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Spot on @RadioFreeTom. In 2011 Ann Marie Murphy and I tried to bridge the gap between the foreign policy community and academia by highlighting the role of #pracademics (someone who is both an academic and an active practitioner in their subject area) /1 nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/OutputFile/101…
Combining theory and practice is one way to generate knowledge and understanding. I wrote my PhD thesis as an independent academic and practitioner employed by 🇩🇪 (BMZ, GTZ, CIM) and 🇨🇳 (CANGO) development agencies. But there are also real tensions between science & politics /2 
In most cases, academics do not start out as #pracademics, but gradually get more involved in policy-relevant work. Murphy and I described the spectrum from more theoretical and analytical work on the one hand to more practical and applied policy entrepreneurship on the other /3
