Sentences with phrase «government social research»

Government Social Research Service: produces social research to underpin government policy in areas such as health, crime, work, pensions, education and transport.

Analytical Fast Stream: Government Social Research Service (graduates with at least a 2.1 degree in any social science degree subject or a relevant postgraduate qualification in social research)

Not exact matches

The project brings together scholars of media and communications, government and international relations, physics, philosophy, linguistics, and medicine, and is affiliated with the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), the Sydney Environment Institute and the Sydney Democracy Network.

But the Mueller indictment echoes subsequent findings that masses of false or misleading social media activity was engineered by Russia's Internet Research Agency, as part of a plan to «defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit» beginning as early as 2014.

But ahead of the report launch on 24 January 2017, I'd like to share something that I discovered while researching and talking to [business, government and social] leaders around the world about one dimension of inequality: gender.

That said, I admit I was surprised when the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada agreed in late 2015 to fund the CMP with a six - year, $ 2.5 - million grant — a decision that was finalized in the final months of Stephen Harper's Conservative government.

The market has yet to reach critical mass, but given the kinds of projects funded by state and local governments, «the market should be a natural issuer of green and social impact bonds,» notes Victoria Irving, Equity Strategist for the Global Sustainability Research team.

So please keep helping with useful research into the legal, financial, environmental and social needs so the government can piggyback on your initial work.

The latest study from the Pew Research Center found that government restrictions and social hostilities regarding religion in 2015 (the latest year with data available) were actually down a bit from record highs in 2012, although up significantly from 2007 when Pew began keeping track.

The Pew Research Center found that in 2012, 3 out of 4 people worldwide lived in a country with high levels of social hostilities involving religion, compared with 64 percent of people who lived with high levels of government restrictions on religion.

Government needs a more practical, less academic social policy aimed at the deficiencies of public authority» law enforcement, school standards, and work requirements» that the research itself suggests are central to poverty today.

Consider the allocation of funds: 95 per cent of all research money now goes to applied research; 17 of government funds, 87 per cent goes to physical, 11 per cent to biological, and 2 per cent to social sciences.

The Pew Research Center rated Indonesia high in both government restrictions and social hostilities in its 2017 report on global religious restrictions.

Champions 12.3 — which includes CEOs of major food companies Nestlé, Tesco and Unilever, along with government ministers, executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farm organizations, and civil society groups — will work to create political, business and social momentum to reduce food loss and waste around the world.

Governments, companies, research institutions, and international agencies should refine methods for quantifying the economic, environmental, and social benefits of food loss and waste reduction.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Local Government Navigator Team.

The dispute put Quinn in the crosshairs of social conservative voters who tend to support the use of government to reinforce traditional social relations, according to a Pew research report.

In that time, FPI's work has provided policy research and analysis to support the value and impact of government economic and social investments.»

That government should establish a One - Stop - Shop for investments, electronic templates to simplify business processes, streamline the activities of the Ghana Export Promotion Council (GEPC), Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) and Free Zones Board, and strengthen the capacity of the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and other statistical reporting agencies to deliver reliable and timely economic and social statistics for planning, research and development.

David Attenborough (for respectability, gravitas and social reports on the human species), Stephen Fry (for obscure and diffi cult to source facts), Armando Iannucci (for how not to run a government department - he's done the research) and John Prescott (to defl ect criticism from anybody else).

More information is available at www.understandingsociety.org.uk Understanding Society has been commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is supported by a total of 11 Government departments and administrations.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Scottish Government are pleased to announce that they have jointly awarded just under # 3 million to the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, for a new What Works Scotland (WWS) initiative.

A policy and research Think Tank, VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, says government's hasty decision to convert the country's polytechnics into technical universities, could have dire concerns on the quality expected to come about as a result of the conversion.

The analysis was supported by the Health Research Council of New Zealand and the Health and Social Care Directorate of the Scottish Government.

BAC, an independent entity that comprises government officials, community leaders, media representatives, and medical experts, was set up in 2000 to study the ethical, legal, and social issues brought about by the rapid development in biomedical research in Singapore.

The majority of the job opportunities at the intersection of social science and translational research are within academia — medical schools or schools of public health or social work — but job opportunities also exist at government agencies and private foundations and research institutes, Palinkas says.

I'd also like to see a commitment from governments to support research across the disciplines, and from researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to stand up for social scientists and humanities scholars who find themselves under attack in the media or through reductions in research funding.

He researches rural regions and real estate issues at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an influential government think tank in Beijing.

Many liberals share those concerns about privacy and also fear that research aimed at boosting efficiency could be used to justify reducing government spending on many social programs.

American physicist Harvey Brooks, a member of the president's Science Advisory Committee during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, noted how the 2 per cent of GDP spent on science by the federal government had a «disproportionate social and economic leverage, since the whole thrust of the economy is determined by scientific and technical research».

The report recommends that the government finds a way to make the available evidence more accessible to policymakers and appoints a chief social scientist to communicate research - based advice to policymakers.

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Research minister Șerban Valeca, an engineer appointed by the new social - democratic government in January, has dismissed almost the entire membership of four councils that provide advice on funding policy, research strategy, ethics, and innResearch minister Șerban Valeca, an engineer appointed by the new social - democratic government in January, has dismissed almost the entire membership of four councils that provide advice on funding policy, research strategy, ethics, and innresearch strategy, ethics, and innovation.

In the United Kingdom, funding for Ph.D. students is sometimes provided by government - funded Research Councils or the European Social Fund, usually in the form of a tax - free bursary which consists of tuition fees together with a stipend.

The Global Food Security - Food System Resilience programme is funded with contributions from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and the Scottish Government.

Executive Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

The independence of PBL and its partner agencies CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) is safeguarded in the Protocol for the Policy Assessment Agencies (Aanwijzingen voor de Planbureaus), Staatscourant (government gazette) 3200, 21 February 2012.

«Today's research raises concerns about the government's plans to use new grammars as a vehicle for social mobility.

A research group GEPS (Globalisation, Education and Social Policies) of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have initiated a petition draft concerning the future developments of UNESCO's Education for All framework, it includes inter alia the following critique: «-LSB-...] efforts that would outsource the role of elected and accountable governments to provide free quality education to the private sector and for profit companies are neither equitable nor democratic.»

The research for this book involved extensive survey of free speech literature, theories in media ethics and in social responsibility; extensive survey of problematic, violent speech on the Internet; analysis of relevant literature, government position papers, state laws and court cases, and review of law - enforcement measures that have been taken to combat various forms of violent speech.

Research shows that exposure to music enhances student engagement and wellbeing, improves academic performance and builds personal and social development, the State Government noted.

The government will not be able to see the impact of its # 72 million project, which aims to boost social mobility in 12 areas, until after 2020, according to government research.

The summit examined the intersection of policymaking and social entrepreneurship with 30 of the country's leaders in government, business, and medical research.

The research, which is published with the Sutton Trust's response to the government's consultation on providing more good school places, raises serious concerns about using grammar schools in their current form as a vehicle for social mobility.

There are now 22 research schools across the UK, and 11 are in government - identified social - mobility «cold spots».

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The government won't be able to gauge the impact of a # 72 million project to boost social mobility in 12 «opportunity areas» until after 2020, its own research has found.

Sir Peter Lampl, the charity's chairman, said: «Today's research raises concerns about the government's plans to use new grammars as a vehicle for social mobility.

Grammar schools are no better for the brightest pupils than good comprehensives, according to new research which casts doubt on the government's claim that selective education aids social mobility.

The Trust's chairman, Sir Peter Lampl, said: «Today's research raises concerns about the government's plans to use new grammars as a vehicle for social mobility.