In this chapter, the speakers discuss the importance of receiving tangible feedback and results from research work. They highlight the difficulty of organizations implementing advocacy or campaign work based on research and express satisfaction with seeing research actually implemented in the real world. They also mention a research project that influenced a donor to fund grassroots activism, but express frustration with not being informed about it.
Neil Dullaghan is a Senior Research Manager in the animal welfare department at Rethink Priorities. Neil also holds a PhD in Political Science and is a fund manager of the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund.
In this episode Neil talks us through his policy research in the EU as well as other exciting projects and impactful research that Rethink Priorities has produced and includes some of the most obscure resource recommendations to date!
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