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A team of ESRC-funded researchers has launched a potentially ground-breaking study that will look at the crime and criminal justice experiences of Gypsies and Travellers in England dating back to the 1960s.

The council has announced that it will be investing £2.8m in the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) over 5 years until 2024. Continuing into a new phase, the principal aim of the Centre will be to increase research methods capability in the social sciences and beyond through innovative training and capacity-building activities in the application of core and advanced research methods techniques.

The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for the Social Sciences and Humanities, a collaboration between funders from several different countries, announces the awardees of the T-AP Social Innovation Call. 

The three UKRI councils, NERC, ESRC and EPSRC are pleased to confirm funding for a further five years of the UK membership of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

Older people who engage with the arts live longer than those who rarely or never take part, according to UCL research based on the ESRC-funded English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Join MRC, NIHR and ESRC as they introduce and answer your questions on the exciting £20m joint MRC/NIHR call, under the Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) initiative, to better understand disease clusters, their Trajectories and underlying mechanisms, taking a broad approach that encompass biological, environmental, behavioural and social determinants, where appropriate, to make clinical, public health and scientific progress more achievable.

The Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) Clean Air programme is planning a series of workshops in early 2020 to scope upcoming funding opportunities through the programme.

The UK Climate Resilience programme is a £18.6 million collaboration between UKRI and the Met Office which aims to draw together fragmented climate research and expertise and deliver robust, multi- and inter-disciplinary climate risk and adaptation research to ensuring the UK is resilient to climate variability and change and powerfully positioned to exploit the opportunities of adaptation and green growth.

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), on behalf of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), are inviting applications for a new interdisciplinary director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).

The first manual of expressions describing cancer has been developed by researchers to help patients make sense of their disease. The metaphor 'Menu' follows research by Lancaster University based on the views of more than 100 people involved in cancer care and analysis of more than one million words.