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NEW YEAR HONOURS 2018 A number of prominent social scientists and ESRC grant holders have been honoured in the New Year Honours list. Congratulations to everyone honoured. Knighthoods Professor Timothy Besley, CBE, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science; Former ESRC grant holder. For services to Economics and Public Policy.
Professor John Curtice, FBA FRSE, Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde and Senior Research Fellow, NatCen Social Research; ESRC grant holder. For services to the Social Sciences and Politics. Professor Bernard Silverman,
Lately Chief Scientific Adviser, Home Office; ESRC grant holder. For public service and services to Science.
ESRC-FUNDED RESEARCHERS WIN PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS The world-leading social science research undertaken at the University of Essex through the ESRC-funded Institute for Social and Economic Research has received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. The Prize is the highest form of national recognition for the work of a UK university and will be officially bestowed on the University at Buckingham Palace in early 2018 by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. The Parent-Infant Sleep Lab at Durham University (see full article in this issue page 18) was also awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize. The Sleep Lab’s online Infant Sleep Information Source, which received funding from ESRC, has been accessed more than two million times from countries across the world, and is shared and recommended by parents and health professionals as a reliable evidence-based home of information on normal infant sleep. Meanwhile, winners of the 2017
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THE Awards were announced at a ceremony in London. ‘Pushing the boundaries’, a research initiative led by Dr David
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Professor David Nevin Fraser Bell; ESRC grant holder. For services to Economics and Public Policy. Professor Diane Coyle, OBE;
ESRC grant holder. For services to Economics and the Public Understanding of Economics. Professor Paul Gregg, Professor of Economic and Social Policy, University of Bath; ESRC grant holder. For services to Children and Social Mobility.
Professor Jane Humphries, Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford; Former ESRC grant holder. For services to Social Science and Economic History. Professor Andrew Morris, FRSE, lately
Chief Scientist (Health), Scottish Government and Vice-Principal (Data
James Cantor, won the Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences award. The three- year initiative was supported by an ESRC Future Research Leader grant. Professor John Curtice of the University of Strathclyde received the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his academic career in psephology – the study of elections and voting – and his extensive media and public engagement work, which has been widely credited with making complex political issues accessible to a wide audience. Professor Curtice has been involved with many projects supported by ESRC, and is currently a fellow on the ESRC-funded UK in a Changing Europe initiative. The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) topped the shortlist in the Innovation in Research Methods category at the prestigious Market Research Society Awards for its work developing Britain’s first random probability-based mixed-mode panel. The NatCen Panel was set up in 2016 and designed to maximise methodological rigour using the methodology recommended by the Polling Inquiry into the 2015 General Election. It is the first mixed mode
Science), University of Edinburgh; Former ESRC grant holder. For services to Science in Scotland. Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean,
Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University; ESRC grant holder. For services to Higher Education and Public Policy.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Professor Sally-Ann Cooper, Professor of Learning Disabilities, University of Glasgow; ESRC grant holder. For services to Science and Medicine. Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Ms Madeleine Sumption, Director, Migration Observatory, University of Oxford; ESRC grant holder and winner of the 2017 Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding Impact in Society. For services to Social Science. n
(online and telephone) panel in Britain based on people selected at random; it draws its sample from the random probability British Social Attitudes survey sample. And a team of researchers who were funded through an ESRC ‘Urgency’ Grant in 2014-15 have been recognised for their contribution to public debate and policy by the Royal Historical Society at its Public History Prize awards 2018. The team – Professor Adrian
Bingham (Sheffield), Dr Lucy Delap (Cambridge), and Professor Louise Jackson (Edinburgh) – were winners of the Public Debate and Policy category for their work in promoting deeper understanding of experiences of child sexual abuse and responses to it in England and Wales between 1918 and 1990. Their research analysed newspaper reporting, legal contexts and social work practices. The team have given talks for non-academic groups, published briefing papers, and undertaken consultancy and media work; their work has been used in relation to official inquiries. The team have worked closely with History & Policy, the national partnership that brings together historians, journalists and policymakers. n
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