What was the original name of the group that Will Wilkinson served as a research fellow at until August of 2010?
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Will Wilkinson Will Wilkinson (born 1973) is an American writer who currently serves as Vice President of Policy at the Niskanen Center. Until August 2010, he was a research fellow at the Cato Institute where he worked on a variety of issues including Social Security privatization and, most notably, the policy implications of happiness research. Wilkinson was also the managing editor of the Cato Institute's monthly web magazine, "Cato Unbound". Previously, he was Academic Coordinator of the Social Change Project and the Global Prosperity Initiative at The Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and, before that, he ran the Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students for The Institute for Humane Studies. His political philosophy is described by "The American Conservative" magazine as "Rawlsekian"; that is, a mixture of John Rawls's principles and Friedrich von Hayek's methods. Wilkinson formerly described his political views as libertarian, but he now rejects that label.
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Cato Institute The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries. In July 1976, the name was changed to the Cato Institute.
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Oxford Martin School The Oxford Martin School is a research and policy unit based in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. It was founded in June 2005 as the James Martin 21st Century School. It is named after its benefactor, James Martin, author of the books "The Wired Society" and "The Meaning of the 21st Century". Its Director is Achim Steiner, who took up the post in September 2016
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Toby Wilkinson Toby A. H. Wilkinson (born 1969) is an English Egyptologist and academic. He is the Head of the International Strategy Office at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and was previously a research fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge and Durham University. He was awarded the 2011 Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
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New York Institute for the Humanities The New York Institute for the Humanities (NYIH) is an academic organisation affiliated with New York University, founded by Richard Sennett in 1976 to promote the exchange of ideas between academics, professionals and the general public. The NYIH regularly holds seminars open to the public, as well as meetings for its approximately 150 Fellows.
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Restless Development Restless Development, is a youth-led development agency, known previously as Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW.) It was founded in 1985, by Jim Cogan OBE. Its mission is "to place young people at the forefront of change and development."
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Speaking of Research Speaking of Research (SR) is an international group which "aims to provide accurate information about the importance of animal research in medical and veterinary science". It was founded in March, 2008 by Tom Holder, an "energetic young British activist who played an active role in the Pro-Test movement at the University of Oxford," who moved to the US for the purpose of setting up such a group. Holder had previously been a spokesman for Pro-Test, as well as acting as emcee for their three demonstrations.
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Association of Los Alamos Scientists The Association of Los Alamos Scientists (ALAS) was founded on 30 August 1945, by a group of scientists, who had worked on the development of the atomic bomb at the Los Alamos Laboratory, a division of the Manhattan Project.
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Helen Neville Helen J. Neville, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned psychologist and neuroscientist. Neville is currently the Robert and Beverly Lewis Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of the Brain Development Lab, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oregon.
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Nicola Clayton Nicola Susan Clayton PhD, (born 22 November 1962) is a British psychologist. She is Professor of Comparative Cognition at the University of Cambridge, Scientist in Residence at Rambert Dance Company, a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where she is Director of Studies in Psychology, and a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2010.
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Lawrence Wilkinson Lawrence Wilkinson is Chairman of Heminge & Condell, a strategic advisory and investment firm, and cofounder of Global Business Network (GBN), where he helped pioneer the use of the scenario planning technique, now widely used by organizations in their strategic planning.
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Russell Foster Russell Grant Foster, CBE, FRS FMedSci (born 1959) is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi). He is also a Nicholas Kurti Senior Fellow at the Brasenose College at the University of Oxford. Foster and his group are credited with key contributions to the discovery of the non-rod, non-cone, photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGCs) in the mammalian retina which provide input to the circadian rhythm system. He has written and co-authored over a hundred scientific publications.
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Heather C. Allen Heather Cecile Allen (born 1960) is a professor and research chemist, who leads the Allen Group at Ohio State University. Dr. Allen's research focuses on interfacial phenomena, particularly those involving water and air. Her work has broad application ranging from medicine to climate change. She also develops nonlinear optical spectroscopy and microscopy instruments for the examination of interfacial surfaces.
