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Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change

The ESRC Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change , formally launched today, represents a significant boost to the debate on the future of Scotland. Led by Professor Michael Keating, one of Scotland’s foremost scholars on devolution and constitutional politics, the centre will provide academic research and analysis to help inform the referendum debate, and analyse the constitutional options in the event of either a Yes or a No vote. The centre's evidence and insights are readily available to all governments and campaigns.

Top earners' wages growing faster than for rest in Scotland

Scotland’s top one per cent of income earners - about 25,000 people - have increased their wages and total income at a greater rate than the rest of the nation’s workers in the past decade, according to a new report funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Someone in the top one per cent income bracket in Scotland can expect to earn 20 times more than someone in the bottom one per cent. But once taxes and benefits are taken into account, overall household income inequality in Scotland has not increased substantially since the mid-1990s. This is because the UK tax and

ESRC conference tackles major issues around referendum

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is holding a major two-day conference in Edinburgh today and Friday (2-3 May) tackling issues around the independence referendum.  The conference is part of the ESRC's Future of the UK and Scotland programme of activities, which supports the work of researchers in Scotland and across the UK to inform the referendum debate and policy environment, whatever the outcome.  Research Fellows, academics, policy makers, business organisations, charities and representatives of the two referendum campaigns will be attending. Fiona Hyslop, MSP,

Fellows to look at the future of the UK and Scotland

With a referendum on Scottish Independence due to be held in 2014, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has appointed seven one year senior fellowships with overall funding of £1.3 million. The ESRC Scotland Senior Fellowships scheme invited applications to provide evidence and analysis across the broad range of issues and policy areas affected by the Scotland independence debate and the longer term future of the UK and Scotland. The scheme forms part of a programme of work addressing issues around the future of Scotland, the UK and more widely. The programme aims to both

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