphs.

Connect ideas smoothly by:

• Testing the flow by reading aloud
• Summarizing previous points
• Previewing next points
• Using signpost words
• Adjusting as needed

Flow matters.

Make it so.

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

The five stages of academic writing:

1. Procrastination
2. Panic
3. Caffeine overdose
4. Submitting a barely coherent mess
5. Swearing to do it differently next time

[Blake Emal @heyblake]

Cheatsheet of cognitive biases

(Steal this)

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

Example of Narrowing your Research Topic

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Force yourself to write every day.

No matter what.

Here is how:
• Use prompts
• Set small goals
• Switch up routines
• Specific writing times
• Every word is a progress
• Experiment with writing styles
• Topic you are so passionate about

Forgive yourself if you can't.

[ActionAid @ActionAid]

ActionAid welcomes today’s ruling by the @CIJ_ICJ that the Israeli government must halt its military actions in #Rafah immediately ‼️

We urge the Israeli government to respect the court and comply with its ruling.

Read our full statement 👇https://t.co/TvoJ2pT740

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

How to read a Paper

[The Center for Implementation @TCI_ca]

Many implementation efforts involve changing systems. Using systems thinking is a great approach for complex systems implementation.

Thanks, @SuhaSelcuk, for sharing this awesome image!

#ImpSci #ImpPractice #SystemsThinking #ComplexSystems

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

🌟 Quick Academic Writing Tip

Break the monotony with variety quietly.

Rent your reader's eyes by:

• Breaking text with subheadings
• Mixing up paragraph structures
• Using questions strategically
• Varying sentence length
• Incorporating lists

Keep eyes moving.

[Social Research Assn @TheSRAOrg]

We have received so much great feedback for our online training courses.
See the full list of the courses we have on offer here: https://t.co/wEn1Wv9eCS