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Dr Nikhil Sengupta<\/a>\u00a0has been awarded a\u00a0European Research Council\u00a0<\/a>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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The project will focus on how these opinions change over time<\/strong>, in a large, representative sample of the British population. It will also survey students across a selection of secondary schools<\/strong> over the same period, to understand how adolescents first develop their social and political opinions.<\/p>\n 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.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n The funding will enable Dr Sengupta to recruit and lead a team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students to study these issues.<\/p>\n Read more on the Kent News Centre website.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr Nikhil Sengupta\u00a0has been awarded a\u00a0European Research Council\u00a0Starting Grant of 2.47 million Euros for a five-year project investigating opinions on key social issues such … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":2444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167563,140626,3684,1029,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}