{"id":14083,"date":"2022-07-18T12:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:56:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:56:45","slug":"esrc-pre-announcement-call-for-a-leadership-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2022\/07\/18\/esrc-pre-announcement-call-for-a-leadership-team\/","title":{"rendered":"ESRC Pre-Announcement Call for a Leadership Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is inviting proposals to support the development of a <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.org%2Fopportunity%2Fleadership-team-for-a-national-capability-in-behavioural-research%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Channah.lynch%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C244cf3fc7891476651e008da5b5adfd9%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637922743108577406%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ltaijuNBMDSBHtiXYApFnt93n%2B5MpCMMGbCxna6%2BBsM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">National Capability for Behavioural Research<\/a>. This will be part of a wider \u00a315 million initial investment in this initiative over the next four to six years.<\/p>\n<p>The overarching aim of the national capability is to harness, connect, and extend the UK\u2019s existing capacity and capability to research fundamental questions about how and why people, organisations and groups behave in the way they do to inform policy and practice.<\/p>\n<p>ESRC require a <strong>range of disciplinary perspectives<\/strong> to be involved in the investment. They expect understandings of behaviour to be situated within wider societal and economic contexts. Outputs from the investment should be targeted towards addressing major societal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The key objectives of this national capability are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitate evidence-based decision making through timely, high impact and independent research on human behaviour that meets the needs of policymakers, industry, and civil society<\/li>\n<li>Enhance national capability by building a critical mass of researchers with the knowledge and skills to transform our understanding of human behaviour. Researchers may apply for a range of relevant methods such as data science, human-centered design, and experimental methods. This objective will be achieved in part by a Centre for Doctoral Training Plus (CDT+).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A \u2018hub\u2019 will sit at the heart of a \u2018hub and spoke\u2019 model and be complemented by a series of \u2018spokes\u2019 (or centres of excellence) that will be established to deliver key elements of the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>interdisciplinary leadership team will be responsible for the core management and running of the \u2018hub\u2019<\/strong>. The \u2018hub and spokes\u2019 will be expected to work together to achieve the overarching ambition of the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018hub\u2019 does not need to be based in a single location, and therefore members of the leadership team do not need to be co-located.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements for the \u2018hub\u2019 are likely to include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working across a diverse set of partners to co-create and promote a vision for behavioural research<\/li>\n<li>Delivering a core research programme operating at the global frontier of research and methods<\/li>\n<li>Providing agile funds for exemplar projects<\/li>\n<li>Providing strategic direction by coordinating, connecting and facilitating across different stakeholders<\/li>\n<li>Signposting and synthesising evidence for use in policy and practice<\/li>\n<li>Promoting and maximising value from existing and novel data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The team must be led by a principal investigator based at UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This funding opportunity will open in September 2022 when the full details will be available. This is a pre-announcement and the information may change.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is inviting proposals to support the development of a National Capability for Behavioural Research. This will be part&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2022\/07\/18\/esrc-pre-announcement-call-for-a-leadership-team\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14084,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}