Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

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The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. They support independent, high quality research which has an impact on business, the public sector and civil society. ESRC’s total core budget is around £202 million.

At any one time they support over 4,000 researchers and postgraduate students in academic institutions and independent research institutes.