ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Research Seminars Competition
Funding has been awarded to 41 groups under the ESRC's Research Seminars Competition for 2009-10. The scheme aims to bring together researchers from across disciplines to identify new research agendas or capacity-building priorities. Seminar-group members consist of academic researchers, postgraduate students and non-academic users across varying institutions, who meet regularly to exchange information and ideas with the aim of advancing research within their fields. The remaining winners will be published next week.
Award winner: A.M. Carvajal
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £18,000
Games and economic behaviour study group
Award winner: C. Milligan
Institution: Lancaster University
Value: £14,998
Opportunities, challenges and tensions: linking the ageing and disability rights agendas
Award winner: R.A. Maitland
Institution: University of Westminster
Value: £12,785
Net-Star: network of social tourism and regeneration
Award winner: J.T. Quinn
Institution: London Metropolitan University
Value: £11,684
New perspectives on education and culture
Award winner: S. Goyal
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £17,788
Seminars on networks
Award winner: G.P. Brown
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £17,570
Sustainability transitions: rethinking everyday practices, identities and livelihoods
Award winner: L. Brace
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: £15,310
The politics of victimhood
Award winner: J. Calvert
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £17,868
Synthetic biology and the social sciences
Award winner: C.A. Holland
Institution: The Open University
Value: £14,007
Older people and technological inclusion: multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary realities and aspirations
Award winner: J.M.F. Bimrose
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £18,000
Reframing service delivery, professional practices and professional identities in UK careers work
Award winner: D.R. Lain
Institution: University of Brighton
Value: £17,490
Rethinking retirement
Award winner: K. McAuliffe
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £16,046
Developmental social neuroscience, ethics and the law: challenges to legal perspectives in the UK and Europe
Award winner: N. Britten
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £16,503
Knowledge spaces and public social science
Award winner: G. Smyth
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Value: £18,000
Diverse teachers for diverse learners: research and perspectives
Award winner: S. Kilminster
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £14,723
New levels of professional responsibility: exploring workplace pedagogies in transition
Award winner: M.R. Priestley
Institution: University of Stirling
Value: £9,494
Curriculum for the 21st century: theory, policy and practice
Award winner: O. McNamara
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £17,779
Workplace learning in teacher education
Award winner: G. Cousin
Institution: University of Wolverhampton
Value: £16,268
Global citizenship as a graduate attribute
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Award winner: Sarah Ogilvie
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £17,968
Endangered languages and dictionaries: collaboration between academics, indigenous communities and NGOs
Trends indicating that more than half of the world's 6,800 languages will become extinct in the next 100 years have led to growing concern among linguists, anthropologists and language communities. Many of these languages may disappear without being adequately recorded. This seminar group will discuss issues relating to technology, revitalisation and collaboration in the making of dictionaries of endangered languages. By providing the opportunity for faculty and graduate students across linguistics, social anthropology, education and sociology to meet with indigenous communities and non-governmental organisations, the project aims to build capacity and identify new research opportunities in language documentation.