Sentences with phrase «public engagement concerns»

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«I have found Marc to be an energetic advocate of public engagement and thoughtful deliberation of public concerns.

These include: · Restricting trade hours of on - licence venues to limit the availability of alcohol in the early hours of the morning · Enhancing community involvement, better facilitating the engagement of local residents with licensing systems · Adding / prioritising public health and / or harm minimisation objectives in alcohol legislation · Restricting the sales of high risk products in areas of concern; and · Deprioritising government support for industry voluntary schemes in place of policies supported by evidence.

The public should be given a real say in issues that concern them, using tools that provide genuine engagement such as Citizens» Juries.

«We're concerned not having these parents there working will start to deteriorate the parent - engagement process going on,» said Kevin Lafferty, a public advocate with the District Parent Coordinating Council.

All iGEM projects must explicitly address potential biosafety, biosecurity, intellectual property, ethics, and public - engagement concerns.

In August, the agency solicited new bids for the project, due next month, that explicitly require public engagement from the outset, including staff that will remain on site day to day to hear local concerns.

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

All three districts modeled community engagement, partnering, and a willingness to listen to public concerns, and all made efforts to include families and communities in district - level committees.

He asserted, ``... where some of America's best public schools educating some of America's blackest and most disadvantaged kids are concerned, the NAACP's duplicitous engagement of black folks on the issue of charter schools is the worst kind of betrayal.»

Through public advocacy and community engagement, school boards share their concerns and actions with the public.

At the Whitney Museum, Durham's movement from an explicit engagement with Native identity to one more focused on indigenous concerns with colonialism and power (some of which may be the result of ongoing public attempts to disprove his earlier claims of Cherokee heritage) began to occur after the first gallery of work.

Concerned with the dynamics of public space, the artist observes notions of disconnection and isolation, uncovering the darker elements of contemporary culture through an engagement with light, shadow and colour.

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation will bring Marfa Dialogues to St. Louis from July 30 — August 3, 2014 as we continue our examination of artistic practice, climate change science, and civic engagement.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

We will publish white papers on our website concerning code publication (how and why) and public engagement.

Jane has written on matters of public participation and public engagement, equity concerns as they relate to research, and on responsible research and innovation more broadly.

In this regard, we should be thinking about media organizations that we can influence and which have audiences where we can make progress in terms of engagement with the goal of widening the scope of public concern and participation on the issue.

It is somewhat ironic that climate scientist Prof. Mann received a prestigious award for Public Engagement with Science about climate science during a period in which public concern / engagement about / with climate science was at an all timPublic Engagement with Science about climate science during a period in which public concern / engagement about / with climate science was at an all timpublic concern / engagement about / with climate science was at an all time low.

In our most recent survey in September 2012, we found that the rebound in public engagement has continued: the Alarmed, Concerned and Cautious audience segments once again comprise 70 percent of the American public, as they did in the fall of 2008.

Kris has spoken at numerous legal seminars, including speaking engagements concerning «Motions in Limine: Protecting the Story» (Panel Member, NELA - GA / ICLE Trying Your Best: Employment Law Goes to Court Seminar, 2017), «Reductions in Force» (Professional Association Of Georgia Educators, 2012), «Settlement Agreements and Keeping the Deal» (State Bar of Georgia, General Practice and Trial Section, 2011), «Update on Employment Law» (General Practice And Trial Law Section Institute, 2011), «Employment Law in the Trenches» (General Practice and Trial Law Institute 2009), EEOC Atlanta 2008 Technical Assistance Program Seminar, «Firing Public Employees: Lessons Learned from the Perspective of Plaintiff and Defense Counsel» (Liability of Local Governments Seminar 2007), «Busting the Cap on Damages in Employment Litigation» (Managing Damages in Employment Litigation Seminar 2007), «State Law and Other Non-Traditional Claims: Crash Course, Questions to Ask, and New Developments» (Employment Law for the General Practitioner and for the Pros).

My focus will be on the lessons of the Pew study in matters concerning public access, participation and engagement by means of social media.

Developing and establishing an online forum — incorporating social media engagement tools — to facilitate communication amongst the public on topical legislative concerns, trends and potential bills.

In this section, I argue that the public consultation process concerning the Amendment Bill (No 2) lacked many of the essential elements of a meaningful and effective engagement process.