All Research Councils publish Delivery Plans as a final product of a Government Spending Review. The Plans set out each Council’s funding priorities and outline the activities that they intend to undertake over a given period. The ESRC have recently released…
AHRC Opportunities: Empathy and Trust In Communicating Online (EMoTICON) Sandpit
6-10 January 2014 (Cranage Hall, Cheshire) The AHRC is working in partnership with ESRC, EPSRC, Dstl and CPNI, to commission new research to develop a greater understanding of how empathy and trust are developed, maintained, transformed and lost in social…
AHRC and ESRC drop PhD Support From Open Research Calls
The Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council have announced that they will only support PhD students in strategic areas. The councils say that, from 1 November, no funding will be provided for project-linked…
ESRC Funding: Evaluating the Business Impact of Social Science: A Study of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the Private Sector
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has issued an invitation for tenders for an evaluation of the business impact of social science: a study of knowledge transfer partnerships in the private sector. The small scale study will evaluate the…
Social policy research specialist becomes new distinguished professor at Lincoln
One of the country’s leading social policy researchers, whose work has helped to redefine how poverty is measured, has joined the University of Lincoln. Professor Stephen McKay becomes Distinguished Professor of Social Research in Lincoln’s School of Social and Political…
Don’t merge the research councils, says British Academy
Merging the Arts and Humanities Research Council with the Economic and Social Research Council would bring no advantage, the British Academy has claimed in its evidence to the triennial review of the research councils. A single body for the research…