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QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2015 A number of prominent social scientists and ESRC grant holders have been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. We are pleased to offer our congratulations to everyone honoured. Knights Bachelor Knighthood Professor Sir Stephen Nickell CBE FBA, economist and former member of ESRC Council. For services to Economics.
Order of the British Empire Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Professor Dame Victoria Bruce, Vice-President for Public Engagement, British Academy and the Head of the School of Psychology, Newcastle University. Former Chair of ESRC Research Programmes Board and ESRC grant holder. For services to Higher Education and Psychology. Dame Frances Cairncross
FRSE, lately Rector, Exeter College, University of Oxford. Former Chair of ESRC. For services to Higher Education and Economics. Commander of the Order of the British Empire Professor Rachel Griffith, FBA CBE, Professor of Economics, University of Manchester and ESRC grant holder. For services to Economic Policy. Officer of the Order of the British Empire Professor John Beath FRSE OBE, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of St Andrews. Former member of ESRC Council, Chair of the ESRC Research Grants Board and Training and Skills Committee and the Advisory Group for the Future of the UK and Scotland research programme, as well as a former member of the ESRC Evaluation Committee. For services to Economics. Professor Jane Falkingham OBE,
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Dean, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Southampton University and Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change. Also Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and ESRC grant holder. For services to Social Science.
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Member of the Order of the British Empire Professor Debra Myhill MBE, Director, Centre for Research in Writing and Subject Leader for Secondary English, University of Exeter. Winner of an ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize in 2014 and ESRC grant holder. For services to the Social Sciences.
BIG DATA NETWORK PHASE 3 PROJECTS ANNOUNCED The ESRC has announced £750,000 funding for four Civil Society Data Partnership Projects, part of the Big Data Network Phase 3. These projects establish and build upon relationships between academic researchers and civil society organisations to develop data infrastructures, enabling the partner organisations to more effectively collect and analyse their data. The successful projects are: Utilising Big Data in the Practice of Torture Survivors’ Rehabilitation This collaboration between the University of Essex and the human rights charity Freedom from Torture (FfT), seeks to explore how the data FfT collects and holds can be restructured and cleaned to make it suitable for research and analysis. A Profiler for Crime, Criminal Justice and Social Harm The project is led by the University of Salford in partnership with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. It aims to prototype the development of a ‘Profiler’ that can enable civil society opinion formers to better understand factors affecting crime, criminal justice and social harm.
Data Resource Construction: Open Data, Grantmaking Data, and the Organisational and Financial Base of the Third Sector This partnership between the University of Birmingham’s Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) seeks to provide comprehensive data on the contemporary population of third- sector organisations in the UK, map the landscape of grant-funding to these organisations, and create an accessible data source to assist a broad range of organisations in better understanding the sector.
Developing the Use of Administrative Data on Scotland’s Civil Society The project is a collaboration between the University of Stirling (lead institution), the University of St Andrew’s and the Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations (SCVO). The project will build capacity for civil society organisations to collect and more effectively use their data, using standardly collected local-level data about civil society organisations and employing data linkage.
SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMING AMR REVIEW Two reports commissioned by the ESRC provided evidence for the independent Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), which published its recommendations in the report Securing new drugs for future generations: the pipeline of antibiotics.
Antimicrobial resistance means that illnesses and operations now considered to be minor could become life-threatening. The review sets out proposals to overhaul the way antibiotics are developed over the next ten years, as currently available drugs are losing effectiveness against resistant bacteria. The report looks at how regulation can inhibit or encourage development of antimicrobial drugs, and reviews different incentive strategies. The development of new drugs is only part of the solution. Resistance is a natural phenomenon, and when new drugs are created it will continue to increase. There is a need to understand how antibiotics are used ‘on the ground’, and social science research is central to increase our understanding in this area – issues such as how health services can adapt to the pressures posed by AMR, regulation around livestock production and how it affects antimicrobial development, public perceptions of how antibiotics work and how this plays out in GP surgeries. ESRC-funded research will increase understanding of these issues, the effect of human behaviour on the spread of AMR, and the best ways of changing behaviour in a variety of settings. n
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