Enhancing the Policy Impact of African Research: Strategies for Visibility and Influence through Overton

Join us on November 14, 2024 at 10 am WAT (UTC+1) // 11am CAT // 12pm EAT for our webinar session featuring Euan Adie, the CEO of Overton. 

Overton is the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers. 

Euan will be speaking on the topic: Enhancing the Policy Impact of African Research: Strategies for Visibility and Influence through Overton

In this webinar, African researchers will learn how to make their research more visible to policymakers and track its impact using Overton. They’ll also get tips on engaging with policymakers and see examples of how African research has influenced policy decisions.

This webinar series is co-organized by: UbuntuNet Alliance and Access 2 Perspectives  as part of the ORCID Global Participation Program: https://info.orcid.org/global-participation-program/

We look forward to seeing you there!

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The recording of the session will be made available here:

The slides will also be made available here: https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/20

Speaker’s profile:

Euan is the CEO of Overton, a London-based company that tracks and indexes the research, ideas, and influences behind government policy worldwide.

Before founding Overton, Euan established and led Altmetric, a company that tracks the attention paid to scholarly works online. Altmetric was acquired by Digital Science in 2015.

He has also worked at Nature Publishing Group and as a researcher in medical genetics at the University of Edinburgh.

Questions to discuss during the Q&A session 

1. What inspired you to start Overton, and how has the journey been so far?

2. How does Overton work, and what makes it different from other platforms that track research impact?

3. What are some of the key trends you’ve noticed in how research influences government policy worldwide?

4. How do you see the role of Overton evolving in the next few years, especially with the growing focus on evidence-based policy?

5. What advice would you give to researchers who want to maximize the impact of their work on public policy?