Sentences with phrase «policy and research manager»

«These trends mirror what we've been seeing in our annual animal shelter stats reports,» says Toolika Rastogi, policy and research manager at CFHS and the project lead for Cats in Canada 2017.
«The legislature and governor must enact ethics reform that will not just punish those who are corrupt, but will prevent the corruption from taking place in the first place,» said Talia Werber, the policy and research manager of Citizens Union.
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
Rachel Fauss, policy and research manager for Citizens Union, said in her testimony that the platform «would put New York City at the forefront nationally,» with the only similar known examples on the local level being Oakland and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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He is a leading economist, fund manager and policy adviser who has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the RBA, and was a director of the Menzies Research Centre.
Within OCFT, Ms. Sasser has also served as Division Chief of Research and Policy, coordinator on combating trafficking in persons, coordinator for Executive Order 13126 list of products made with forced or indentured child labor, and project manager for technical assistance programming in South East Asia.
They, and the supporting research summaries, are intended for an international audience of health, education and social care professionals, policy makers, programme managers and designers, researchers and evaluators.
We also compiled and sent out an average of two e - newsletters / e-shots per month, keeping our database of practitioners, senior managers and policymakers up to date with the latest research, policy and practice news in the fatherhood field.
The plea, which Nutrition Service Center Manager Dan Ellnor said was «heartfelt and well researched,» made the district take a closer look at vegetarianism as a food service policy.
The County Manager performs research tasks as assigned by the Legislature and submits recommendations regarding any modifications needed for more efficient governmental operations and serves as chief advisor to the Legislature in the development, implementation and ongoing modification of policies and procedures.
In June, Paul E. Singer, a hedge fund manager who is the chairman of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Mr. Loeb each donated $ 1 million to the organization's political action committee.
The knowledge system in schools is ultimately a normative standard that can only be understood in a social and historical context,» explains Lucien Criblez, the overall manager of the SNSF project and since 2008 Professor of Education at the University of Zurich with a focus on historical education research and analysis of education policies.
Bullying and discrimination by NHS managers has led to absences among mental health workers, and past policies have failed to stop this, research shows.
«This type of collaborative research focused on specific management and conservation objectives provides important information for resource managers and policy decision - makers who manage public resources,» said Eric Forsman, a coauthor on the study at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research research focused on specific management and conservation objectives provides important information for resource managers and policy decision - makers who manage public resources,» said Eric Forsman, a coauthor on the study at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Research Station.
«We want children to participate in sports,» said Tracy Mehan, Manager of Translational Research at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's.
Loughborough's research policy manager, Lizzie Gadd, said: «There are lots of things that affect citation rates, some of which you can normalise for, such as the age, field and type of publication.
Members of the OAIE can share resources and engage in online discussions, and, in doing so, will enhance stakeholder interactions and build well - informed communities working to respond and adapt to ocean acidification.The OAIE invites anyone working on ocean acidification to join, including but not limited to government, tribal, and academic research scientists, citizen scientists, experiential and formal educators, NGO employees, marine resources managers, policy makers, concerned citizens, aquaculturists, people in the fishing industry, technology developers, and data managers.
The OAiRUG is working with research projects on ocean acidification and with the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre to examine in detail the types of data, analyses and products that are most useful to managers, policy advisers, decision makers and politicians.
«What they can endorse they can also unendorse,» said Adam Sonfield, a senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and advocacy organization for reproductive health based in Washington, D.C.
At the conclusion of the research, Coffield et al., postulate the following question: Finally, we want to ask: why should politicians, policy - makers, senior managers and practitioners in post-16 learning concern themselves with learning styles, when the really big issues concern the large percentages of students within the sector who either drop out or end up without any qualifications?
While a student at the Ed School, she served as a student representative during the last Harvard president search and as an editor on the Harvard Educational Review, not to mention the seven part - time jobs, including her current ones: as a research assistant and «go - to person» for Professor Tom Kane and his Center for Education Policy Research and as a project manager for Professor Bridget Terresearch assistant and «go - to person» for Professor Tom Kane and his Center for Education Policy Research and as a project manager for Professor Bridget TerResearch and as a project manager for Professor Bridget Terry Long.
Beginning in January 2015, Hill, along with the Center for Education Policy Research Senior Project Manager Barb Gilbert and Instructional Specialist Daniel McGinn, will observe teaching using Samsung tablets placed in 460 middle school classrooms around the country.
Julie Sonnemann is Manager, Education Policy and Research, at Learning First.
To learn more about any of these issues, or to connect with members and partners who are championing them, contact Lukas Boehning, PIE Network Manager, Policy & Research.
These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.
The Learning Policy Institute's Principal Research Manager Marjorie Wechsler presented the report findings, which include 10 important elements of high - quality early childhood education programs, as indicated by research and professional stResearch Manager Marjorie Wechsler presented the report findings, which include 10 important elements of high - quality early childhood education programs, as indicated by research and professional stresearch and professional standards.
Jordan Posamentier is the Senior Manager of Policy & Advocacy at Committee for Children, the world's largest provider of research - based educational programs designed to advance social - emotional skills and prevent bullying and sexual abuse.
Presenters will include: Nina Salomon, Project Manager, Corrections and Reentry, Council of State Government's Justice Center, Derek Grubbs, Director of Juvenile Education, Indiana Department of Correction, Jesse Kannam, Policy Research Assistant, American Youth Policy Forum, and Moderator: Jenna Tomasello, Policy Associate, American Youth Policy Forum
Dr. Beth Tarasawa, NWEA's Manager for Education Research Partnerships, collaborates with universities, foundations, and school districts to produce rigorous and accessible educational policy rResearch Partnerships, collaborates with universities, foundations, and school districts to produce rigorous and accessible educational policy researchresearch.
