Economic and Social Research Council
01 January 2009The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) supports research from across the social sciences, from sociology to anthropology, through to statistics, methods and computing.
Research
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) supports research from across the social sciences, from sociology to anthropology, through to statistics, methods and computing.
Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a "map" of the USA.
At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of Social...
The way a common virus hijacks the cell it infects could hold the clue to combating Parkinson's disease.
Bees see some flowers in multicolour because of previously unknown iridescence of the petals, usually invisible to the human eye, researchers from the University of...
A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cukurova in Turkey has taken a major step to understanding how the...
The idea of culture is becoming synonymous with conflict and polarisation - and in the process putting some of the world's most precious heritage sites at...
Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes and coeliac disease appear to share a common genetic origin, scientists at the University of Cambridge and Barts and The London...
A new guide which shows Christian leaders how to work through their differences without becoming embroiled in long-term disputes has been released.
A team of students from the University of Cambridge sent four teddy-bears into space this week as part of an initiative to engage local schoolchildren...