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Sandy Oliver: Hi, my name is Sandy Oliver, I'm a Professor of Public Policy at University College London and a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg.

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Sandy Oliver: I'm also a member of CEDIL's intellectual leadership team for many years. My work has focused on how different people can use research evidence

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Sandy Oliver: When making difficult decisions in their professional or personal lives, or indeed how they can be involved in research to create research evidence is useful for making decisions.

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Sandy Oliver: Recently, I have been working with colleagues to investigate the different ways that people can be involved in doing or using research about issues that they have a stake in

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Sandy Oliver: That's issues where they have responsibilities for making or implementing decisions or where because those decisions were once made by other people. They may ultimately be affected all these people we call stakeholders.

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Sandy Oliver: There are so many stakeholders who might be involved in so many different ways of involving them perhaps inviting them to a meeting or consulting them at work or home.

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Sandy Oliver: I shall be discussing how to choose between these different methods, depending on the task at hand and how clear we are about what we know at the beginning or of course how unclear. We are

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Sandy Oliver: I should be joined by Lawrence Langer at the University of Johannesburg by Lazarus dos Santos, director of Institute's very does an NGO in Brazil and by Kate Conroy who brings experience of monitoring, evaluation and learning for development.

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Sandy Oliver: We should all be giving our different perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of engaging stakeholders with evidence and we're glad to have Professor Tamsin Bradley from the University of Portsmouth chair the event, please do join us for a fascinating discussion.