Grants
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Professor Simon Deakin | 31 March 2013
The aim of the project is to understand the role of labour law in alleviating poverty in developing countries and to produce a diagnostic tool or template to assist those who are reforming labour laws to do so in a way which is appropriate to the sta ...
Dr Laura Coroneo | Economics | 16 March 2013
The recent financial, economic and sovereign debt crises have highlighted how financial markets and economic activity around the world are strongly interconnected. These linkages pose a significant challenge to both macroeconomists and financial econ ...
Dr Angus Armstrong | 02 March 2013
The aim of this project is to re-examine the role of public policy in a modern banking system. We propose three separate studies. First, the policy debate over whether to separate specific banking activities (volcker rule and vickers report) depends ...
Professor Stephen Roper | Entrepreneurship | 01 February 2013
The enterprise research centre (erc) is an independent research centre which aims to provide trusted, robust and independent commentary on sme research and policy. Erc has six core research programmes focussing on entrepreneurial intentions, sme lead ...
Dr Jonathan Reynolds | 01 February 2013
We are not short of rhetoric and opinion on the future of retail places in the uk. We are short, however, of rigorous, evidence-driven analysis. This timely project seeks to combine the data resources of the local data company with the 25 years' expe ...
Professor Tim Jackson | Earth Resources | 01 February 2013
Passage aims to explore the relationship between sustainability and prosperity in the context of the ‘green economy’. The award will support professor jackson over three years in two principal tasks. The first of these is to synthesise th ...
Dr David Guile | 21 January 2013
This project aims to generate new interdisciplinary insights into processes of innovation and economic growth by exploring the ways in which individual and collective learning is integrated in different production-consumption networks, and how learni ...
Mr Jonathan Portes | 07 January 2013
This exchange fellowship has two strands:
the engagement focus aims to increase government use of academic work, by increased engagement between bis, niesr and the wider academic community through:
a series of seminars for those working on policy wi ...
Dr Simon Parker | Human Geography | 01 January 2013
The rethinking centres and peripheries (recap) research seminar series aims to develop new thinking and to generate innovate research surrounding the uneven geographic development of britain’s cities and regions in the wake of the 2008 fin ...
Professor Catherine Hall | Economic & Social History | 31 December 2012
This project examines the nature and significance of caribbean slave-ownership in the formation of britain in the crucial coincident years of the peak of the slave-economy and a decisive period in the industrialisation of britain. It develops a histo ...
Outputs
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Tine Buffell | 14 May 2013 | No Lead Discipline | Journal article
This study examines the associations between neighbourhood perceptions and social participation in a sample of older adults living in medium-sized cities in flanders,
belgium. Strong evidence of the influence of place on older people’s physical and m ...
Katharine Sarikakis | 14 May 2013 | Organised event
A two-day collaborative international event with the institute of communication science, university of vienna, involving academics and practitioners from europe and the usa.
Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Summary of Impact
The ‘revisiting the impact of large foodstores on market towns and district centres’ - study was disseminated to the planning community via professional journals such as town & country planning and property industry/planning seminars. It has been acc ...
Christopher Thompson | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article
In the last few years, the discount retail food market in the uk has grown to record
levels. This followed a period of gradual increase in store numbers and also more
favourable trading characteristics for discounters given the recession and global
f ...
Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article
New evidence on linked trips and town centre viability
obtained from a study of the relocation of an ‘out-of-centre’ foodstore to an ‘edge-of-centre’ site
Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article
At a time of increasing government concern with the economic health of uk town centres and high streets, and with an independent inquiry (led by mary portas) on revitalising the high street to report by the end of 2011, this paper seeks to make four ...
Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article
A study of market towns and district centres in two regions in the uk, providing much needed new evidence of the changing linked trip activity associated with contemporary foodstore developments
Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Further Funding
This project was based on a major three-year, two-region, before/after study of the impacts of foodstore developments on uk market towns and district centres. The aims of the study were to move forward highly-polarised policy debates, which have focu ...
Neil Wrigley | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Further Funding
This study provides rigorous, up-to-date research relating to the impacts of small-store corporate food retail entry within a cross-section of five small towns in southern england. The aims of the study were threefold:
- to build upon the univers ...
Andy Newing | 14 May 2013 | Human Geography | Journal article
Visitor expenditure is an important driver of demand in many local economies, supporting a range of services and facilities which may not be viable based solely on residential demand. In areas where self-catering accommodation is prevalent visitor de ...
Case Studies
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Case Study | 11 March 2011 | Business, General public, International, Press/media
A study of reinsurance underwriting and broking practices in the london and bermuda analysed the strengths and weaknesses of face-to-face and electronic trading approaches, highlighting how they affect training and business development.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
A scheme introduced by southampton city council granted planning permission for a new store - on the condition that the company guaranteed interviews to jobseekers who had completed a pre-employment training course.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The centre on skills, knowledge and organisational performance's research has informed the english skills strategy and policies in finland, norway and australia.
