Beamlak Tesfaye, has joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Communication and Knowledge Management (CKM) team as knowledge management and communications expert starting April 2017. Continue reading
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James Stapleton joins ILRI Communications and Knowledge Management group as managing editor
On 1 June 2015, James Stapleton joined the ILRI Communications and Knowledge Management (CKM) group as the managing editor. Continue reading
Role of ‘critical research friends’ in mentoring emerging researchers: Reflections from a mentorship workshop
A key consideration in the graduate fellowship program is the need to understand and respond to the career and capacity needs of research fellows so that the mentoring supports them appropriately in designing and carrying out their work in developing-country contexts.
One of the ways in which ILRI is helping fellows is by giving them access to groups of ‘critical research friends’ made up of various mentoring supervisors. Continue reading
Why publish? ILRI graduate fellows and early career researchers trained in scientific writing and publishing
ILRI’s Capacity Development (CapDev) Unit working in collaboration with People & Organizational Development (P&OD) Unit and the Training Centre for Communication (TCC), recently delivered a highly interactive and practical workshop designed to give ILRI graduate fellows, post-doctoral fellows and early career researchers, an opportunity to understand the process of scientific writing and publishing Continue reading
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Livestock and Fish program gives communication skills training to Tanzania Dairy Development Forum partners
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) recently held a three-day training for communication staff working with the Tanzania Dairy Development Forum. Continue reading
Voices from the field: Using multimedia to tell livestock stories
In 2010 the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) started making photofilms to capture event highlights and to tell stories about people who depend on livestock for their livelihoods, food, income and cropping. What are photofilms? A photofilm combines (mostly still) photographs and audio recordings in a multimedia product, usually just a few minutes in length. … Continue reading
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