Our Research

Our Research

We fund research and training in social and economic issues. The research undertaken by ESRC's major investments, including programmes, centres, large grants, professorial fellowships and ventures. Our research topics provide news, information and research findings based around topics which cover our strategic challenges.

• Environment and energy

• Understanding behaviour

• Technology and innovation

• Health and wellbeing

• Global economy

• Security and conflict

• Social diversity

 

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Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences

Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.

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Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.