ESRC in the news
Our research is often mentioned in newspapers and other publications. In February 2013 there were a total of 1,493 ESRC and ESRC investment related stories in the media. The ESRC received coverage on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Cambridge, BBC Radio Leicester, LBC London and the Q Radio Network. There were also mentions in The Guardian newspaper and a number of regional newspapers throughout the UK. Online coverage included the Guardian and BBC News websites. Overseas coverage included the Irish Times, RTE News Ireland, CBC (Canada), Zita (Belgium), NetIndia123 and NewsTrack India
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April 2013
- British Class system now has seven social classes (Daily Mail, 3 April 2013)
- Get kids to do jobs, don't give them pocket money (Daily Telegraph, 3 April 2013)
March 2013
- Digital toys aren't so bad after all (The Scotsman, 31 March 2013)
- Scottish poverty at worse level for 30 years (The Herald Scotland, 29 March 2013)
- Britain on the breadline (ITV website, 28 March 2013)
- Mental health patients who smoke ignored by NHS (BBC News website, 28 March 2013)
- New crackdown on 'education tourists'? (The Guardian, 27 March 2013)
- How to write a blog for the Public Leaders network (The Guardian, 27 March 2013)
- Too much TV makes kids naughtier by the time they are seven (Daily Mail, 26 March 2013)
- Immigration still foxes MPs (Evening Standard, 25 March 2013)
- French culture means they are a gloomy nature (The Observer, 24 March 2013)
- Should the government go ahead with cuts in the Budget? (BBC News website, 18 March 2013)
- Laws still don't protect violence against women (The Guardian, 15 March 2013)
- Test works out how the brain reads words (BBC News website, 15 March 2013)
- Panel chat on giving and receiving grants (The Guardian, 15 March 2013)
- How to develop your skills as a small community group (The Guardian, 12 March 2013)
- A picture of British women in the 21st century (Daily Mail, 8 March 2013)
- Men working longer to retire with their wives (Daily Telegraph, 8 March 2013)
- New research into impact of ageing families (Herald Scotland, 5 March 2013)
- Who voted for Ukip? (Channel 4 The Factcheck Blog, 4 March 2013)
- Government to try new 'What works' policies (The Independent, 4 March 2013)
- Link teachers' pay to pupils' exam results (Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2013)
February 2013
- The new Chief Social Scientist and the Government (The Guardian, 26 February 2013)
- The survival of companies when owners die (Forbes, 26 February 2013)
- Training in the voluntary sector - how to get ahead (The Guardian, 26 February 2013)
- Could Scotland cope with an east European rush? (Daily Express, 24 February 2013)
- Pupils who are excluded four times more likely to end up in jail (Herald Scotland, 22 February 2013)
- Swiss 'unhappy' with high paid bankers (Daily Mail, 22 February 2013)
- London's 'white British' now a minority (New Statesman, 20 February 2013)
- Vulnerable jobseekers often ignored because of 'cost' (The Guardian, 19 February 2013)
- Farmers claim that UK must have more migrants (Daily Express, 16 February 2013)
- Scotland can't go 'green' without the rest of the UK (The Guardian, 11 February 2013)
- Museum tells the real life stories behind its exhibits (stv news website, 11 February 2013)
- BBC review of the IFS Green Budget 2013 (BBC website, 6 February 2013)
- Born in summer - go to the bottom of the class (Sunday Telegraph, 3 February 2013)
January 2013
- Major history project on Gibraltar launched (Gibraltar Chronicle, 24 January 2013)
- Anti-immigrants fear (The Economist, 23 January 2013)
- Immigration is good for the economy (The Independent, 17 January 2013)
- Tall and short and in love (The Independent, 17 January 2013)
- Rise in leaving age improved GCSE grades (BBC News website, 16 January 2013)
- Tax payments down for the fourth year running (Huffington Post, 14 January 2013)
- Britain will be transformed by migration (Daily Telegraph, 9 January 2013)
- By 2050 one in five Britons will be a minority group (Daily Mail, 9 January 2013)
- Census data on social housing (The Guardian, 2 January 2012)
- Why we shouldn't stay in the Union (Scotsman, 1 January 2013)
- Handpumps that tell you water is scarce (The Guardian, 1 January 2013)