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ESRC CELEBRATING IMPACT PRIZE 2014 Applications for the ESRC’s 2014 Celebrating Impact prize are now open. The prize is an annual
opportunity to recognise and reward the successes of ESRC-funded researchers who have achieved, or are currently achieving, outstanding impact in categories including business, society and public policy, with additional awards celebrating international impact, early career impact, and an impact champion of the year.
A prize of £10,000 will be
made to the winner in each of the six categories, with £5,000 to each runner-up.
EVALUATING SOCIAL SCIENCE The report from a recent ESRC study, Evaluating the Business Impact of Social Science, is now available. The report aims to understand how
social science influences and improves business, and the mechanisms that researchers use to help create and encourage impact and innovation. The study focused on the contributions of three of the UK’s leading business/ management schools that have received significant ESRC funding in recent years: Cardiff Business School, Lancaster University Management School, and Warwick Business School.
www.esrc.ac.uk/research/evaluation-impact/ research-evaluation/impact-on-business-by-
business-and-management-schools.aspx
NEW UK STRATEGY FOR DATA RESOURCES A new report supported by the ESRC sets out a strategy for developing a UK social-science research community that’s engaged with major developments in data resources. The UK Strategy for Data Resources for Social and Economic Research 2013-2018, produced through the UK Data Forum, identifies priority areas for developing the data infrastructure to meet current and future research needs, and to
The categories are: n Outstanding Impact in Business – research which has generated business impact through successful knowledge exchange and engagement
n Outstanding Impact in Public Policy – research that has contributed to the development of UK public policy, at local, regional or national government level
n Outstanding Impact in Society – research that has made a contribution benefiting society more widely or a specific group of the public
n Outstanding International Impact – research that has achieved impact at an international level in business, policy or societal issues
ensure that the research community has the capacity to take advantage of new data resource opportunities. The strategy identifies areas where
greater co-ordination and new initiatives will benefit both data producers and users. It also explores how to enable researchers to make fuller use of new and existing data resources by boosting quantitative skills training, access to methodological support, multidisciplinary training, and collaboration between academic, government and private sectors. Production of the Strategy has
been overseen by the UK Data Forum, which includes representatives from public and private sector organisations holding and producing data, research funders, and those responsible for data infrastructure. It monitors national and international developments in data resources, identifying collaborative opportunities and enabling new types of data to be made available for research. To download the strategy, see:
www.esrc.ac.uk/_ images/UKDF-strategy- data-resources_tcm8- 26806.pdf
UK Strategy for Data Resources for Social and Economic Research A five-year plan to inform and guide the
development and utilisation of data and related resources for social and economic research
WHAT WORKS CENTRE FOR CRIME REDUCTION
A consortium of eight universities will work in partnership with the College of Policing to support a programme for the ESRC-funded What Works Centre for Crime Reduction. The consortium includes
expertise from University College London (UCL), the Institute of Education (IoE), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Birkbeck, Cardiff, Dundee, Surrey and Southampton universities. The government has selected the College of Policing to host the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction – part of a world-leading network of centres to guide decision-making in public services. The commissioned work will
develop academic capacity within the UK to map the existing evidence base for crime reduction, label it for quality, cost and impact, and make it easily accessible for practitioners and decision-makers. The work will also look to establish UK universities as global providers of practitioner training in evaluating evidence of what works and how to use evidence to make effective funding decisions.
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n Outstanding Early Career Impact – student researchers who have achieved or show potential in achieving outstanding impacts in any of the above categories
n Impact Champion of the Year – a nominated individual who has a significant personal track record in knowledge exchange and supporting and enabling impact.
For more information about the prize, including videos from previous winners, visit:
www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and- events/events/celebrating-impact-prize
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