Impact Factor:1.137 | Ranking:21/36 in Social Sciences, Biomedical | 81/136 in Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | 5-Year Impact Factor:1.396Source:2012 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2013)
Multi-morbidity is receiving considerable attention in public policy, health and social care. From the perspective of the individual, multi-morbidity is a more complex experience than solely having a clinical diagnosis. In this article, we will argue that understanding multi-morbidity can be facilitated by considering the relationship between adversity (in this case multi-morbidity), resilience and social connectedness within a life course framework. This provides an approach that can capture the dynamics of social relationships, social connectedness and the fluctuations in the experience of multi-morbidity. We draw on a qualitative study of 17 people who have multiple conditions, but consider themselves as being able to maintain a sense of identity and self over time and in the face of adversity. From their accounts, a more varied picture emerges of living with multi-morbidity. This then depicts a more realistic representation of how each person shapes their multi-morbidity and resilient responses within their own social context, which can help to formulate more effective ways of supporting them. © 2013 SAGE Publications. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Health: is a broad ranging, interdisciplinary, peer reviewed journal related to health and the social sciences. Focusing on the changing place of health matters in modern society, the journal continues to provide an international forum for original articles and review essays from around the world. It offers the breadth of outlook required by sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and cultural theorists who are addressing problems that cross disciplinary boundaries.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
'Transforming' Social Science - Transformative Research Call
The Transformative Research Call is a new pilot for 2012/13 which aims to provide a stimulus for genuinely transformative research ideas at the frontiers of social sciences. Applications for the Transformative Research Call must be submitted using the online application form
The ESRC Transformative Research Call is a new pilot for 2012/13 which aims to provide a stimulus for genuinely transformative research ideas at the frontiers of social sciences and to trial a mechanism that enables research which challenges current thinking to be supported and developed.
The call is a pilot and is therefore subject to very specific eligibility criteria. Eligible research organisations will be notified by invitation and the eligibility criteria (including the number of applications allowed by each research organisation) and more information about the call can be found in the call specification.
Proposals will be assessed and successful applicants will receive a grant of up to £250,000 (at 100 per cent fEC). The ESRC will only fund 80 per cent of this cost, and the balance must be guaranteed by the research organisation. In addition, host research organisations of successful applicants will receive a further £50,000 to spend on fostering future transformative research in the social sciences.
This call has now closed.
If you have any questions or would like further information about the call, contact:
High Priority Behaviour and Social Research Networks
The ESRC and National Institute on Aging (NIA) are pleased to announce a joint call for networks. This call covers a number of thematic areas, the ESRC will consider co-funding applications which involve or are led by UK partners in the following areas:
Epigenetics: Advance research from a life course perspective that elucidates how epigenetic processes translate the effects of social environments into behavioural or behaviourally mediated outcomes that may persist throughout life into middle and late adulthood. This builds on the ESRC/BBSRC International Symposium on EpigeneticsReversibility: Assessing the prospects for mid-late life reversibility of phenotypes associated with early life adversity and subsequent later life health and socioeconomic disparities.Valuing Health Research: Facilitate a network to study the production of biomedical and behavioral science research and its impact on health, especially healthy aging, and the economy.Full details of the call for Networks is available on the NIA website. To be eligible for ESRC co-funding, applications must include a social science UK component, including one or more UK Investigators. For further information on what constitutes a 'UK component' see the FAQ document.
If you have an interest in the area of reversibility then you may also be interested in a separate ESRC/NIA call on Mid-life Reversibility of Early-established Biobehavioural Risk Factors.
ESRC and NIA funding for networks in the above areas will provide infrastructure support for advancing the development of interdisciplinary areas of behavioural and social research of relevance to ageing. Ageing-relevant research is that which addresses issues of importance to the well-being and health of either mid-life or older adults, and can include data spanning the entire life course.
The infrastructure support will facilitate research networks through meetings, conferences, small scale pilots, training, and dissemination so that they can develop to the point where work in this area can be supported through standard research funding mechanisms. Development of research networks is critical to advance the science in high priority emerging areas, where integration across studies, disciplines and institutions is required.
BBSRC are co-funding this call, further information can also be found on their website:
Note: The NIH Guide notice providing detailed Guidance on Resumption of NIH Extramural Activities Following the Recent Lapse in Appropriations has just been published. The receipt date for the Networks (R24) RFA will be 17.00, 1 November your local time.
Evaluation of Digital Social Research
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is seeking to commission an evaluation of the Digital Social Research (DSR) Programme.
The DSR Programme, directed by the National Strategic Director for e-Social Science, Professor David De Roure, aimed to maximise the benefit from the existing digital social research investment through a programme of small strategic investments in the period 2010-2012. These investments were designed to broaden practice in order to boost research impact, and to lay the ground for future world-class social research. These investments included a round of demonstrator and sustainability projects, the development, administration and coordination of a community funding programme and a programme of workshops and events.
