ESRC (UK) INTERNATIONAL POLICY Professor Fiona Devine, Chair, ESRC International Advisory Committee

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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CONTACT US

• E-Mail Addresses
• fiona.devine_at_man.ac.uk
• glyn.davies_at_esrc.ac.uk
• chris.godwin_at_esrc.ac.uk