The ESRC has announced five new members have been appointed to join their advisory committees for two years from 1 September 2016. Joining the Research Committee is Sarah Vickerstaff, Professor of Work and Employment in SSPSSR.
The ESRC is the UK’s largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. The ESRC supports independent, high quality research which has an impact on business, the public sector and civil society. At any one time over 4,000 researchers and postgraduate students in academic institutions and independent research institutes are in receipt of ESRC support.
A non-departmental public body (NDPB) established by Royal Charter in 1965, the ESRC receives most of its funding through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Professor Vickerstaff is joined on the Research Committee by Professor Richard Breen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford.