This features in depth research by The Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) at the Department of Social Policy and Social Research at the University of Oxford.
This conference aims to examine the gaps and barriers in integrating the social dimensions into green economy decision-making and to promote the role of social policy and research in addressing current and emerging challenges.
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This situation requires a new approach to research that is integrated, international, solutions-oriented and policy relevant, combining social, environmental and economic factors, across all domains of research as well as local knowledge systems.
She highlighted reports by the Public Accounts Committee and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a social policy research charity, that have raised shortcomings in the projects.
This is especially important given the findings of the UNESCO World Social Science Report 2010, revealing the marginal presence of South Asia in the domain of international social science research and its limited impact on policy making.
At APEC WES, I assembled a panel of five great women leaders representing the key sectors of the new innovation economy: Education and research, government and public policy, social entrepreneurs, and business and technology.
Future Earth will bring together natural scientists, social scientists, engineers and the humanities with funders and policy makers to align research agendas, understand and anticipate environmental change, and develop innovative solution.
Future Earth will bring together natural scientists, social scientists, engineers and the humanities with funders and policy makers to align research agendas, understand and anticipate environmental change, and develop innovative solutions.
The FDP plan would mark a decided shift toward a "two-class health-care system, " warns Gerd Glaeske, director of health economics and policy at the University of Bremen's Center for Social Policy Research.
Social science policy research fed by dialogues among policy makers, practionners from civil society, beneficiaries and participants of specific policy and programme interventions and researchers, will better inform and advise policy formulation process.
They will review trends from rapid growth in student numbers to the surge in private provision, address emerging new dynamics and their policy implications, examine the social responsibility of higher education, and recommend measures to promote equity and stimulate innovation and research.
There is a need for a new approach to research that is inter-disciplinary, solutions oriented and policy relevant, with a stronger social science component.
It is the only intergovernmental programme that aims to apply social science research to development issues, encouraging policy-oriented-research to face current global challenges, and bridging the gaps between researchers, civil society and policy-makers in order to allow them to work together, whilst respecting the individual role and place of each actor.
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