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NEW YEAR HONOURS 2014 A number of prominent social scientists and ESRC grant holders have been honoured in the New Year Honours list. We are pleased to offer our congratulations to everyone honoured. Knights Bachelor – Knighthoods Professor Richard Blundell, CBE FBA, Professor of Economics, UCL; Director, ESRC Centre for the Micro- Economic Analysis of Public Policy, IFS. For services to Economics and Social Science. Professor Paul Collier, CBE


Co-Director, ESRC Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE). CSAE was an ESRC-funded centre from 1991 to 2001. For services to Promoting Research and Policy Change in Africa.


Companion of the Order of the Bath Mr John Pullinger, Librarian and Director General, Information Services, House of Commons; former ESRC board member. For services to Parliament and voluntary service to the community through Great Culverden Park Ltd.


Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire


Professor Celia Hoyles, Lately Director, National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics; ESRC grant holder. For services to Education.


Commanders of the Order of the British Empire


Professor Ash Amin, FBA Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge; former ESRC grant holder. For services to Social Science. Professor John Kay, FBA FRSE,


Supernumerary fellow in economics at St John’s College, University of Oxford; former director of the IFS. For services to Economics. Officers of the Order of the British Empire Professor Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics; former ESRC grant holder. For services to Children and Child Internet Safety.


Ms Ceridwen Roberts,


Senior Research Fellow, Department 30 SOCIETY NOW SPRING 2014


of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford; former ESRC grant holder and former ESRC board member. For services to Social Science.


DAVID PHILLIPS IFS Senior Research Economist David Phillips has been appointed to advise the Tax Advisory Group for Wales. The Group will give advice and support to the Welsh Government in developing devolved tax policy, its collection and management, and provide advice on the wider impact of Welsh devolved tax policy on stakeholders, economy and social fabric of Wales.


SIR DAVID METCALFE Sir David Metcalfe, Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the British Horseracing Education and Standards Trust.


NEW LIFE STUDY DEPUTY DIRECTOR Professor Carol Dezateux, Director of Life Study at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Child Health, has announced the appointment of Professor Peter Elias as Deputy Director of the Study. Peter has a distinguished background in social sciences and has worked to establish and support other birth cohorts and longitudinal studies over the last 20 years. For more information, see: www.lifestudy.ac.uk n


ESRC NEWS AND MEDIA COVERAGE You can now get up-to-date ESRC news and information from a range of sources. Twitter (@esrc) is a quick and easy way for us to reach a large number of people and we use it to communicate, engage and share with our community. There are also two other relatively new Twitter accounts: @esrcpress – run by the ESRC Press Office and @socialscischool – the account for Social Science for Schools. As well as Twitter we use


several other social media channels,


including Facebook (www.facebook. com/theESRC), YouTube (www.youtube. com/user/theesrc) and LinkedIn (www. linkedin.com/company/economic-and-social- research-council). ESRC news and press coverage is also available on Scoop.it – a site that combines announcements with links to news sites, video and audio. See: www.esrc.ac.uk/presscoverage


2014 FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The 2014 ESRC Festival of Social Science will be taking place across the UK from 1-8 November. The Festival of Social Science is


designed to promote and increase awareness of social sciences and the ESRC’s research, enable social scientists to engage with non- academics and increase awareness of the contributions the social sciences make to the wellbeing and the economy of the UK. Everyone – from schoolchildren to


politicians – can take part in and hear about social science research in the Festival’s many engaging events. Past events have included public debates, conferences, workshops, interactive seminars, film screenings, virtual exhibitions and much more. The Festival offers an opportunity for researchers to hold events aimed at non-academic audiences and they can apply for sponsorship of up to £2,000 to assist with events. Please note that events which are aimed primarily at academic audiences are not eligible to be part of the Festival or to receive sponsorship. The call for applications is now


open. The closing dates are: n Sponsored applications: 16.00 on 9 May


n Non-sponsored applications: 16.00 on 16 May.


For more information or to apply for Festival sponsorship, see: www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival


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