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ESRC INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY

ESRC (UK) INTERNATIONAL POLICY Professor Fiona Devine, Chair, ESRC International Advisory Committee. ESRC INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY. Maintain a strong focus on European collaboration to promote and develop the strengths of the European Research Area

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ESRC INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY

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  1. ESRC (UK) INTERNATIONAL POLICYProfessor Fiona Devine,Chair, ESRC International Advisory Committee

  2. ESRC INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY • Maintain a strong focus on European collaboration to promote and develop the strengths of the European Research Area • Develop the already strong links between UK and North American social science • Investigate and expand links beyond Europe and North America • Develop multi-lateral schemes such as the European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) scheme • Facilitate a bi-lateral collaboration through joint funding schemes • Mainstream international collaboration into all our normal activities

  3. ESRC STRATEGIC RESEARCH CHALLENGES – identified for next five years • Succeeding in the Global Economy • Energy, Environment and Climate Change • Education for Life • Understanding Individual Behaviour and its Biological and Social Determinants • Population Change • International Security • Religion, Ethnicities and Society

  4. ESRC CURRENT INVESTMENTS – related to Human and Social Dynamics • Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) programme • Centre on Social Context of Genomics • Centre on Risk and Regulation • Centre on Markets and Public Organisation • Centre on Deafness, Cognition and Language

  5. ESRC CURRENT INVESTMENTS – related to Human and Social Dynamics • British Household Panel Survey and Centre for Micro-Social Change • Well-being and Development Research Group • Alleviating Poverty International Development programme • Business Knowledge programme • Social Identities programmes • People and Computers / IT programme

  6. ESRC INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES • Bi-Lateral Co-Funding Agreements with Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Scandinavia, and others under discussion • Multi-national schemes such as Norface and ECRP • International Development programme looking to joint North- South investments • NSF/ESRC/SSRC study on best modes for international collaboration • ESRC/SSRC UK-North American Exchange Fellowships • Projected NSF/ESRC Cyber-Infrastructure and E-Social Science Collaboration

  7. HOW TO PROMOTE JOINT WORKING WITH THE HSD PROGRAMME • Links to existing ESRC investments • ESRC responsive mode grants including Management, Psychology and Sociology • Setting up Partnerships and Exchanges with researchers / research groups in the UK • Parallel funding of projects wherever beneficial

  8. OUR OVERALL APPROACH • Be responsive to the world class researchers in the field • Seek to remove the barriers to international collaboration • Find ways to support partnerships • What do you the researchers need?

  9. CONTACT US E-Mail Addresses • fiona.devine@man.ac.uk • glyn.davies@esrc.ac.uk • chris.godwin@esrc.ac.uk

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