GABRIELA URO, the manager of English - language - learner policy and research for the Council of the Great City Schools
Frank Kros, the Executive Vice President of The Children's Guild and Kelly Spanoghe, the Vice President of Special Education and Student Support Services at The Children's Guild, along with Principal Nakia Nicholson guided Nina and her coworkers, Nia Davis, Senior Manager of Policy and Legal Research, and Kimberley Lane, Vice President of External Growth on a tour of our school.
Speakers include Joe Harris, Director, College and Career Readiness and Success Center at AIR; Jennifer Brown Lerner, Senior Director, American Youth Policy Forum; Melinda Mechur Karp, Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Louisa Erickson, Program Administrator, Basic Skills, Washington State Board for Technical and Community College; Thomas Acampora, Field Manager, Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University.
Ryan Holeywell is the communications manager for the Texas Medical Center Health Policy Institute, where he works to ensure its analyses and research reach member institutions, journalists, policymakers and the public.
Speakers include Jennifer Brown Lerner, Senior Director, American Youth Policy Forum; Melinda Mechur Karp, Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Louisa Erickson, Program Administrator, Basic Skills, Washington State Board for Technical and Community College; Thomas Acampora, Field Manager, Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University; and Joe Harris, Director, College and Career Readiness and Success Center at AIR.
They include the staff of the Center for School Improvement and Policy Studies, particularly Diana Esbensen, our business manager, and Kelli Burnham, our student assistant, who helped us with research and organizational issues too numerous to count.
Presenters include: Dr. George Batsche, Professor and Program Coordinator of Graduate Programs in School Psychology, University of South Florida; Lindsey Hayes, Researcher, Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform Center (CEEDAR), American Institutes for Research; Catherine Jacques, Researcher, College and Career Readiness and Success Center, American Institutes for Research; Ace Parsi, Personalized Learning Partnership Manager, National Center for Learning Disabilities; and Jenna Tomasello, Policy Associate, American Youth Policy Forum
Consulting assignments have ranged from helping investment managers design innovative retirement income solution programs for defined contribution plans, writing public policy and market landscape papers, serving as program manager for an industry - led coalition to increase American's savings, speaking engagements at client conferences, researching specific target - date fund market opportunities, and strategic initiative development.
That point was reinforced in a comment sent Friday by Bárbara Ferreira, communications manager for the European Geosciences Union, endorsing what others have said about the dangers of publicizing research before it has been peer reviewed: «Our policy at the European Geosciences Union is to not advertise research submitted to our journals before the paper has been accepted and published in its final, peer - reviewed form — which, in this case, wouldn't be for at least another three months, possibly more.»
Robbie Orvis, policy design project manager at energy research firm Energy Innovation, noted in a Wednesday tweet that a slight wording change in DOE's NOPR limits its application to grid operators with both energy and capacity markets.
Exxon scientists and managers warned of possible future policies to cut fossil fuel emissions, internal memos show, and the company established an ambitious in - house climate research program in part to have a credible voice in the development of such rules.
She has developed an integrated research program of both individual and team research that is grounded in manager and policy - maker needs.
Managers from carbon intensive companies are holding off on long term emissions strategies because of uncertainty around regulations and policies, new research finds.
Alex Hanafi is Senior Manager of Multilateral Climate Strategy at EDF, where he coordinates a range of research and advocacy programs designed to promote effective policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the globe.
«It's hard to dream up anything so anticompetitive,» agreed Devin Hartman, electricity policy manager at free - market research group R Street, based in Washington, D.C.. By his count, about 80 plants could get protection under by FirstEnergy's request, «and many of them probably would be retiring over the course of the next five years or so.»
Panellists: Peter Freyberg, Head of Global Coal Assets, Glencore John Scowcroft, Executive Adviser for EMEA, Global CCS Institute Hans Ten Berge, Secretary General, Eurelectric Dr Gabriel Marquette, General Manager of EUROGIA2020, the Eureka Cluster for low - carbon energy technologies Jason Channell, Managing Director, Citi Research Paula Abreu Marques, European Commission, Head of Unit, Renewable Energy and CCS Policy
Prior positions include advising the University of California on federal energy and climate policy, directing research on low - carbon fuels and vehicles at UC Davis» Institute of Transportation Studies, and as an engineer and then manager for Ford Motor Company.
With long - held interests in science policy, he has served as a Science Policy Fellow at the National Academies» Polar Research Board (2005), a project manager at the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (2006), and a AAAS Science Policy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development (2013 - policy, he has served as a Science Policy Fellow at the National Academies» Polar Research Board (2005), a project manager at the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (2006), and a AAAS Science Policy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development (2013 - Policy Fellow at the National Academies» Polar Research Board (2005), a project manager at the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (2006), and a AAAS Science Policy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development (2013 - Policy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development (2013 - 2015).
Talking of which, we are flattered that Bob Ward — Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, erstwhile Director of Public Policy at risk insurance giants RMS and before that, Senior Manager for Policy Communication at the Royal Society — has dropped by to give his thoughts on our observation that, if you're going to go around accusing the opposition of corruption, you'd better be whiter than white yourself.
Integrating past ecological information in ecosystem management requires a research framework linking a diverse collection of those who need information about past fires — policy makers, nonprofit workers, resource managers, and emergency responders, to name a few — with scientists.
Alex Fitzsimmons was Manager of Policy and Public Affairs at the Institute for Energy Research (IER) and its advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), while also working as a «spokesman» and communications director for Fueling US Forward (FUSF), the Koch - funded campaign to bolster public opinion of fossil fuels.
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