Case Study | 26 January 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector, Schools, Voluntary sector
The esrc business engagement strategy scheme has funded a wide range of projects, resulting in benefits for both business and academia.
Features
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Feature | 21 May 2013 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
One of the enterprise research centre’s newly published white papers concludes that both start-up companies and established businesses have rapid growth potential.
Feature | 09 April 2013 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Nicholas crafts, professor of economics and economic history at the university of warwick and director of the esrc centre for competitive advantage in the global economy, examines how the economic policies of the thatcher era affected the uk economy. ...
Feature | 21 March 2013 | General public, Press/media, Schools
Following the chancellor’s presentation of the 2013 budget yesterday, the esrc-supported institute for fiscal studies has produced an analysis of key budget features.
Feature | 15 March 2013 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector, Schools
A house of lords inquiry examining the pressures facing the health service drew heavily on research evidence from the esrc-supported institute for fiscal studies.
Feature | 07 March 2013 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Professor david newberry argues that public investment in the right areas will fuel uk economic growth - with the short-term impact of giving work to domestic private companies who will create jobs.
Feature | 04 March 2013 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
As we enter climate week, poll results have revealed that public concern about environmental issues and climate change has sunk to a 20-year low since the beginning of the global financial crisis.
Feature | 04 February 2013 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
While employment levels in the uk have been "remarkably robust" since 2008, productivity has slumped, according to the institute for fiscal studies paper the productivity puzzles.
Feature | 31 January 2013 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Investing in human capital, improving the national infrastructure, improving finance provision for private investment and innovation, and the creation of an independent national growth council are key recommendations in the final report from the lse ...
Feature | 31 October 2012 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
The heseltine review which is published today looks at ways of making the uk economy more competitive, including how research can boost business. Esrc-funded research has explored to what degree companies collaborate with university departments.
Feature | 23 August 2012 | General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
Research from the centre for competitive advantage in the global economy shows that life satisfaction actually is reduced when a country's gross domestic product increases beyond a certain level. The optimal economic level for life satisfaction lies ...
Press Releases
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Press Release | 22 January 2013 | Academic, Business, Policymakers, Press/media
What will it take put the uk back on the path of sustained economic growth? re-igniting growth, published by the economic and social research council (esrc), includes a series of interviews with key academics funded by the esrc.
Press Release | 19 September 2011 | Academic, Business, Further education, General public, Higher education, Policymakers, Postgraduate, Press/media, Public sector
Current policy pressures on universities to focus on improving their research excellence and to widen participation make it hard for them to engage meaningfully with excluded communities, according to research funded by the economic and social resear ...
Press Release | 07 September 2011 | Academic, Business, Further education, General public, Higher education, Partnerships, Postgraduate, Press/media, Public sector, Schools
In these tough economic times, universities are under pressure to use their knowledge and discoveries to drive economic growth, but an economic and social research council (esrc) study reveals that not all universities are equal.
Press Release | 21 July 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, International, Policymakers, Press/media, Public sector
Following the victory of the scottish national party (snp) in the recent scottish elections on may 5, a unique in-depth survey of the entire snp membership conducted throughout 2008, funded by the economic and social research council (esrc), reveals ...
Press Release | 03 March 2011 | Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media
A survey of households across the uk taken at the height of the recession in 2009 show 67 per cent of people in full-time work were living comfortably or doing allright and that unemployed people were broadly optimistic about their future prospects. ...
Press Release | 31 January 2011 | Academic, International, Partnerships, Policymakers, Press/media
The largest joint initiative between european funding agencies in social sciences, the open research area scheme, announces its successful grants. The scheme is a new way of funding for the esrc, agence nationale de la recherche, deutsche forschungsg ...
Press Release | 27 January 2011 | Academic, Business, General public, Policymakers, Press/media, Schools
A new report released today (thursday 27 january) by the economic and social research council (esrc) provides a snapshot of what we know about our current economic situation and explores what can be learned by looking at evidence from economic and so ...
Press Release | 12 October 2010 | General public, Press/media
Esrc-funded researchers have devised a mathematical model to better understand drivers and fluctuations in the housing market.
Press Release | 09 December 2009 | Policymakers, Press/media
A partnership of outstanding international research organisations will support new economy research agency. The department of economic development in abu dhabi (ded) is launching the abu dhabi economics research agency (adera).
Press Release | 21 April 2009 | General public, Policymakers, Press/media
Is the recession an opportunity to move away from some traditional, and environmentally unfriendly, industries to cleaner, greener industries to create new and sustainable employment?
