Research for policy and debates
Science, public policy and engagement: Debates on stem cell research in Brazil
... for research - only through donations involving the informed consent of parents - is far from ...and research human embryo banking have frequently been denounced by local academics and the ...cell ...
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Current debates on infrastructure policy
... What can be done to deal with access and affordability problems? Affordability and access issues were already well-known when the reforms of the 1990s where implemented. But efficiency concerns prevailed over equity or ...
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Deconstructing 'Aspiration': UK policy debates and European policy trends
... a research project on the construction of ‘aspiration’ in and through policy debates in the United ...Genealogy, policy documents were analysed for the discursive strategies they ...
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Statistics in Dutch policy debates on health and healthcare
... Characterisation of analysed debate and sources of statistics Dementia The policy debate on dementia focuses on the recent Deltaplan Dementia. This plan involves a programme stimulating ...
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Evaluation in French Higher Education: history, policy and debates.
... At the level of universities, evaluation practices have been very limited. As they controlled a small share of research funding, their internal evaluation of research projects was negligible. Since ...
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Language Debates and the Changing Context of Educational Policy in Morocco
... Previous research, however, (Boukous, 1995; Bullock, 2014; Ferguson, 1959) has shown that Moroccans hold negative attitudes towards their mother tongues (Darija and Tamazight) because of the low status that these ...
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Discourse network analysis: policy debates as dynamic networks
... of policy debates, derive interesting quantities of debates like the degree of polarization, the presence of coalitions, coalition-switching behavior of actors, brokerage, and cohesion or congruence ...
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Journalistic metadiscourse: press coverage of media policy debates
... My Research Question is, therefore, “How did the British press use a strat- egy of minimization, if at all, in the media policy debate that stemmed from the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and the ...
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The strategic uses of evidence in UK e-cigarettes policy debates
... It is clear then that the goal of consensus within the wider public health community is a key strategic device within the e-cigarette debates and an objective to be pursued. Whilst actors present this in terms of ...
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Educational financing and improvement: conceptual issues and policy debates in the UK
... education, which undermines the ability to target resources to enhance access and to support a quality educational provision. Equity arguments are also invoked about the claim that, given the evidence of substantial ...
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Religious Education Under Siege: Policy and Ideological Debates in Indonesia
... yet research which evaluates the effectiveness of this model, a mutual understanding amongst diverse religious traditions seems to be neseccarily applied, not only related to sole theological dialogues but also ...
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History of US Policy Debates over Graduate Education with a Focus on IGERTs
... Research UWAB faculty, students, and researchers from many scientific fields collaborate to explore key research areas in the interdisciplinary field of astrobiology. These areas include understanding Earth ...
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Climate change as a knowledge controversy: investigating debates over science and policy
... This research provides an important theoretical contribution to the thesis, particularly in terms of the links made between science studies and theories within psychology, sociology and ...
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The influence of neoconservatism on US foreign policy debates during the Obama administration
... of policy networks. However, while the policy network under examination in this research may be open to a wider range of actors than concept of iron triangles suggests, it is not as open and easy to ...
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Rethinking emotion: New research in emotion and recent debates in cognitive science
... Frank illustrates his analysis of guilt with the following example. Consider two people, Smith and Jones, who wish to engage in a potentially profitable joint-venture, such as starting a restaurant. Their potential for ...
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Defining minimum income (and living) standards in Europe : methodological issues and policy debates
... the research process, all methodologies involve a mix of expert knowledge, public reasoning and social statistics to form a budget ...of research methods, we might consider the experience of applied ‘real ...
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Landmarks. Multilingualism, Language Policy and the Constituent. Assembly Debates. S. Imtiaz Hasnain
... Discrimination of a language, on the other hand, involves use of language in education, as a medium of instruction, as a taught language, etc. Art. 29 mitigates this discrimination by giving the fundamental right to “any ...
Testing and ideology: policy debates about literacy assessments for Colorado’s bilingual students
... under colorblind notions of collective benefits and a ‘race radical’ vi- sion rooted in the US Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th Century that actively contested racial and linguistic oppression. These works inform ...
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No. 06: The Informal Sector’s Role in Food Security: A Missing Link in Policy Debates
... identify policy-relevant research ...the policy environment. First we assess the food security policy position and the post-apartheid policy response to the informal sector – ...
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Shadowing research in organizations : the methodological debates
... a research technique designed to happen at the pace and place(s) of organising (Czarniawska, this issue), setting it apart from all the other methods featured ...
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