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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.

New era of tech-driven legal and financial services to boost productivity and improve customer experience

Prisoners with short, repeated sentences rarely view such prison terms as transformative or effective at rehabilitation or deterrence.

The 'dark web' is playing a growing role in the trade in firearms, ammunition and explosives, says the first study of the size and scope of the illegal arms trade on the dark web.

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is seeking input to help determine the content of the Age 50 Sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70).

Large numbers of children arrive at school without the skills they need to succeed. Practices and policies need to change to ensure all children have a positive start to school and all parents feel empowered to support their children's learning, says Assistant Professor Helen Victoria Smith.

The significance of home-based businesses for entrepreneurship in cities is underestimated, and their needs largely ignored by policymakers, suggest researchers.