Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Participatory Peace-Building Program Wins ESRC Impact Prize
Improbable Dialogues, which works on peace-building initiatives in Colombia, was announced winner of the Outstanding Societal Impact award from the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2021.
ESRC Honors Coma/Consciousness Research for Outstanding Public Policy Impact
With proposing changes to the law to promote person-centered decision-making for ‘coma’ patients as the focus, Celia and Jenny Kitzinger’s research has benefitted over 68,000 patients in prolonged coma, vegetative or minimally conscious states
ESRC Honors Aston University’s CREME for Outstanding Business Impact
The Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CRÈME) was recently named the winner of the Outstanding Business and Enterprise Impact Award, from the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2020.
MoVE Project: Pandemic Opened Door to Greater Volunteer Action
Understanding how to create the conditions for a thriving civil society — that works in partnership with local governments and communities to […]
Layard Receives Lifetime Achievement Award as ESRC Names 2020 Impact Winners
Britain’s Celebrating Impact competition, now in its eighth year, recognizes and rewards ESRC-funded researchers who have achieved impact through outstanding research, knowledge exchange activities, collaborative partnerships and engagement with different communities.
Festival of Social Science Features Launch of New Robert Putnam Book
Political scientist Robert Putnam, whose book Bowling Alone achieved a popular and policy prominence that most social scientists can only dream of, will discuss his latest book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, co-written by Shaylyn Romney Garrett, in a virtual launch on November 5.
ESRC Names 2020 Finalists for Celebrating Impact Prize
Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council has named nine professors and two teams of researchers as finalists in its Celebrating Impact Prize […]
ESRC’s Effort to Develop Leadership in the Social Sciences: A Hunt for Unicorns?
Surely preparing Britain’s social science community to take the lead in a future of global and interdisciplinary team research isn’t a quest for a mythical beast? Matt Flinders, who heads an ESRC project trying to nurture that leadership, doesn’t think so – but he understands why someone might think it is.
