Funding opportunities

• Birth Cohort Study - Chair of Governing Board
• Cohort Resources Facility Leadership Team Outline Call
• ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme for Research on International Development (Poverty Alleviation) Phase 2 Call 3
• ESRC-RGC (Hong Kong) bilateral call for proposals
• Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures
• ESRC-JSPS collaborative seminars competition
• High performance sport as a model for the acquisition, retention and retraining of an individual’s skill base

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Funding opportunities for 2011/12

We have streamlined and refocused our schemes to allow us to better deliver our priorities and commitments. An outline of the 2011/12 funding schemes is on our website.

Demand management - deadline

Please note that the deadline for providing comments on ESRC arrangements to manage research funding is 16 June 2011.

Festival of Social Science – event applications

For those wishing to hold an 2011 Festival of Social Science event the closing date for applications is 17 June 2011.

Latest research features

• Growing income despite the recession – but tough times ahead
• Revealing the value of nature
• Drowned Tudor girl may have inspired Shakespeare
• NHS reforms: what research says

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Award-winning virtual dentistry

The Technology Enhanced Learning programme’s hapTEL project has won one of this year’s four Medical Futures awards. The project’s virtual dental work-station won the award for ‘Best Educational Innovation’.

BRASS project wins award

Project Bernie, a collaboration between the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service and the Centre for Business Relationships Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) has won a CIPR Excellence Award from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). The project targets fire setting in South Wales.

Events

• 16-17 June 2011: CCP Annual Conference - Consumers in Competition Policy
• 30 June-1 July 2011: Understanding Society/BHPS Conference
• 21 June 2011: Effective parenting and child well-being: understanding the evidence base
• 21 June 2011: Too many people in Britain? Immigration and the housing problem
• 8 July 2011: Beyond the radar: maximising the impact of community activities

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People

We are sad to announce that pioneering sociologist Ray Pahl died on 3 June. Ray was a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and part of the team that established the British Household Panel Survey. He was recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Sociological Association.

Queen's Birthday Honours

Professor Peter Elias, Strategic Advisor for Data Resources, and Professor Christopher Hood, director of the Public Services programme, were awarded CBEs for services to social science. ESRC Council member Dr Justin Davis Smith was awarded a CBE for services to the voluntary sector.
Professor Ron Johnston at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation and John Loughhead, Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, were awarded OBEs for services to scholarship and technology, respectively. .

AIM Senior Fellow Professor Chris Huxham has been awarded the 2011 Routledge Award for outstanding contribution to the field of public management.