Deadline: 6-Jun-23
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has announced its Administrative Data Research (ADR) England Research Community Catalysts grants.
Themes
ESRC is offering funding for three community catalyst awards, one for each theme:
- ADR England Research Community Catalyst for Children at Risk of Poor Outcomes (co-funded by What Works for Early Intervention & Children’s Social Care).
- ADR England Research Community Catalyst for Youth Transitions (co-funded by Youth Futures Foundation and The Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education).
- ADR England Research Community Catalyst for Evaluation (co-funded by the Evaluation Task Force and ESRC).
Objectives
- Strategic research leadership
- Provide a focal point to consolidate the growing body of knowledge around the use of administrative data for research and inform future developments of the programme. This would include:
- Mapping and consolidating existing research evidence, applications, concepts and case studies.
- Coordinating and co-designing a research agenda with key stakeholders that identifies and prioritises research topics using linked administrative data.
- Mapping accessible data sources that are required to address the research agenda. Research agendas should build upon government departments’ areas of research interest.
- Provide a focal point to consolidate the growing body of knowledge around the use of administrative data for research and inform future developments of the programme. This would include:
- Build capacity fort academic research using administrative data
- Develop awareness of and interest, skills and confidence in using linked administrative data in a diverse network of academic administrative data researchers across institutions, career stages and disciplines. This would include supporting researchers to conduct data analyses using administrative datasets and coordinating the development of a training and resources hub.
- Develop a diverse administrative data research community
- To form, facilitate and empower a diverse community of data and research users to build meaningful and sustainable relationships around a shared sense of purpose. The community will come together to exchange knowledge and stimulate opportunities for collaboration. If such a community already exists, then to build upon this foundation.
- Address research priorities
- Via a delegated research budget as part of this award, provide opportunities for others to conduct small-scale research during the lifetime of this award. This research will increase the use of ADR England linked administrative data via ADR UK trusted research environments, with the aim of creating impactful case studies. This is to address gaps in the research agenda as well as contribute to the capacity building and community development objectives of this opportunity. Due to the different amounts of co-funding and interests of the co-funders, ESRC is trialling two different modes for allocating this delegated research budget.
- The Children at Risk of Poor Outcomes, and the Youth Transitions Community Catalysts will fund ‘embedded fellowships’ supervised by their team to address research priorities.
- The Evaluation Community Catalyst will manage a ‘test and trial fund’ to support demonstration projects and use cases to address public policy evaluation challenges.
- Via a delegated research budget as part of this award, provide opportunities for others to conduct small-scale research during the lifetime of this award. This research will increase the use of ADR England linked administrative data via ADR UK trusted research environments, with the aim of creating impactful case studies. This is to address gaps in the research agenda as well as contribute to the capacity building and community development objectives of this opportunity. Due to the different amounts of co-funding and interests of the co-funders, ESRC is trialling two different modes for allocating this delegated research budget.
Funding Information
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project will depend on the theme, ranging from a maximum sum of around £670,000 to £970,000. ESRC and co-funders will fund 80% FEC.
Eligibility Criteria
- ESRC strongly encourages interested applicants to apply as a small group or consortium to reflect the breadth of tasks and skills required. If applying for more than one theme, please submit one application per theme.
- The principal investigator must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding including:
- UK higher education institutions.
- Independent research organisations.
- Public sector research establishments.
- Proposals can also include co-investigators from UK business, policy, or civil society. Given the objectives and assessment criteria, ESRC encourages non-academic co-investigators from a government department or intermediary evidence body. This is not essential; however, it may help to ensure the proposal is able to fulfil the funding opportunities objectives. Only proposals that meet the assessment criteria will be considered for funding.
- Standard ESRC eligibility rules apply. Please note that ESRC will potentially fully fund (at 100% FEC) costs for UK business, third sector or government body co-investigators as ‘exceptions’. However, the project costs associated with these types of Co-I contributions must not exceed 30% of the overall cost of the grant (at 100% FEC).
For more information, visit ESRC.