Sentences with phrase «social think tank»

As the Director of the Vienna Art Institute, a privately financed cultural and social think tank, he is responsible for a monthly TV talk show with personalities from cultural, social and political fields.

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«Carly Fiorina was the only one who didn't sound like she had time - traveled from the Reagan administration,» says Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy and politics at Third Way, a left of center think tank.

The London - based National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a non-partisan think - tank, said in May that the economy of a European Union — free U.K. could be as much as 3.2 % smaller by 2030.

«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank focused on social - justice issues.

24 July 2012, Globe & MailA think tank founded to advance Jack Layton's social - democratic ideals is asking Canadians to share their thoughts about how the former NDP leader's final message...

Those thinking of exporting generally start with Britain, points out Alan Barrett of the Economic and Social Research Institute, a think - tank in Dublin.

The Happy Planet Index is put together by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), the U.K.'s leading think tank promoting social, economic, and environmental justice.

«The government will spare no effort to make sure there are no big swings in the property market,» says Ni Pengfei, a housing expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think tank.

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

Conferences bringing representatives of religious communions together with other concerned groups — foundations, think tanks, social scientists, ethicists — dot the landscapes of developed nations and occasionally others as well.

Social agencies, welfare groups, religious organizations, commercial concerns, all have marched into our communities — especially our inner - city communities — with preconceived notions of superimposing their structures upon a community, of afflicting a community with a structure that was developed in some think tank without consulting any significant forces within the community itself.

A new report by the Social Market Foundation think tank suggests the economic effect of Brexit could be so harsh that net migration to the UK will fall by 58 % next year.

Recognising these limitations, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Google Ideas (Google's own think - tank) currently co-chair the European Union's Radicalisation Awareness Network Working Group on the Internet and Social Media.

Established think - tanks across the political spectrum such as the Fabian Society, ippr, Demos, Policy Exchange, the Social Market Foundation, Civitas and so on will make a point of stating who the funder of any piece of work or any event is.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

Across the third sector of not - for - profit organisations and think tanks such as the Young Foundation and the RSA there has been a quickening of interest, see David Wilcox over at Social Reporter.

He is a local councillor in the London Borough of Southwark, Vice-Chair of the think - tank Policy Network, a member of the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation, and sits on the Scientific Council of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies.

Mr Duncan Smith founded the policy think - tank «Centre for Social Justice» (CSJ) which includes on its board party heavyweights William Hague, Oliver Letwin and David Willetts.

Addressing accredited party supporters, representatives of established institutions, think tanks, the former president said the time has come for the NPP to take over the affairs of Ghana and reaffirm the vision and mission of the NPP to uphold the rule of law, good governance and social advancement.

Mr Aitken is to lead a study for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank headed by Iain Duncan Smith which advises Conservative party leader David Cameron on social iSocial Justice (CSJ), a think tank headed by Iain Duncan Smith which advises Conservative party leader David Cameron on social isocial issues.

Centre for Social Justice and Policy Exchange are best regarded think tanks by ConservativeHome's «influentials panel»

This has resulted in the exchange of idea with think tanks such as IPPR, Policy Exchange, Social Market Foundation, Reform, CentreForum, Demos and Civitas among others.

Signatories include MPs from both sides of the chamber, social housing associations including Clarion and Peabody, «neoliberal» think tanks like the Adam Smith Institute, housing campaigning groups PricedOut and London YIMBY, and business groups such as the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

«Legatum has risen from nowhere, taken over by Philippa Stroud the former SPAD for Iain Duncan Smith, director of his think tank the Centre for social Justice and Christian fundamentalist.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Some years ago, his former think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, proposed a far more generous transferable allowance of # 20 a week.

Some forward - thinking Tory MPs have also done the same (notably Brandon Lewis on concessionary travel) and also some leading think tanks, including the Centre for Social Justice.

A policy and research think tank, VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, has pooh - poohed the Ministry of Education's response to the brouhaha over the textbook that depicted the human head as a part of the human body used for carrying objects.

Alongside the Centre for Social Justice it has been the most influential centre right think tank of the last decade.

At a think tank meeting about autism several years ago, molecular geneticist Simon Gregory spoke with mainstream and nonconventional doctors about oxytocin, the so - called «love hormone» that some doctors were using to treat symptoms of social disconnection in children with autism.

Chinese authorities have recorded energy consumption of polluters for years and used it to estimate emissions, but different institutes often come up with different results, due to a lack of unified methods, said Chen Hongbo, associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a key government think tank in Beijing.

Although the CDC largely withdrew from funding research on gun violence more than 20 years ago (under intense congressional pressure), there are active research programs in medicine, public health, law, and the social sciences under way in universities and think tanks.

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

Jennifer Franco, a researcher at the Transnational Institute, an international think tank in the Netherlands that advocates for social justice, said land grabbing has been going on for a long time and some of the increase is due to more awareness and reporting of it.

He researches rural regions and real estate issues at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an influential government think tank in Beijing.

The research drew on a combination of longitudinal studies by think tanks and organisations, data from online daters, research produced by experts from different fields of the social sciences and national omnibus data.

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It's good that Weingarten is opening up the social welfare debate, says Andrew Rotherham, codirector of the think tank Education Sector.

Innosight Institute is a not - for - profit, non-partisan think tank whose mission is to apply Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation to develop and promote solutions to the most vexing problems in the social sector.

The Civil Rights Project is a think tank that generates research on racial and social justice issues.

Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow, and vice president for external affairs of the conservative - leaning education think tank The Thomas Fordham Institute suggests meanwhile that the trend toward emphasizing student differences could be promoting social division rather than unity.

Fieler, a prominent social conservative who has spent big in the past to fight gay marriage, said he has directed his organization to spend $ 500,000 organizing the Common Core opposition and connecting it to his think tank's long - standing drive for school choice.

A different question — a good think - tank question — is how social scientists can determine, in the initial stages of a major reform like the Common Core, whether the «theory of action» is playing out as expected.

Her career spans from time as a front line bilingual adolescent crisis counselor, with La Raza Consortium, to spearheading national think tank efforts in education equity and social justice on the boards of Grantmakers for Education, the National Equity Project, and the National Coalition for Community Schools.

Agreed, part of that problem is related to the legislatures own hesitance in trying to counter the constant deluge of misinformation about taxes, income inequality, education, and social serves that emerges from right wing think [sic] tanks, talk radio, most of the «punditry,» and the neo-liberal water - carriers of the malefactors of great wealth.

But Dr David Green, director of think tank Civitas, told the BBC: «This approach is, to my mind, a kind of social engineering based on animosity to middle - class parents.

Earlier in his career, David worked as an Education Pioneer Fellow at the San Francisco Unified School District, and as an Associate Director of Data Analysis and Tools at CEB, a management think tank in Washington, D.C. David holds an MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (with concentrations in Social Entrepreneurship and Leadership & Ethics) and a BA in International Studies from Rhodes College.

But the economic think tank has decided to introduce a very different kind of test, addressing the type of skills young people need to navigate a world of «post-truth» and social media «echo chambers».

The think tank says there are four - year - olds so far behind that they do not know their own names and have the social skills of a two - year - old.