 We look at how policies get changed in context outside of the Global North. We want to understand what factors change policy and that can inform advocates for policy change, but it can also inform researchers who want to make sure their research has impact. We're doing a number of case studies in different contexts around the world to understand how policy makers make the decisions they make. The case studies include studies from Bangladesh, Singapore and South Africa. We find there are a number of factors that influence whether or not a policy change occurs. These include things like who the policy is being made for, the political environment in which the policy is being made, the kinds of knowledge that are available and how they're being used, as well as who the actors are, which kinds of coalitions form, which kinds of advocacy groups form. This is useful for example for researchers like myself. We often imagine that if we present research to policy makers that they will use it immediately and the uptake will be linear. Often that's not the case and we're quite frustrated by that. For example, migration policy at the moment is highly politicized. It's also increasingly global, so weaker states in the global south are often being put under enormous pressure by other countries, perhaps more economically powerful countries to implement certain kinds of policy. That may mean that even if the research suggests otherwise, a state might be under huge pressure from a range of international actors to implement policy that looks a particular way. Very often research oriented towards human rights policies tends to focus on the abuse as people suffer. When in reality as much as we may need to know that, often we already know that and what policy makers need to know is what kinds of policy options are there out there and what could they do differently. And that kind of research was largely absent in the three contexts we've researched. We need to think about the political context into which our research is placed. We need to understand that if we're going to have an impact. We need to think about packaging our research in creative ways and in particular we need to think about whether we've done the right kind of research for policy makers to use.