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SUMMARY:How can researchers better engage with national and global policym
 aking? - Charlotte Watts (DfID)\, Peter Sellen (Education Policy Institute
 )\, Roy Head (CEO of DMI) and Pauline Rose (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20170222T160000Z
DTEND:20170222T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Organised by Professor Anna Vignoles and Dr Ben Alcott\, Facul
 ty of Education\, and the Public Policy SRI.\n\nThe event will feature dis
 tinguished speakers from the fields of development and education\, and wil
 l run from 4-6 pm with time for questions and discussion.\n\nRefreshments 
 will be provided.\n\n*Please register "here":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
 e/how-can-researchers-better-engage-with-national-and-global-policymaking-
 tickets-31254574273?aff=eac2.*\n\n\n\n*Professor Charlotte Watts* is Chief
  Scientific Adviser to the Department for International Development\, wher
 e she is Director of the Research and Evidence Division. Charlotte is seco
 nded from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\, where she i
 s a Professor in Social and Mathematical Epidemiology. She is a global exp
 ert on HIV and on violence against women\, with her work over the past twe
 nty five years spanning analyses of the social\, economic and gendered det
 erminants of HIV risk\, mathematical modelling of disease trajectories\, i
 ntervention design and evaluation\, economic evaluation and co-financing a
 pproaches.\n\n*Peter Sellen* is Chief Economist at the Education Policy In
 stitute. Between 2006 and 2016 Peter worked as a Government economist\, in
 cluding time in the Department for Education as Head of Teachers and Teach
 ing Analysis\, and Head of Economics\, Evaluation & Appraisal at the Educa
 tion Standards Directorate. He has previously worked as an economic advise
 r on Infrastructure and Growth Strategy at HM Treasury and as head of affo
 rdable housing economics at Communities and Local Government.\n\n*Roy Head
 * is the CEO of Development Media International. DMI has conducted the fir
 st scientific trial to prove that mass media can change health-related beh
 aviours and is ranked by "GiveWell.com":http://www.givewell.org/ as one of
  the most cost-effective charities in the world. Roy’s earlier career in
 cluded time as a BBC television producer\, as a manager of UN radio and te
 levision campaigns in war zones\, and as founder of the BBC’s own health
  campaigns charity.\n\n*Pauline Rose* is Director of the Research for Equi
 table Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge\, a
 nd Senior Research Fellow at the UK Department for International Developme
 nt.
LOCATION:Boulind Room\, Mary Allen Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Roa
 d\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PH
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