Sentences with phrase «head of research policy»

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As Neil Dutta, head of economic research for Renaissance Macro, wrote in a note to clients, Friday's report was the lowest reading in sixth months, and the index has been «below the 50 breakeven level for nine of the last ten months and will likely intensify calls for additional policy accommodation.»

His colleague at the ILO, Ekkehard Ernst, who heads the Employment Trends Unit at the ILO Research Department and was the main author of the report, agreed it was «imperative» that «active labor market policies be implemented more forcefully to address inactivity and skills mismatch.»

Dan Clifton, head of policy research at Strategas, said the Tillerson move will no doubt be followed by other shake - ups but that should not send longer - term shock waves through the market.

«The market has been pricing in a closer election all summer,» Strategas's head of policy research tells CNBC.

Jean Boivin, head of economic and markets research for the BlackRock Investment Institute, explains the limits of the current monetary policy regime and why a new approach is needed.

Featured speakers include Gina Ma, Director of Marketing Strategy & Operations at Lyft, Jeremiah Owyang, the Founder of Crowd Companies, and Anita Roth, Head of Policy Research at Airbnb.

But according to Stephen Byrd, Head of North American Research for the Power & Utilities and Clean Energy industries, increasingly favorable economics will outweigh policy dynamics.

* Researcher, Province of Alberta * Head, Taft Research and Communications (public policy analysis)

Cato Institute senior fellow, Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care reform, and Social Security.

But C.D. Howe Institute research vice president Finn Poschmann said Poloz's background as head of Export Development Canada could signal a shift in the central bank's focus from monetary policy alone to encompass broader issues.

Competing interests The National Childbirth Trust, where MN is head of policy research, is a campaigning charity committed to increasing the proportion of straightforward vaginal births.

«You have a situation where the state could potentially wind up with a white elephant,» said John Bacheller, former head of policy and research for the state's economic development office, Empire State Development.

Felix Bungay is Head of Research at the Trade Policy Research Centre.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Millsresearch trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian MillsResearch Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian MillsResearch by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

4.10 pm Transport Subject: Disabled Access to Transport Witness (es): Sophie Christiansen OBE, Paralympian, British Equestrian Federation, Marije Davidson, Policy and Research Manager, Disability Rights UK and George Fielding, Panel Chair, Whizz Kidz; Niki Glazier, Co-ordinator, Mental Health Action Group, Lucy Hurst - Brown, Chief Executive, Brandon Trust, George McNamara, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Alzheimers Society and Srabani Sen, Chief Executive, Contact - a-Family; Paul Breckell, Chief Executive, Action on Hearing Loss, Peter Rayner, Vice-President, National Pensioners Convention, Tanvi Vyas, Campaigns Officer, Trailblazers and Richard Leaman, Chief Executive, Guide Dogs Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Asked by Williams if the site kept track of illegal listings during one exchange, David Hantman, head of public policy for Airbnb, said: «We don't research that.»

Commenting on the results, Dr. Prateek Buch, author of Plan C and Social Liberal Forum's Head of Policy and Research, said

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He spent the 1950s working for the party and, after two unsuccessful Parliamentary contests at St Ives in 1950 and Halifax in 1959, he was appointed as Head of the Labour Party's Research Department and took charge of the renewal of party policy following its third successive defeat in 1959.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

«The pause is welcome in the sense that hopefully it will relieve some of the immediate urgency in terms of trying to chart a course forward,» agrees Michael Osterholm, who heads the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, and is a member of the NSABB.

On January 11, President Bush's science advisor John H. Marburger III, who oversees the federal scientific enterprise as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued a memo instructing the heads of all government research organizations to establish «appropriate policies to acknowledge more than one principal investigator (PI) when there is more than one collaborating investigator working on a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news release.

«The president felt that there were opportunities, indeed needs, for these investments that could not be accommodated under the discretionary caps that existed in last fall's budget agreement,» explained Kei Koizumi, head of research at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C., which Holdren directs.

to workshops on grant - writing and policy developments in Higher Education (for example, «this is where government thinking is headed... let's consider how to exploit your expertise in this area, in terms of securing funding for your research»).

Chris Magee, head of policy at the pressure group Understanding Animal Research (UAR) in London, tells ScienceInsider that withholding information does not help scientists and their work, because it leaves a «vacuum that activists can fill in with misleading information.»

So far, however, there is no evidence that these trends have created a shortage of scientific workers, says economist William Butz, the former head of social and behavioral science research at NSF, now at RAND's Science and Technology Policy Institute.

The possibilities raise a radical question about the moral status of human cells, noted Jan Helge Solbakk, head of research at the Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo in Norway and chair of the society's ethics and public policy committee.

Fabienne Gautier, head of the European Research Area policy and reform unit in the European Commission (EC), discussed the long - awaited, pan-European pension fund for researchers.

