Funding opportunities 

• Research Seminars Competition 2011-12
• E-Health Informatics Research Centres call
• Retail Knowledge Navigator
• ESRC/EPSRC/NSF ‘Sustainable Materials for Energy’ Funding Opportunity
• Knowledge exchange opportunities
• Student internships 2011-12
• ESPA's Evidence and Impact Research Grants

More funding opportunities

Launch of Global Uncertainties newsletter

The first issue of G-news, covering news, funding opportunities, and updates from the RCUK Global Uncertainties Programme, will be issued on Monday 19 September. If you wish to receive G-news, please email global.uncertainties@esrc.ac.uk

RCUK - Public Engagement with Research: Catalysts

Applications for funding are now welcome from UK Higher Education Institutions to embed public engagement with research within their organisation.

Research and Knowledge Exchange Fund

The ESRC-supported Research and Knowledge Exchange Fund from the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship has selected three successful 2011 awards. The projects focus on local enterprise partnership guidance, career transitions into social enterprise, and how voluntary and community organisations can adapt to public service delivery.

Latest research features

• Bank reform: Ringfencing retail banking
• Older people struggling in market economy
• Mashing maps for society
• Data services: a success story
• Innovation and the credit crunch
• Police numbers add up to less crime
• A-level results and B-level coverage
• Tired? Work in groups

More features

Research Outcomes: new output collection system

Building on feedback and comments from our users, the ESRC website will shortly introduce Research Outcomes, a new cross-council output collection system based on the ESRC Research Catalogue. Access to Research Outcomes will be provided to all Higher Education Institutions at the end of October, and to all grant holders from mid-November. The new system will use your existing Je-S username and password, so please ensure that your details are correct and up to date. For further information, please contact websupport@esrc.ac.uk.

Festival of Social Science: events online

The Festival of Social Science events for 2011 are now available on the ESRC website. The complete programme of events can also be downloaded as a PDF.

Events

• 22 September: Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space Conference
• 22 September: Human Behaviour and Climate Change student conference
• 22 September: SKOPE International Symposium: Skill measurement and Certification
• 26 September: IFS Annual Lecture, Esther Duflo: Rethinking policy towards global poverty
• 29 September: Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata

People

Professor John Van Reenen and Professor Francesco Caselli at the Centre for Economic Performance have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy.

Lord Nicholas Stern, LSE economist and Chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, has been appointed as member of the Advisory Group for the Green Investment Bank. The bank aims to accelerate the UK’s transition to a green economy, encouraging private investment in green infrastructure projects.

Dr Jean Adams at Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, has been elected to the post of General Secretary of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine Executive Committee.

Professor James Smith at the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics has been selected as member of the new RSE Young Academy of Scotland, which brings together innovative young academics, entrepreneurs, artists and professionals in Scotland.