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Dear Colleagues
CALL FOR E-SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NODES, SMALL GRANTS AND ACCESS GRIDS
The ESRC are inviting proposals to the following streams as part of their
e-social science programme, which will be co-ordinated by the National
Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS). The overall budget remaining for the
programme is £2.3 million over three years, to be divided between the
first two streams below:
Research Nodes
The NCeSS nodes will undertake a programme of substantive social science
research, focusing on the application of Grid technologies to generate new
solutions to social science research problems or on the social shaping and
socio-economic impact of e-science. Nodes will last for one to three
years, with funding of up to £400k for each. The deadline for applications
is Monday 17 January 2005.
Small Grants
This stream aims to encourage novel and experimental proposals for
research lasting up to 18 months. Proposals to investigate the social
shaping and the socio-economic impact of e-science are particularly
welcome, though proposals to apply e-science to social science research
problems are not excluded. Funding of up to £45k per project is available.
The scheme is open date to April 2005, though early applications are
encouraged.
Access Grid Nodes
Access Grids are the next stage in video conferencing and virtual research
environments. ESRC have funded the hardware, software, training and
installation of a limited number of access grid nodes (value around £30k).
Bids are not restricted to institutions participating in the node or small
grant call. The deadline for applications is Monday 17 January 2005.
Application forms, guidelines and more information are available from the
ESRC website
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/researchfunding/esciencecentre.asp.
FOUR NEW NCeSS RESEARCH NODES ANNOUNCED
The following new research nodes will join the Collaboration for e-Social
Science Statistics (CQeSSS) (University of Lancaster), our first research
node which started in September 2004, to make up the complete first phase
of research nodes. The new nodes will start work in April 2005.
MOSES – Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science
(Dr MH Birkin, University of Leeds)
This node will provide a suite of modelling and simulation tools which
will be thoroughly grounded in a series of well-defined policy scenarios.
Understanding New Forms of Digital Record for e-Social
(Prof T Rodden, University of Nottingham)
This node seeks to explore and understand how new forms of digital record
may emerge from, and for, e-social science and examine how Grid-based
technologies can be extended to provide new processes and services to
collect, collate and distribute social science information.
Mixed Media Grid
(Dr MC Fraser, University of Bristol)
This node will generate tools and techniques for social scientists to
collaboratively analyse audio-visual qualitative data and related
materials over the Grid.
Short abstracts for all of our first round nodes are available on our
website at http://www.ncess.ac.uk/about.htm#ncess
Best wishes
Gillian Sinclair
Dr Gillian Sinclair
Programme Manager
ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS)
University of Manchester
Dover Street Building
Dover Street
Manchester
UK
M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 1380
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Website: http://www.ncess.ac.uk
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