Dr Nikhil Sengupta has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant of 2.47 million Euros for a five-year project investigating opinions on key social issues such as inequality, immigration and international relations in the UK.
The project will focus on how these opinions change over time, in a large, representative sample of the British population. It will also survey students across a selection of secondary schools over the same period, to understand how adolescents first develop their social and political opinions.
The findings will provide a wealth of information for both policymakers and the general public, by revealing what people in the UK think about the most pressing issues in society today. It will help stakeholders at all levels of UK society understand the connection between what people want and need, and social structures and institutions that either facilitate or frustrate those needs.
The funding will enable Dr Sengupta to recruit and lead a team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students to study these issues.
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