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Research shows that upgrading footpaths to tracks can benefit rural and marginalised communities in Liberia, by opening the areas to motorcycle taxi services – drastically reducing transport times and boosting trade.

Five research grants have been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council to investigate management practices’ and their effect on productivity.

The ESRC-funded HateLab is analysing data to see how social media spreads and amplifies hate speech in the aftermath of terror attacks and what factors help or hinder.

Workers in Britain are working harder and have less say, but are less anxious about losing their job or having their job changed in some way, according to the findings from the latest Skills and Employment Survey.

UK organisations holding grants from Horizon 2020, the European Union’s flagship programme for research and innovation, need to submit information about them into a UKRI portal designed to capture basic details about the grants.

A new project to create an online support network for people with young onset and rare dementias is one of four research projects funded as part of a £15 million initiative on research to improve the lives of people living with dementia.

A number of prominent social scientists, economists and ESRC grant holders, both past and present, have been honoured in the New Year Honours list for 2019. We offer our congratulations to everyone honoured.

New research has identified the factors that enable people with dementia and their carers to live as well as possible.

A shortage of non-pharmacological options and alternative treatments may be one reason that anti-depressant prescription rates in Northern Ireland (NI) are significantly higher than the rest of the UK, suggests researchers following a two-year study of prevalence and variation in anti-depressant prescribing across Northern Ireland.

ESRC is announcing £3.5 million of funding for projects researching long-term implications for governance after Brexit.