Funding opportunities

• Scientific Leadership Team for the British Election Study
• Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme
• Consortia for Exploratory Research in Security
• ESRC-PIC Masters Studentship Scheme in population studies
• Belmont Forum and G8HORCS International Opportunities Fund
• Design for wellbeing: ageing and mobility in the built environment

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New edition of the Research Funding Guide

The Research Funding Guide has been revised to include relevant links to current Funding Opportunities and assessment information. It has also been re-formatted to provide guidance in chronological order from beginning to end of the grants process.

Media training in 2012-13

We will be running a selection of media training days around the country for ESRC-funded mid-career researchers between May 2012 and January 2013. If you would like further information or to register to attend, please visit the ESRC website or email charles.clerck@esrc.ac.uk.

SAMS/UKCES/ESRC Management and Business Development Fellowship Scheme

A new call for proposals under the jointly funded Management and Business Development Fellowship Scheme, opens on 23 May 2012. The scheme is being run in partnership by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS), the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) and the ESRC.

Further details will be available on the ESRC website on 23 May.

Latest research features

• One in four children face development risks
• Adult apprenticeships: quality or quantity?
• British Sign Language - on the record
• Social mobility report draws on ESRC-funded research
• Performing under pressure: ESRC research in BBC test
• Fear makes us co-operate

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Project Oracle

We are partnering with the Greater London Authority and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime under the Alliance for Useful Evidence, to extend the activities of Project Oracle, which aims to improve the evidence base for the efficacy of interventions aimed at children and young people in London

Evidence briefings

Our evidence briefings highlight research findings and their relevance in key policy areas.

Latest briefings

• Education vital for social mobility
• Health inequalities continue to undermine social mobility

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CASS programme 2012-13

The next courses under this programme are:

• 16-17 July: Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data, Southampton
• 19-21 September: How to Analyse Survey Data: Methods, Software and Applications, Southampton

Events

• 3 June: Third Sector Research Centre Meeting: Social Enterprise and Equality
• 21-23 June: PopFest 2012
• 26 June: BRASS Sustainable Supply Chain Management Workshop
• 28 June: Working with the Grassroots: Learning from community organisers, community development and community engagement
• 2-5 July: 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival
• 18 July: ESRC Final Year Student Conference

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People

Professor Geoff Payne and Professor Malcolm Williams (member of the ESRC Methods and Infrastructure Committee), were awarded the BSA/C-SAP award for teaching excellence in recognition of their efforts to promote quantitative research methods. They began championing quantitative analysis as an additional tool in the sociologist's tool box at a time when it was a significantly under used technique. Fortunately, things have changed. Both award-winners continue to hope for a balanced and mixed use of methods for the benefit of all sociological research.