Funding opportunities

• Indian-European Research Networking Programme
• Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme
• Innovation Research Initiative - Distributed Projects
• DFID-ESRC Growth Programme
• Digital Social Research: call for Sustainability projects
• Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures

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Demand management consultation - deadline

The ESRC is welcoming responses from the social science community to our proposed programme of measures for improved self-regulation and changes to peer review and submission practices. The deadline for responses is 16 June 2011.

ESRC Council appointments

Four new members have been appointed to the ESRC Council:

• Dr Justin Davis Smith, Chief Executive of Volunteering England, and Professor Simon Collinson, Warwick Business School, have been appointed for the period 1 April 2011-31 March 2014
• Professor Stuart Croft, Warwick University, and Professor Glynis Breakwell, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bath, have been appointed for the period 1 August 2011-31 July 2014.

Latest research features

• Jihad after bin Laden
• Productivity loss from town centre policies
• Changing signs for the Queen's speech
• Taking terror out of the community
• Smoking on the silver screen

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Genomics playwright

The ESRC Genomics Forum has appointed Peter Arnott as its first Resident Playwright, in partnership with the Edinburgh Traverse Theatre. The venture aims to inspire the creation of a genomics related play.

Understanding Society /BHPS Conference

The first Understanding Society/British Household Panel Survey Conference will take place 30 June-1 July 2011 at the University of Essex. The conference will showcase early findings from Understanding Society and other longitudinal studies such as the British Household Panel Survey, now part of Understanding Society.

International Benchmarking Review of UK Psychology

The international benchmarking review of UK psychology has been published (PDF, 1.53Mb)

UKDA Guide to Managing and Sharing Data

The UK Data Archive has published its revised and expanded Guide to Managing and Sharing Data, now in its third edition.

Events

• 18 May 2011: Young People and Religion conference
• 19-21 May 2011: Urban Conflicts Conference
• 23 May 2011: Building Capacity for Business Engagement with Impact conference
• 6-7 June 2011: CAGE Blue Sky Development Conference
• 9 June 2011: Housing and community empowerment - national conference

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People

Professor Judith Rees, Director of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, was appointed Interim Director at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2 May 2011.

Professor Alan Walker, Director of the New Dynamics of Ageing research programme, has been given an award for Advances in Gerontology and Geriatrics in the Social and Behavioural Sciences, by the European Region of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics.