Sentences with phrase «social policy impacts»
Since the Spending Review of 2010 The Centre for Welfare Reform has tried to understand the overall impact of the cuts, changes to the benefit system and other social policy impacts on disabled people and people in poverty.
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«I might also think of reviewing the social media policy, considering how off - duty conduct could impact the company's brand management.
Please note that when you borrow money from a life insurance policy, it doesn't show up as income and has no impact on financial aid or the tax rate on Social Security benefits.
«Like many of our social impact initiatives, the innovation and inspiration comes from our partners who are volunteering in and contributing to their communities,» said John Kelly, senior vice president, Starbucks Global Responsibility, Community and Public Policy.
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»
The decision your government, or any government, makes with respect to the Health and Social transfers to the Provinces / Territories will seriously impact the future size and policy role of the federal government.
Long after leaving active duty, they continue to vote, volunteer and serve their communities at a high rate, serving as the best examples of citizenship,» said John Kelly, senior vice president, Social Impact & Public Policy.
«policies and practices to address environmental or social factors that have an impact on shareholder value»
Dr. Ryan has authored and co-authored many public policy reports, conference papers and academic articles relating to these diverse projects, including «Why Some Venture Capitalists Escalate And Others Don't», «The Psychology of Microfinance» and «The Future of Social Entrepreneurship and Impact.»
The «right to die» and «death with dignity» proposals, while appealing to excruciatingly painful individual cases, would have, if they carry the day, what May calls a «cumulative impact» upon social policy and attitudes.
When the defenders of government social policies recovered from the initial impact of Murray's assault and launched their counterattack, they concentrated on his interpretation of the statistical data.
The Danforth Study of Campus Ministries, published ten years ago under the audaciously inclusive title The Church, the University, and Social Policy, has probably had little measurable impact on any of the three communities addressed — which focus respectively on goodness, truth and power — much less on strengthening their linkage with one another.
And, just as we have accepted the importance of monitoring and reporting on the impact of certain policies and activities on the balance of nature, we should try to do the same for endangered or fragile social environments.
In October 1977 the entire panel was assembled for an Energy Ethics Consultation, at which an effort was made to assess technologies and policies for energy use and production in terms of their consistency with Christian ethical concern for the social impact.
Promote the reduction of food loss and waste through policies, guidance and other tools that will strengthen communities and reduce the associated environmental, social, and economic impacts.
Raise awareness for the work of the organization in order to reach more families, facilitators and policy makers, to ultimately impact social change.
Key themes are: a) The impact of maternal health policy at a health system and service delivery level, and on health outcomes and users» experiences b) The social and organisational implications of the translation of innovative health technologies into health care.
Much of contemporary social science and policy research is concerned with fathers» impacts on children's socioemotional development.1, 2 Yet material contributions made by fathers («breadwinning») remain central to an array of impacts on children, 3 including with respect to children's educational attainment and prospects for social success.
It featured contributions from Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR), Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp — American Politics and Policy), Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog), Chris Bertram (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, blogger with the group blog Crooked Timber), William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute), David Levy (Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) and Will de Frietas (Business & Economy Editor, The Conversation).
Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp — American Politics and Policy) and Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog)
These questions barely scratch the surface, because the complex interplay between general advancements of computational social science and hovering satellite topics like political bots will have an enormous impact on research and using data for policy.
That means the domestic social consequences, such as the impact on inequality, would be an important factor, and I think managed migration with a policy of integration and citizenship is important, as I have often argued.
Thus, the shared political culture has a more permanent impact on the shaping of foreign policy than the differences in social culture.
Third, the committee recommends «an impact assessment applied to every government policy, statutory instrument, and new bill, which asks the simple question: «what substantively will this do to build social capital, people power, and social entrepreneurs?»»
That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the UK Government's policies on Wales; notes the UK Government's real - terms reduction of the Welsh Budget by # 1.5 bn; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the Bedroom Tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the Bedroom Tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.
In that time, FPI's work has provided policy research and analysis to support the value and impact of government economic and social investments.»
«I would urge you to continue to collect this data both so that we continue to have the same evidence - based argument for justice, but also so that we can prove that the policy changes work because we need to be able to prove that, that what we all know on an ideal level really will have an economic and social impact,» Clinton said.
Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda
«On our part, the National Social Protection Policies designed to rescue Nigerians out of poverty and vulnerability, would further help to restore abundance in the general well being of the citizens as lives would be positively impacted through this scheme», he stressed.
American Political Science Association (APSA): The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.
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Michael Meaney, who studies the impact of nurturing, likewise wonders what the implications of epigenetics are for social policy.
«We know that workplace violence disproportionately impacts health care and social service providers,» said Bride, who is director of the School of Social Work in the university's Andrew Young School of Policy Stsocial service providers,» said Bride, who is director of the School of Social Work in the university's Andrew Young School of Policy StSocial Work in the university's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
They do social science, health, philosophical, policy, or legal research on topics such as privacy, confidentiality, the psychological impact of genetic information, informed - consent issues in genomics research, commercialization of genetic products, genetically modified foods, behavioral genetics, gene testing, and gene therapy.
«You can not just jump and assume that any vegetarian diet is going to have a low impact on the environment,» said Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decision sciences and engineering and public policy and one of the authors of the study.
The most significant past and current mine sites in the watershed are identified, environmental consequences of those operations are described and options for policy action to address environmental and social impacts are considered.
Marine policy / fisheries management, marine environmental anthropology, stakeholder participation and local knowledge in policy - making, collaborative fisheries research, ethnographic fieldwork, social impact assessment
Scientific knowledge percolation process and social impact: a case study on the biotechnology and microbiology perceptions on Twitter — Beatriz Barros — Science and Public Policy
In this context, we aim to explore the impact of policy instruments — in particular risk - coping mechanisms, environment - related policies and land use policies — on the social - ecological resilience of smallholders.
New website Project JUST is a forum for consumers to research fashion brands» manufacturing policies, and environmental and social impacts, all while aiming to bring transparency to the industry.
Yes, at the margins, we delve into her biography to the extent it impacts her social policy ideas.
Given the various social, economic, and educational factors at work before and after NCLB was implemented, it is difficult to draw strong conclusions about the policy's impact from a simple comparison of achievement trends before and after enactment of the law.
Despite the challenges of isolating the impact of school desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation policies and students» academic and social outcomes.
Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.
Our ultimate goal is meaningful change in policy and practice that produces substantially larger impacts than current best practices on the learning capacity, health, and future economic and social mobility of vulnerable young children.
For example, I would like to create awareness about impact U.S foreign policy has had on the economic development and social conditions of Latin American countries, and in pushing and pulling people to emigrate to the United States.
Highlights this fall include a conversation with Claude Steele, social psychologist, executive vice chancellor and provost for University of California, and author of Whistling Vivaldi, about how stereotypes can impact education; a discussion about the use of race in college admissions with Economic Policy Institute Research Associate Richard Rothstein and Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin; and a forum about education leadership.
Chancellor George Osborne discusses the impact of new insights from economics and the social sciences on the Conservative Party's policies.
The 4,000 teachers, social entrepreneurs, policy makers and business leaders attending the Impact Conference will debate and discuss how to the new government can work with teachers, charities and business to ensure no child falls through the gaps between education, employment or training.
David Figlio, Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss his research on the impact these Haitian refugee students had on the non-refugee students who were already attending those schools.