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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.

Research highlights migrants’ criticisms of the ‘Life in the UK’ test and its lack of clear connection to their daily lives.

ESRC appoints new director for Administrative Data Research Partnership Strategic Hub

ESRC is pleased to announce the launch of legacy centre status and funding for existing ESRC centres. This represents the latest stage in the implementation of ESRC's new graduated centres funding model, announced in 2017, introduced with the aim of fostering and sustaining a larger number of centres over the longer term.

ESRC has won first and second prize for videos highlighting impact made in social sciences at the SSH Impact Conference in Vienna.