That does not mean conventional containment strategies shouldn't still be used aggressively, and they need to be scaled up drastically, says Michael Osterholm, who heads the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

«It would be unfortunate if this data were to influence public policy,» says endocrinologist Stephen O'Rahilly, who heads the metabolic research laboratories at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

«In the past, many scientists were understandably afraid of talking about their use of animals, but the climate has very much changed,» says Frances Rawle, head of policy at the Medical Research Council.

Michael Osterholm, head of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, says he thinks «the money can be used wisely across the Americas.»

PHENOMIN - ICS is please to welcome Dr. Mark Prescott, Head - Research management and policy at NC3Rs center (London, uk), during the annual meeting of the French Network CELPHEDIA.

In his former managerial positions at WHO, he was interim Head of the Initiative for Vaccine Research, and Coordinator in charge of policy & strategy and implementation rResearch, and Coordinator in charge of policy & strategy and implementation researchresearch.

Emma Hockridge, head of policy at the Soil Association, said: «This groundbreaking research proves for the first time that people buying organic milk will be benefitting from the higher levels of beneficial fatty acids in organic milk through the whole year.»

After a day of training and strategizing, participants will head to Capitol Hill equipped with the tools needed to educate Congress on policies that impact those with PCOS in their state and district, and why greater access to care and increased funding for PCOS research is needed.

He also served as a member of the Panel on Child Care Policy, the Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions, and the Roundtable on Head Start Research.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Natalie Perera, executive director and head of research at the Education Policy Institute, said: «The biggest cause for concern is the huge gulf between England's top performing primary pupils, and those lagging behind at the bottom — one of the largest out of all developed countries.

In February of 2011, CUNY's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, headed by University Dean David Crook, released critical data (obtained by Director of Policy Analysis Colin Chellman using linear probability models and logistic regression) demonstrating that, all else being equal (i.e., taking into account all measurable demographic and performance characteristics), CUNY's transfer students were at a disadvantage in terms of graduation compared to native students.

Decades of best practice, cutting edge research in early education including the Head Start Impact Study, expert advice, and The Secretary's Advisory Committee's recommendations all culminate in a call to action for policy changes that ensure all Head Start programs provide a consistently high quality early learning experience that prepares children for Kindergarten and has long - term effects on their academic success and overall health.

Grover Whitehurst, Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and former director of the Head Start Quality Research Center, calls Abecedarian and Perry «boutique programs from 40 - 50 years ago that served a couple of hundred children.»

For example, one study on the impact of program - family partnerships for Early Head Start showed program families were more likely to support their children's development and literacy skills than families not in the program.Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low - Income Families, 2001.

Jack's research contributions include studies of children's cognitive and social development and policy research studies on the development of Head Start children and the transition of Head Start children into the elementary school.

Tom Bennett, Founder of ResearchEd and Chair of the Department for Education Behaviour Group John Blake, History Consultant & Leading Practitioner at Harris Federation Christine Counsell, Director of Education, Inspiration Trust Anthony Denny, Parent & Governor, Jane Austen College Rachel De Souza, CEO, Inspiration Trust Toby French, Lead Practitioner, Torquay Academy Claire Heald, Executive Principal, Jane Austen College Karl Hoods, Chairman of Governors, Harris Academy Beckenham Hywel Jones, Head Teacher, West London Free School Michaela Khatib, Executive Head, Cobham Free School Mark Lehain, Principal, Bedford Free School Stuart Lock, Head Teacher, Cottenham Village College Helena Mills, CEO, Burnt Mills Academy Trust Munira Mirza, Former Deputy Mayor of Education and Culture for London Dan Moynihan, CEO, Harris Federation Libby Nicholas, CEO, Reach 4 Academy Trust Sara Noel, Parent and Governor, Cottenham Village College Martyn Oliver, CEO, Outwood Grange Academies Trust James O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Floreat Education Academies Trust Bruno Reddy, Maths Social Entrepreneur & former Head of Maths at King Solomon Academy Martin Robinson, Educationalist & author of Trivium21c Mark Rose, Governor, Great Yarmouth Primary Academy Jo Saxton, CEO, Turner Schools Multi-Academy Trust Tony Sewell, Founder of Generating Genius Jonathan Simons, Head of Education at Policy Exchange & Chairman of Governors, Greenwich Free School Luke Sparkes, Principal, Trinity Academy Alex Wade, Parent and Chairman of Governors, Fulham Boys School Claire Ward, Parent, Cobham Free School Rachel Wolf, Founder of The New Schools Network & Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Education

Valentine Mulholland, the head of policy at school leaders» union NAHT, said the research «paints a bleak picture of the workload pressures on both teachers and school leaders».

Jon Andrews is director for school system and performance, and deputy head of research at the Education Policy Institute

Starting out as a teacher, he served for 10 years as a community - college pesident and another decade as the head of a public - policy research organization.

Jonathan is Head of the Education Unit at Policy Exchange, where he directs research on all aspects of education including Early Years, schools, skills and HE.

«By statute, [CALPADs] comprises only the data that the federal government requires [California] to collect, so it's not a comprehensive data system [and there are] a lot of weaknesses in it,» said David Plank, head of the research group Policy Analysis for California Education, or PACE.