by Alex Hulkes
The concept of ‘place’ is a key part of the UK’s Industrial Strategy. Knowledge, capabilities and skills might be rather abstract things but in the end they act through and on people who have a physical presence in a place or places.
We’ve just published some new analysis of ESRC regional spending (PDF) which links the intangible inputs and outputs of ESRC funding with their physical and geographical placement.
Alex Hulkes is Strategic Lead for Insights at the ESRC, and is responsible for developing our ability to evaluate and carry out data-informed analysis of ESRC investments, policy and operation.
In his latest blog, he looks at new analysis on the relationship between success rates and decision volumes.
When writing A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking was told that every equation he included in the book would halve its sales. So the two people who might actually read the most recent analysis of ESRC data (PDF) shouldn’t feel too bad. Continue reading
Alex Hulkes is Strategic Lead for Insights at the ESRC, and is responsible for developing our ability to evaluate and carry out data-informed analysis of ESRC investments, policy and operation.
Here he outlines the latest analysis from ESRC on funding distribution, funding concentration and the size of the ESRC applicant population.
No, it’s not ESRC Scrabble day (243 points to us though). The quincunx, or ‘bean machine’, demonstrates the way in which the cumulative results of many small effects can create striking patterns in distributions of outcomes. Along these lines there are three new analyses which seek to explain how the resources we provide come to be shared the way that they are shared. Continue reading
