How can researchers better engage with national and global policy making?

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Description:	This event brings together speakers from government, academia and the third sector to discuss how educational research can better engage with policy making, both within the UK and international development.

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2017-02-28 09:33

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Seminar Uploads

Publisher:

University of Cambridge

Faculty of Education and Cambridge Public Policy SRI

Language:

eng (English)

Keywords:

Education; Policy Research; UK; International Development; Charlotte Watts; Peter Sellen; Roy Head; Pauline Rose; Anna Vignoles;

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Person:	Charlotte Watts
Person:	Peter Sellen
Person:	Roy Head
Person:	Pauline Rose
Person:	Anna Vignoles


Abstract:	Speakers: Professor Charlotte Watts is Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for International Development, where she is Director of the Research and Evidence Division. Charlotte is seconded from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she is a Professor in Social and Mathematical Epidemiology. She is a global expert on HIV and on violence against women, with her work over the past twenty five years spanning analyses of the social, economic and gendered determinants of HIV risk, mathematical modelling of disease trajectories, intervention design and evaluation, economic evaluation and co-financing approaches. Peter Sellen is Chief Economist at the Education Policy Institute. Between 2006 and 2016 Peter worked as a Government economist, including time in the Department for Education as Head of Teachers and Teaching Analysis, and Head of Economics, Evaluation & Appraisal at the Education Standards Directorate. He has previously worked as an economic adviser on Infrastructure and Growth Strategy at HM Treasury and as head of affordable housing economics at Communities and Local Government. Roy Head is the CEO of Development Media International. DMI has conducted the first scientific trial to prove that mass media can change health-related behaviours and is ranked by GiveWell.com <http://givewell.com/> as one of the most cost-effective charities in the world. Roy’s earlier career included time as a BBC television producer, as a manager of UN radio and television campaigns in war zones, and as founder of the BBC’s own health campaigns charity. Pauline Rose is Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Research Fellow at the UK Department for International Development. Chair: Professor Anna Vignoles is Professor of Education (1938) at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely on widening participation in higher education, social mobility, the impact of school resources on pupil achievement and on the socio-economic gap in pupil achievement. Her research interests include issues pertaining to equity in education, school choice, school efficiency and finance and the economic value of schooling.

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Speakers:

Professor Charlotte Watts is Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for International Development, where she is Director of the Research and Evidence Division. Charlotte is seconded from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she is a Professor in Social and Mathematical Epidemiology. She is a global expert on HIV and on violence against women, with her work over the past twenty five years spanning analyses of the social, economic and gendered determinants of HIV risk, mathematical modelling of disease trajectories, intervention design and evaluation, economic evaluation and co-financing approaches.

Peter Sellen is Chief Economist at the Education Policy Institute. Between 2006 and 2016 Peter worked as a Government economist, including time in the Department for Education as Head of Teachers and Teaching Analysis, and Head of Economics, Evaluation & Appraisal at the Education Standards Directorate. He has previously worked as an economic adviser on Infrastructure and Growth Strategy at HM Treasury and as head of affordable housing economics at Communities and Local Government.

Roy Head is the CEO of Development Media International. DMI has conducted the first scientific trial to prove that mass media can change health-related behaviours and is ranked by GiveWell.com <http://givewell.com/> as one of the most cost-effective charities in the world. Roy’s earlier career included time as a BBC television producer, as a manager of UN radio and television campaigns in war zones, and as founder of the BBC’s own health campaigns charity.

Pauline Rose is Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Research Fellow at the UK Department for International Development.

Chair:

Professor Anna Vignoles is Professor of Education (1938) at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely on widening participation in higher education, social mobility, the impact of school resources on pupil achievement and on the socio-economic gap in pupil achievement. Her research interests include issues pertaining to equity in education, school choice, school efficiency and finance and the economic value of schooling.

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