Abstracts for oral or poster presentations should be submitted by 20th January for this two-day BSA-Sponsored regional postgraduate event will be hosted at the University of Nottingham on Monday and Tuesday 25th and 26th March 2013. Continue reading
Registration for the ESRC First Year Student Conference closes on 31st January, in just two weeks time. The conference will take place on 8 February 2013 at Central Hall Westminster.
The conference is designed for all first-year DTC fellowship recipients, it is hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science, and will focus on themes and networking designed to help DTC-funded students enhance their postgraduate training and research. Continue reading
One persistent orthodoxy in debates about skills, poverty, low paid work and social mobility has been a belief that through offering poorly qualified adults access to particular types of state-funded education and training, they can be enabled to better their lot, progress in the labour market, and bargain successfully with employers for better wages and more interesting work. This belief found its purest form in New Labour’s Train to Gain (T2G) programme in England. Continue reading
Politicians, academics and the public generally regard education as providing the path to individual success in market economies. Yet most evidence highlights that socio-economic (dis)advantage persists across generations, regardless of an individual’s pursuit of education. Continue reading
The Spotlight on Social Sciences Conference 2013 is a student-led, interdisciplinary conference at Cardiff University which provides an opportunity for postgraduate research students to showcase current research in the social and economic sciences, and it is open to neighbouring institutions. The conference is aimed at researchers across all the social sciences and is free for all postgraduate students to attend. Continue reading
For our last news item of 2012, we’d like to wish all our students, colleagues, partners and other friends a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda!
We will be back in 2013 with more updates, news and information from 7th January. Until then, enjoy the festive season!
Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the four UK Higher Education Funding Bodies have commissioned CFE and partners from the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU)and Sheffield University to carry out research into the value and impact of doctoral training. Continue reading
We are pleased to report that the ESRC have launched a new Celebrating Impact Prize. This is an exciting new opportunity to celebrate the outstanding economic and social impacts achieved by ESRC-funded researchers. Continue reading
There are a limited number of places remaining on the ESRC early career researcher media training course being held in Leeds on 30th January 2013.
The training, for PhD and Postdoctoral students, is run by by the ESRC’s Senior Communications Manager, generally for between 30-50 attendees. Continue reading
International Placement Scheme opportunities for current AHRC/ESRC-funded PhD students have now been launched. These are opportunities to undertake short-term placements at the Library of Congress as part of the AHRC/ESRC. Continue reading
