Sentences with phrase «public policy research»

The Centre will train early and mid-career researchers in the art and science of public policy research for health, putting particular emphasis on the policy relevance of the research.

Kathryn Hickok is Executive Vice President at Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon's free market public policy research organization.

We said at the time that we had discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.

A poll conducted by the Louisiana State University Public Policy Research Lab indicates that nearly half of Louisianans had still not heard much about the standards by early 2014.

2012 - 15 Executive Branch Fellow at USAID Katherine Himes has become director of the James A. and Louise McClure Center for Public Policy Research at the University of Idaho.

Kathryn Hickok is Publications Director and Director of the Children's Scholarship Fund - Oregon program at Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon's free market public policy research organization.

«We have discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change diverted attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

Asked after the speech, at the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank in London, how she envisaged balancing her hope for what she called an «enabling» immigration system with some voters» concerns on new arrivals, Abbott said it was vital to accentuate the positives.

Some details of how this can done are in a chapter I wrote for the Institute of Public Policy Research recently.

This may seem quite a turnaround for a company which has been characterized by the National Center for Public Policy Research as «the -LSB-...]

The Pioneer Institute of Public Policy Research released a detailed paper on the effectiveness of the Match Corps tutoring program.

Localism was fast becoming the new fashion in progressive politics, championed by think - tanks such as Policy Exchange on the right and the Institute for Public Policy Research on the left.

The Institute For Public Policy Research revealed that fathers who have good relationships with their kids had an overall increase in psychological well - being.

In an address to the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank in London, she called for a federal UK founded on a «new Act of Union» that included repatriating to Scotland the EU's powers in areas like fisheries, farming and employment rights.

Lisa Snell, director of education at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, said she thinks it will be «extremely difficult» to get the changes Vergara sought through the Legislature, especially considering its track record.

The Australia Institute is an independent public policy research centre funded by grants from philanthropic trusts, memberships and commissioned research.

My name is Aaron Smith and I am a policy analyst with Reason Foundation, a non-profit think that conducts public policy research in several areas including education.

The Canada West Foundation is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit public policy research institute dedicated to introducing western perspectives into current Canadian policy debates through: the production and dissemination of objective research to serve as a catalyst for informed public debate; and initiatives for active citizen education and engagement in the Canadian public policy process.

In February 2006, the Institute for Public Policy Research published a report calling for elected mayors in Birmingham and Manchester, which was positively received by the government, but not by the two city councils concerned.

«A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research concluded that childcare policies that focus purely on the expansion of the offer for 3 and 4 year olds are not the best way to support families.

Dr. Marc Stears, a lecturer at University College, Oxford, and fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research spends a lot of time thinking about this kind of stuff.

A report published last year by the Institute for Public Policy Research estimated that nuclear new - build could boost GDP by up to 0.34 per cent per year — equivalent to # 5.1 bn in 2011 — for 15 years.

In response to the poor short - term economic outlook, the Institute for Public Policy research recommended an increase in the government's capital spending.

The elder son of the late Marxist thinker Ralph Miliband, and a graduate of Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he worked as an analyst for the Institute for Public Policy Research before serving as head of Tony Blair's policy unit in Downing Street and writing the 1997, 2001 and 2005 general election manifestos.

Citizen's Committee for Children: Combining public policy research and data analysis with citizen action, Citizen's Committee for Children casts light on the issues, educates the public, engages allies, and identifies and promotes practical solutions to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated and safe.

Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey claimed «ignorant» climate change sceptic Conservatives are contributing to «extreme weather events» in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research earlier.

Kelly was a member of a commission set up by the Institute for Public Policy Research into the Private Finance Initiative, which expressed some scepticism about the operation of the policy.

Professor Sarah Birch's research for the Institute for Public Policy Research shows the toxic effect of these two factors together: only a third of under - 35s earning # 10,000 or less voted, so their voice was swamped by the 80 % of over-55s earning # 40,000 or more who did.

Analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggested the partial U-turn would cost # 700m a year by 2020/21 — compared with the # 3bn a year taken out of work allowances previously announced.

The PRI established the Canadian Policy Research Awards (CPRA) in 1999 as a way of encouraging public policy research.

From DC I moved to Mexico City, where I conducted research on the labor recruitment process of foreign temporary workers on a Fulbright public policy research grant — I first learned about the grant opportunity from members of my PPIA cohort.

Prior to joining Chiefs for Change, Krysten worked for four years in higher education at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), where she managed the department's public policy research initiatives and developed experiential learning programs in the Middle East.

Washington Policy Center, the state's premier public policy research and education organization, has completed non-partisan, objective analysis of all statewide propositions appearing on this year's ballot, including Referendum 55, which asks voters to decide if a limited experimental charter school law, which the Legislature passed earlier this year, should be passed...

This Michigan State University unit provides public policy research and political leadership training through its Michigan Political Leadership Program and Legislative Leadership Program.

The Institute of Public Policy Research said there was a risk the plans could usher in «a chaotic reorganisation of schools, which neither central government nor school leaders have the capacity to deal with».

«The economic status of the family that a child comes from is the biggest predictor of academic achievement — even more than the school they attend,» said Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research institution.

Dēmos (the bar over the e tells you it is pronounced deemos and that they are hugely sophisticated) describes itself as «a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization.»

In addition to the warnings on adverts and at airports, carbon offsetting charges should be included in flight fares, with passengers forced to opt out rather than opt in, the Institute for Public Policy Research demanded in its latest report.»

Decades of climate science and years of public policy research came together last year on the losing side of a 4 - 1 vote approving a rural development along Virginia's Chesapeake -LSB-...]

Hopes dashed again, Horace Cooper of the Exxon et al - funded National Center for Public Policy Research introduces the next session on what to do and how to respond to global warming: «What should America's approach be to this?»

Well, maybe, but Tom Borelli pointed out in a National Center for Public Policy Research press release that the new rules will actually work against the promoters of energy - rationing policies.