The Evaluation will provide:
accountability to the ESRC, for its investment in DSRfeedback for those supported under DSRthrough publication of the executive summary, information and guidance for those in academic, policy and practitioner communitiesguidance on future priorities for ESRC and other funders (where appropriate).The deadline for the submission of tenders is 11.00, 4 October. To find out more information about the evaluation and to receive a copy of the Evaluation Brief, please contact:
Establishment of ‘Social Science of the Nexus’ Network Plus
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has recently undertaken a consultation exercise to identify the social science research priorities that emerge from a holistic assessment of the interrelated challenges of energy, environment and food security. This exercise has identified an interconnected set of social science challenges - the Social Science of the Nexus - from which ESRC, working with a range of partners, will be taking forward a programme of research and capacity-building.
The first of these activities is designed to forge links between research activities addressing the challenges of the Social Science of the Nexus. ESRC wants to establish a Network Plus (NW+) to build connected ‘nexus thinking’ capacity and leadership for the social sciences in identifying and addressing the challenges of the Energy-Environment-Food Nexus. The call is for a single Network Plus (NW+) to last for 36 months that will bring together researchers from across the Nexus funded to the level of up to £1.875 million (100 per cent fEC)) over 36 months.
A Network Plus plays a strategic role in ensuring that research is both of excellent academic quality AND is aligned with user needs. It plays a key role in reaching out to potential users, interacting with them and providing them with access to research, ensuring research addresses questions that are relevant to them, and uses the concepts and language that users understand and can apply. This is intended to be very different to the traditional process of dissemination which occurs after the research has finished. Instead, with a Network Plus, the research communities’ engagement with research users is at its highest before the main body of research begins, and research users often play an active role in research design and its co-production. A Network Plus has a further strategic contribution in bringing together research teams working on different contributory areas, whether or not funded by ESRC, to foster the sharing and integration of research activities and findings, and to support the development of joined-up and usable new thinking.
The NW+ will have open, interdisciplinary membership, and will engage a wide range of relevant stakeholders, from academia, business, policy, civil society and other sectors. The NW+ will engage, build and support a new research community, drawing on existing and future investments both within and beyond ESRC's portfolio. To enable this, the funding for the NW+ includes placement and pilot project allocations.
ESRC is holding a meeting on 2 September 2013 in London at the Hooke Room, 76 Portland Place for researchers interested in responding to the call for proposals for a Nexus Network Plus.
Although attendance at the event is not mandatory, it will be an opportunity to hear more about the background to the Network Plus and the network ESRC wish to develop and how to formulate responses to the call.
To attend register your interest by responding to the call email: esrcnexusnetworkplus@esrc.ac.uk
The deadline for registration was 19 August. If demand is too high for the meeting, then ESRC will ask your organisation to prioritise who attends.
We would appreciate it if you also provide a short note on your research interests and expertise and how you feel you could contribute to the Network Plus. There will be a limit on audience numbers and this note, together with information on coverage across institutions and expertise, will be helpful if we do need to make any judgements on event allocations. The note will also be something we would want to share with other participants at the event to assist with the development of new relationships to address the agenda planned for the network.
Contact:
Interdisciplinary Social and Biomedical Sciences Fellowships - MRC-ESRC
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) are committed to promoting interdisciplinary research training and continue to welcome applications that allow candidates to develop research skills that successfully combine the approaches of the medical and social sciences.
The ESRC-MRC Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition is now replaced by alternative schemes, detailed below.
For applications at the interface of ESRC and MRC remits, which would previously have been submitted under the ESRC-MRC Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme, applicants are encouraged to apply to the most appropriate Research Council via the following routes:
Early career applications are welcome to the following MRC schemes:
See the MRC website for more information on the MRC Strategic Skills fellowships (external site). The closing date for the above schemes is 19 September 2012.
For more information email: fellows@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk.
Evaluating the Business Impact of Social Science: A Study of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the Private Sector
We are seeking to commission a small scale study to evaluate the contributions that social science has made to business through the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme. The evaluation will provide examples of private sector impact and specific benefits that social science can offer to business.
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme is UK-wide and is managed by the Technology Strategy Board and supported by 12 other funding organisations including the ESRC.
The aims of the evaluation are as follows:
Assess the range and nature of social science impacts on the private sector as identified in KTP reports, and highlight examples of good practiceExplore the extent to which Knowledge Transfer Partnerships have facilitated further private sector engagement with social scienceIdentify any further collaboration and impacts that have occurred since the completion of the KTPIdentify and analyse the determinants of the impacts identified (ie why and how impact has been generated)Develop an understanding of the private sector’s appreciation and need for social scienceIdentify good practice and lessons for enhancing the contribution that social scientists can make to the private sectorInform the ESRC’s business engagement activities with a view to maximising future impacts.Further details and a copy of the full specification are available from the UK Shared Business Services Ltd. Please contact:
The deadline for submission of bids is 11.00 on 10 July 2013.
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