Promoting Partnerships and Research Collaborations

Alexa Mills, Training and Development Team, ESRC

Distribution of ESRC Funding 2011/12

Research Careers-Funding Pathways

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Centres and Large Grants

Professorial Fellowships

Academic Research Careers

Capacity Building Clusters

Future Research Leaders

Non Academic Research Careers

‘Traditional’ PhD Route

‘Collaborative’ PhD Route

Internships /Placements

Benefits to Collaboration

Collaboration need not necessarily mean co-funding. Some of the very best collaborative activity is simply through an exchange of knowledge.

Types of Collaboration

ESRC Internship Scheme

Overseas Institutional Visits“I took the two-month Palestine and Arabic Studies summer programme at Birzeit University, Palestine. I am now much more aware of their concerns and aspirations and I have had the opportunity to learn more about the patterns of their everyday lives. I have contact details for more than thirty students who have agreed to participate in my research and have offered to help me in any way they can. All of these experiences helped me to refine my research questions.”

Collaborative PhD Research

The Next Generation of Social Scientists

“Within my first week, I had drafted a letter from the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister to the rest of the Cabinet, and attended a meeting at 10 Downing Street.”

Quote from David Blagdon, a previous ESRC intern

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