Funding opportunities

• 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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Knowledge Exchange Schemes

The ESRC will be opening its next round of Knowledge Exchange Schemes on 26 April 2011. This will include the Follow on Fund scheme and the new Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme.

Latest research features

• The scars of unemployment
• Reforming our banks
• Early impacts for London 2012 Games
• The gap years: education and social immobility

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Our Impact Toolkit offers a range of tips and guidance on media relations, networking and public engagement.

Carbon neutral website

The ESRC website is now 'officially green', with our web hosting service provider becoming the first in the UK to be certified as 100 per cent carbon neutral.

"Branching Out": new impact evaluation report

The new report “Branching out: New Directions in Impact Evaluation” is now available, discussing the ESRC’s latest economic impact evaluation studies and outlining the completed programme of innovative studies.

LARCI - end of funding

The Local Authorities Research Council Initiative (LARCI) has reached the end of its funding. To replace LARCI a range of research and knowledge exchange schemes run by Research Councils will be open to Local Authorities.

CFAS-Wales project launched

recently launched at Bangor University. The £3.3m project, funded by the ESRC and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, is a five year project that will investigate health, wellbeing and cognitive function in Wales.

Events

• 29/4/11: CRFR 10th anniversary annual conference
• 5/5/11: The future of work in the third sector
• 12-13/5/11: SERC 2011 Annual Conference
• 12-13/5/11: Fourth CRCEES Research Forum