Two social scientists\u00a0from the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research\u00a0have been selected as \u2018Future Research Leaders\u2019 under a national scheme to recognise and support outstanding researchers early in their careers.<\/p>\n
Dr Ben Baumberg <\/a>and Dr Heejung Chung<\/a> are among only 60 researchers chosen by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to receive funding in its Future Research Leaders awards for 2013\/14.<\/p>\n Under the scheme, \u2018outstanding\u2019 early-career social scientists can receive grant support for an \u2018excellent\u2019 research project which is likely to have a big impact – with the aim of also developing the skills they will need to become future world leaders in their own research fields.<\/p>\n Dr Baumberg will receive\u00a0funding to\u00a0look at the role of working conditions and job availability in incapacity claims, while Dr Chung will conduct research into working time flexibility and work-life balance across Europe.<\/p>\n Read more ….<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two social scientists\u00a0from the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research\u00a0have been selected as \u2018Future Research Leaders\u2019 under a national scheme to recognise and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237353,1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}