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How people pick dates on Tinder is all down to evolution, according to new research. Men choose ‘hot’ partners whereas women prize intelligence and stability - just as their ancestors did.

The recently established UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) was officially launched at a Westminster event yesterday where academics from across the UK announced a series of major research projects.

We are currently recruiting new members to sit on our Council after ESRC has become part of UK Research and Innovation.

An ESRC project has been shortlisted for the 2017 Newton Prize, an annual £1 million fund awarded for the best research or innovation that promotes the economic development and social welfare of developing countries.

The ESRC is pleased to launch the 2018 Celebrating Impact Prize. The Prize is an annual opportunity to recognise and reward the successes of ESRC-funded researchers and other ESRC associates who have achieved, or are currently achieving, outstanding economic or societal impacts.

The struggle to give Northern Irish women access to abortions on the NHS in mainland Britain may finally have been won this summer, but for those women and others from the Republic of Ireland where abortion is illegal, there are still many obstacles to overcome.

This November the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) fifteenth Festival of Social Science will celebrate the impact of social science research on people’s lives, with more than 300 free events across the UK.

Language experts at Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press have today published the largest ever public collection of transcribed British conversations, totalling 11.5 million words of spontaneous British English collected between 2012 and 2016.

Prisoners who maintain family relationships while in prison are less likely to reoffend. Taking steps to ensure prisoner visits can be as positive as possible – both for prisoners and visitors – can reduce reoffending, shows research.

What happens in the world affects all of us, and young people are being challenged to take a photograph that demonstrates this impact.