'Transforming' Social Science
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is delighted to announce the 20 successful grants of the first Transformative Research Call, a pilot for 2012/2013. The call aims to provide a stimulus for genuinely transformative and groundbreaking research ideas at the frontiers of social sciences. We regard transformative research as involving pioneering theoretical and methodological innovation, the novel application of theory and methods in new contexts, and/or research based on the engagement of unusual disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Transformative research