Annual Report 2010-11

The Annual report and Accounts 2010/11 has been published, providing information on the ESRC's activities during the previous financial year.

Funding opportunities

• UK Data Service – Core
• Global Uncertainties Leadership fellows
• Future Research Leaders
• Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures: increased funding
• Open Research Area in Europe
• Active and healthy ageing across the life course
• International Partnership and Networking Scheme
• ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme for Research on International Development (Poverty Alleviation) Phase 2 Call 3

More funding opportunities

CASS Short Course Programme for 2011/12

Full details of the new Courses In Applied Social Surveys (CASS) Short Course Programme for 2011/12 are now available from the CASS website.

Latest research features

• Drilling in the teeth of 3D
• Jobless immigrants prefer to leave
• Making a happy society
• When Welsh copper conquered the world
• The fashion of faith
• Reforming our prisons

More features

Delivery Plan – regional presentations

In June 2011 we presented the detail of our Delivery Plan to our research community at a number of regional events. Download the presentation (PDF, 278Kb)

The Migration Observatory

The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society has recently set up The Migration Observatory, providing user-friendly access to analysis of data on migrants and migration issues.

Easy search in census data

InFuse is a new interface to UK Census aggregate datasets, making it easier to search data across datasets and interpret the data by providing metadata bundled with the data downloads.

People

Professor Maureen McNeil of Lancaster University has recently been appointed to the role of Associate Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen). Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh, BRASS (Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society) associate, has accepted the invitation to join the Welsh Government’s Climate Change Commission for Wales.