Sentences with phrase «social researcher»

Social researchers design, manage and undertake research projects to investigate social issues such as employment, unemployment, gender, health, education and social policy.

A 2007 European Commission — funded report put together by a network of social researchers in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom found that black, migrant, and ethnic minority women scientists were underrepresented in all seven countries.

Despite these hardships, the average American was healthier during this period than during the economic booms that preceded and followed it, according to social researcher José Tapia Granados and his co-author Ana Diez Roux, both of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Based on input from real people with real coffee dates, credit card debts and taste buds, the resulting Live Well Plan is designed to level out — not cancel — your favourite snacks and treats, says author and social researcher Dr Rebecca Huntley.

«We did it because we recognised that artists are often like social researchers, picking up major cultural shifts in society.

Social researchers undertake research projects to investigate a number of social issues and then report their findings.

In her book «Daring Greatly,» social researcher Brené Brown suggests that the reason these close relationships pack so much power is because of the attachments we have to one another.

Many at the marches agreed with social researcher Hugh Mackay's analysis that the Budget not only turns its backs on the problem of inequality, it exacerbates it.

Every person exuded a fire in their belly about playing their part to help alleviate food insecurity, whether they be a plant pathologist like myself, an economist, a social researcher or a nutritionist, to name just a few of the vocations I came across.

Social researchers have shown for decades that women don't by some biological hocus - pocus instinctively know better than men how to care for babies and children.

From talking to my wife (a social researcher of offenders) there are some very interesting repercussions.

Historians and social researchers have studied how the specific skills and bodily and mental capacities that have to be cultivated and practiced if specific forms of violence are to be engaged in are acquired.

«You have sometimes one professor... who can encourage you to achieve your research or your studies, but... at the moment, it's quite difficult for ethnic minority students [and] women students to collectively get support at the university,» says Nouria Ouali, a social researcher at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.

The Policy Tracker makes it easy for policymakers, journalists, social researchers, and advocates to quickly and accurately compare state policies and programs vital to the well - being of low - income families.

Most Scots will answer in the affirmative if asked whether they favor Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, notes Robert Johns, a social researcher at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Claire Gaskin is a social researcher who previously worked in the counselling field.

It is however unclear how this positive sorting comes about, because marriage is an equilibrium outcome arising from a process that entails searching, meeting and choosing one another, a process that is usually a black box to social researchers.

Ms. HeartBeat (Deborrah Cooper), a social researcher, dating expert, author and advice columnist, serves as producer and host of The Date Smarter.

Claire Gaskin is a social researcher who previously worked for many years in the counselling field.

The conference will be of interest to artists, photographers, urbanists, social researchers, architects and planners, and those concerned with cultural activism.

Over the past two years, Mexico City - based Antonio Vega Macotela and his father, Antonio Vega Silva, a social researcher, have been assembling, researching and archiving broken and abandoned tools found in flea markets and swap meets.

Let us assume for this exercise that around $ 15,000 per capita constitutes a «happiness threshold» where real improvements in welfare and happiness stops being strongly correlated with increased wealth, as some social researchers contend.

... It will be a gathering of those from the top of society — «psychotherapists, social researchers, climate change activists, eco-psychologists» — who will analyse those at the bottom of society, as if we were so many flitting, irrational amoeba under an eco-microscope.

Social researchers are individuals who scheme, design and run social research ventures.

A social researcher «s CV must contain details of his educational background as well as job objectives along with his career experience and skills.

A social researcher will use a variety of methods to gather their information; this can include questionnaires, focus groups and interviews.

thoughtful, creative, and passionate political, economic and social researcher, analyst and writer with superior public speaking skills, organizational and small group leadership abilities

© 2009 Wednesday Martin, Ph.D., author of Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do Author Bio Wednesday Martin, Ph.D., is a social researcher and the author of Stepmonster: a New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do (2009).

Indeed, social researchers have suggested we have some key needs that are critical to be met for our optimal functioning.