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Wilkinson Award The Wilkinson Award is an Australian architectural prize presented by the Australian Institute of Architects (NSW Chapter) and was first awarded in 1961.
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Research program A research program (UK: research programme) is a professional network of scientists conducting basic research. The term was used by philosopher of science Imre Lakatos to blend and revise the normative model of science offered by Karl Popper's "falsificationism" and the descriptive model of science offered by Thomas Kuhn's "normal science". Lakatos found falsificationism impractical and often not practiced, and found normal science—where a "paradigm of science", mimicking an "exemplar", extinguishes differing perspectives—more monopolistic than actual.
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Helen Atkinson Helen Atkinson, CBE FREng (born 29 April 1960) is Graduate Dean at the University of Leicester and was previously the Head of the Department of Engineering. In 2010, she was designated one of the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement and featured in the Women of Outstanding Achievement Photographic Exhibition.
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Force11 FORCE11 (Future Of Research Communications and E-scholarship) is a non-profit, community-based organization established after the 2011 Beyond the PDF meeting in San Diego, dedicated to the transformation of scholarly communications through technology. It is a multi-disciplinary community, bringing together researchers, scholars, publishers, librarians, technologists, funders and anyone interested in building a scholarly communications infrastructure for 21st-century technology. FORCE11 holds an annual meeting, FORCE (formerly known as Beyond the PDF) which brings together these stakeholder groups for discussions and information sharing. FORCE11 also hosts community working groups that address issues in scholarly communications, e.g., data citation, software citation, the Resource Identification Initiative. Its founding principles are described in a manifesto published on October 28, 2011.
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Wigner fusion The Wigner fusion research groups are involved in magnetically confined nuclear fusion experiments around the world. Wigner fusion consists of 4 research groups and a few specialist focusing on special field of fusion research, 3 if which are located in the Department of Plasma Physics at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics and 1 in the Institute of Nuclear Techniques (INT) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in the coordination of the Wigner Research Centre for Physics. Wigner fusion connected to the European fusion research programme through EUROfusion consortium which coordinated fusion research in Europe. At Wigner fusion more than 40 researchers, engineers and technicians work together in these 4 research groups who are involved in more than half a dozen magnetic confinement experiments around the world, such as ITER, JET, Asdex-Upgrade, W7-X, KSTAR, EAST, MAST-Upgrade and COMPASS.
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G7 Research Group The G7 Research Group (formerly the G8 Research Group) is an independent source of information, analysis and research on the institutions, issues and members of the Group of Seven (formerly the Group of Eight) and the G7 Summit.
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Mike Jackson (systems scientist) Michael Christopher Jackson OBE (born 1951) is a British systems scientist, consultant and Emeritus Professor of Management Systems and former Dean of Hull University Business School, known for his work in the field of systems thinking and management.
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Richard G. Wilkinson Richard Gerald Wilkinson (born 1943) is a British social epidemiologist, author and advocate. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, having retired in 2008. He is also Honorary Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London and Visiting Professor at University of York. In 2009, Richard co-founded The Equality Trust. Richard was awarded a 2013 Silver Rose Award from Solidar for championing equality and the 2014 Charles Cully Memorial Medal by the Irish Cancer Society.
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JASON (advisory group) JASON is an independent group of elite scientists which advises the United States government on matters of science and technology, mostly of a sensitive nature. The group was first created as a way to get a younger generation of scientists—that is, not the older Los Alamos and MIT Radiation Laboratory alumni—involved in advising the government. It was established in 1960 and has somewhere between 30 and 60 members. Its work first gained public notoriety as the source of the Vietnam War's McNamara Line electronic barrier. Although most of its research is military-focused, JASON also produced early work on the science of global warming and acid rain. Current unclassified research interests include health informatics, cyberwarfare, and renewable energy.