Sentences with phrase «informed the public debate»

Theoretically, these are meant to be local policy experiments, and the data gleaned from them should ostensibly inform public debate on health policy.

«All these things are real and present dangers now, they're not future impossibilities and it's absolutely vital that there's an informed public debate about how we inform and develop AI,» he said.

For the most part, the language of economics has informed the public debate over school choice.

«Since I study immigration, the ability to contribute to and inform the public debate means a lot to me at this particular moment and I'm really looking forward to learning more about how some of these issues are playing out across diverse contexts.»

I am proud to live in a welleducated democracy, and it is central virtue of our kind of society that informed public debate occurs and should occur on all questions of importance.

These results aims to help inform the public debate on GHG emissions, and support research, development and extension efforts to improve the sustainability performance of dairy farming.

As part of a series of the workshops called Taking Stock, the Earth Journalism Network worked with journalists from 13 EU countries to improve their understanding and coverage of issues and reforms to lead to more informed public debate related to the Common Fisheries Policy.

The goal is to help raise awareness and facilitate a necessary, informed public debate ahead of several upcoming initiatives that aim to address high resource consumption.

Hubris and hyperbole is informing the public debate that is predominantly presented as one divided between scientists and «deniers».

The authors explain that before undertaking efforts to restructure and possibly impoverish our society, careful analysis and informed public debate about these assumptions and prescriptions are necessary.

[T] here is a more fundamental reason that science has failed to properly inform public debate — its inherent conservatism.

«For over one and a half centuries, the annual Gracious Address has been drafted inside Government and agreed by the Cabinet far from the public arena, but I believe that it is right, in the interests of good and open government and public debate, that each year the Prime Minister make a summer statement to the House so that initial thinking, previously private, can be the subject of widespread and informed public debate.»

Part of the point of transparency is both to inform the public debate and to build trust.

Not exact matches

They inform the Institute's research and policy agenda and contribute their knowledge and analysis to further the Institute's efforts to impact public debate in support of progressive change.

The Business Council of Canada regularly publishes reports and studies to inform and contribute to the debate on Canadian public policy issues.

In addition, if seminary education were informed more by theologia as he conceives it, ministers would be better equipped not only to run their churches but to relate them to the major issues being debated in the public realm.

This newventure will hopefully allow some journalists the opportunity to delve far more deeply into these issues, and allow them then to contribute more constructively to informing the public about the real state of the religion — science debate.

The public attention given to the landmark High Court case taken by Aja Teehan and the coverage of the recent Coroner's inquest in the tragic death of baby Kai David Heneghan in Mayo have dominated the debate and have detracted from the real issues of: (i) Ireland's maternity care system being almost solely obstetric led and (ii) a woman's right to make responsible, informed choices in pregnancy and childbirth.

The raging public debate, largely ill - informed, is not premised on what is in Ghana's national interest, but what will give the largest boost to the political fortunes of the NDC & NPP in the run up to November's Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

This blog series aims to inform public and policy debate on the role of public assets in our political economy.

Building on workshops co-hosted by Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations, the New Economics Foundation and Positive Money, the blog series aims to inform policy and public debate on the potential of public assets.

A recent research project by Kayte Lawton and myself for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, attempts to inform debate by providing a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes in the UK.

I guess the man that reneged on the promises he gave at the time of the Moreland commissions inception, which he prematurely dissolved as they were building cases, has no interest in voters making an informed decision on him or Ms. Teachout, he's going to hide from the press and not debate his rival to the detriment of keeping the public informed.

Now we are witnessing his contempt for keeping the public informed during an election by agreeing to debate his Democratic Primary opponent Zephyr Teachout.

Notes to Editors The report, «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», by Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani Hessari, Cécile Knai and Elisabete Weiderpass, will be published online in Drug and Alcohol Review at 22:00 6 September 2017 The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote and informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

For the British public to make an informed decision, they need to see arguments debated aggressively — with policy proposals harshly scrutinised, supporters» motives questioned and promises evaluated sceptically.

Through lobbying, advocacy, coalition building, citizen education and policy development, EPL / Environmental Advocates has been New York's environmental conscience - ensuring that environmental laws are enforced; that new measures are enacted when necessary; and that the public is informed of, and participates in, important environmental policy debates.

There are many ways for scientists working in controversial fields to help inform policy and the public debate.

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

He said it has an important role at a time when many ethical issues were demanding a well - informed debate between doctors and the public.

France's Special Commission for the Public Debate on Nanotechnology is organizing a 4 - month discussion in 17 cities to inform the public about advances and dilemmas in nanotechnology and to give citizens a chance to express their opPublic Debate on Nanotechnology is organizing a 4 - month discussion in 17 cities to inform the public about advances and dilemmas in nanotechnology and to give citizens a chance to express their oppublic about advances and dilemmas in nanotechnology and to give citizens a chance to express their opinion.

Our divisive political system seems fated to make decisions about genomic editing of human embryos mainly amidst conflict, with experts dueling in the public media rather than through a thoughtful and well - informed debate conducted in a credible framework.

It's really important to keep the public debate about stem cell research going — so that when the time comes to make the big decisions about what to do with the science, the debate is already an informed one.»

Our work will ensure that Government policy and the wider public debate about Britain's future is rational and well informed.

Our work will ensure that Government policy and the wider public debate about Britain's future is rational and well informed.

Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

Information is power, and we will work every day to inform, educate and engage the public on critical policy debates.

Whether we are being funded by a foundation or public funds, we have a responsibility to disseminate our findings to the broader public and make our findings accessible in order to inform the wider debates.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Our work will ensure that Government policy and the wider public debate about Britain's future is rational and well informed.

Our integrated Public Programme consist of commissions, residencies, education and interpretation projects, which attract and inform significant audiences as well as providing artists with platforms and opportunities for debate and critique, as well as developing the discourse on contemporary sculptural practice.

Since its foundation, the «Society» has enthusiastically organised numerous debates and talks to keep the public informed of recent trends, attitudes and opinions.

By this Charter, the Governing Council is directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.»

But having a more informed public shouldn't have to be the prerequisite for democratic debate or science policymaking.

I mean even though I became this reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change, over time I've learned to embrace the opportunity that has given me to talk to the public about this problem and the threat that it represents, to inform the public discourse on this issue.

In no way do my values suggest that debate should be curtailed: I merely insist that a scientific debate should take place in the scientific literature and that the public be put in a position where it can make an informed judgment about the voices that are opposing mainstream science on crucial issues ranging from climate change to vaccination.

A real newspaper that was leading and shaping the public debate would find the most informed views from both sides and put them forward, shaping and hammering out the public debate.

Singer / WWF: we as an NGO working on climate policy need such a document pretty soon for the public and for informed decision makers in order to get a) a debate started and b) in order to get into the media the context between climate extremes / desasters / costs and finally the link between weather extremes and energy

They deserve and increasingly demand healthy and respectful political dialogue, and well - informed, well - debated public policies.