Blog Publication: Reflections on the UCL International Policy Fellowship 2024

Glory Atilola, Irina Petrova, Stijn Van Ewijk and Stuti Rawat have written a blog titled "Reflections on the UCL International Policy Fellowship 2024: Policy Processes and Knowledge Production". Their blog was published on Medium's Policy Postings and was supported and uploaded by the UCL Public Policy.

In their blog, the four academics reflect on the fellowship being an incredible opportunity for them to meet researchers from different universities and giving them "a very real sense of the UN policy process".

Irina says: "For me the fellowship was a roller coaster from hope and anticipation of ‘making the world a better place’ to frustration verging on despair when realising how the logic of multilateral cooperation for common good is sidelined by underlying power interests and how excellent resources are wasted in the decision- and policy-making process; — and yet back to hope that a small step-by-step engagement between science, policy-makers and civil society can make incremental changes".

Read the blog here.