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Making a difference
 The ESRC funds world class social scientists to deliver the highest quality research on the most pressing economic and social issues that we face.
The ESRC is conducting a review to analyse the impact of its funded research and the extent to which its findings have been utilised and have improved and developed organisations. Short impact flyers have been produced to briefly comment on the demonstrable benefits and the extent to which the research has been worthwhile. - Adapting to climate change in Scotland - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 163KB)
- Analysing how water demand is handled in a drought - Programme Project (PDF, 970KB)
- Analysing Scotland's science strategy consultation - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.72MB)
- Analysing trends in couples’ employment and informal care since the 1990s - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 266KB)
- Assessing the economic costs of climate change - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 676KB)
- Audit approach shifts from business risk to regulation - Programme Project (PDF, 400KB)
- Bridging into family support - Impact Grant (PDF, 251KB)
- Broadening the base of the volunteer workforce - Impact Grant (PDF, 432KB)
- Citizens and the enviroment: Is Defra engaging? - Placement Fellowship
- Clearing the air over environmental consultancies - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.24MB)
- Coping with HIV/AIDS when help is unstable - Research Grant (PDF, 636KB)
- Developing bilingual learning in schools - Programme Project (PDF, 2.55MB)
- Developing renewable energy from the sea - Programme Project (PDF, 1.5MB)
- Do local renewable energy schemes really work? - Programme Project (PDF, 1.67MB)
- Enabling leading-edge research into ‘edrama’ - Programme Project (PDF, 1.27MB)
- Evidence of accountability - Impact Grant (PDF, 495KB)
- Enhancing educational research in Scotland - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 2.14MB)
- Exploring the economics of climate change - Impact Grant (PDF, 443KB)
- Family, friends and integration - Impact Grant (PDF, 432KB)
- Focus on young people - not in employment, education or training - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.92MB)
- Getting the best from public and voluntary partnerships - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.01MB)
- Heating up interest in micro-regeneration - Programme Project (PDF, 1.24MB)
- Helping Defra develop evidence based policymaking - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.16MB)
- Helping England's government offices develop their strategic role - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.65MB)
- Helping ensure value-for-money in government spending - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.94MB)
- Helping manage the impact on Britain's new immigration - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.19MB)
- Helping policymakers to define wellbeing: and promote it - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 540KB)
- Helping shape lifelong learning in wales - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.86MB)
- Helping Smaller Firms to Find their 'Strategic Space' - Impact Grant (PDF, 411MB)
- Helping south Africans research racism, ethnic conflict and peace building - Programme Project (PDF, 311KB)
- Helping the prime minister's team to develop health reform - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.56MB)
- How do multinationals manage their workers? - Research Grant (PDF, 1.51MB)
- How migrant networks boost entrepreneurship - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 348KB)
- How smaller firms respond to sorporate social responsibility - Impact Grant (PDF, 210MB)
- How the Internet is changing trade unions and job-seeking (PDF, 1.26MB)
- Investigating confidence in our criminal justice system - Placement Fellowship (335KB)
- Is cyberspace a social good? If so, who benefits? (PDF, 924MB)
- Informing Policy in Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.80MB)
- Learning how best to integrate new immigrants - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.47MB)
- Modernising local government in Northern Ireland - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.70MB)
- Outdated measures mask true UK business performance - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.81MB)
- Productivity, management practices - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 436KB)
- Promoting social inclusion in Northern Ireland - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 469KB)
- Providing academic insights at the heart of government - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 491KB)
- Raising awareness of women in science and technology - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.87MB)
- Researchers and military planners share ideas about intervention in Iraq - Impact Grant (PDF, 2.49MB)
- Shared medical databanks: whose information is it? - Programme Project (PDF, 971KB)
- Stakeholders in foreign, security and defence policy: expanding the public debate - Impact Grant (PDF, 2.19MB)
- Stripping the mystique from management consultancy - Programme Project (PDF, 2.10MB)
- Student takes the strain from physiotherapy practice - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 300KB)
- Supporting Ethnic Business to Help Deprived Communities - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.91MB)
- Tackling the gender gap in science and technology - Programme Project (PDF, 492KB)
- Teacher learning and engagement in curriculum reform - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.94MB)
- The 'risk, trust and betrayal' of social housing - Research Grant (PDF, 344KB)
- The world bank doctoral research and policy engagement consultation- Impact Grant (PDF, 415KB)
- Towards a better understanding of different innovation practices in the UK - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 492KB)
- UK tax and benefit system: knowledge transfer to students - Impact Grant (PDF, 552KB)
- Understanding employment relations in small firms - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 23.7MB)
- Understanding how cities respond to threats- Programme Project (PDF, 2.56MB)
- Understanding how scientists view embryos and stem cells - Programme Project (PDF, 900KB)
- Understanding impact through knowledge transfer chains in user institutions - Impact Grant (PDF, 467KB)
- Understanding Muslim religious authority in Europe - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 2.25MB)
- What being in work means for 'lone' mothers and their children - Programme Project (PDF, 1.89MB)
- What can being a KTP Associate do for your Career? - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.31MB)
- What do we really mean by water ‘scarcity’? - Programme Project (PDF, 3.89MB)
- What impact Knowledge Transfer Partnerships have? - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.55MB)
- What innovation work with outside partners does for business - Placement Fellowship (PDF, 1.58MB)
- Who - and where - we are, and what it means for the UK - Impact Grant (PDF, 1.86MB)
- Welfare reform: academic input to government consultation (PDF, 282KB)
- Youth gangs: the facts behind the headlines - Research Grant (PDF, 320KB)
Parliamentary briefings
 The ESRC sponsors the Parliamentary All Party Group on Social Science and Policy (APG) and holds regular meetings on topical issues of interest to Members. To complement the content of the meetings and to cover many more issues, the ESRC has initiated a series of Parliamentary Briefing notes that we hope Members will find of interest and helpful to both their Parliamentary and constituency work.
- A Global Economy (PDF, 459KB)
- Delivering Public Services in the UK (PDF, 269KB)
- Flooding (PDF, 2.93MB)
- Gang Culture (PDF, 155KB)
- Our Environment (PDF, 3.08MB)
- Participation (PDF, 3.59MB)
- Pensions(PDF, 767KB)
- Population Change (PDF, 370KB)
- Researching Socio-economic experts of the Nuclear Energy Debate (PDF, 166KB)
- Rising Debt (PDF, 391KB)
- Social Enterprise (PDF, 390KB)
- Stem Cells (PDF, 2.69MB)
- Welfare to Work (PDF, 171KB)
- Young People in the UK (PDF, 196KB)
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