The event was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which helps post-graduate students show their research to the public.

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Future research, also funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, aims to explore the report's findings and recommend potential improvements.

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The survey was financed by the Economic and Social Research Council and undertaken by the ESRC Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST).

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Britain, according to a recent study by the Economic and Social Research Council, has some of the longest hours in Europe, yet with lower productivity than its neighbours.

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The job was even advertised internationally, and went to a Whitehall outsider (though not a foreigner) Professor Ronald Amman, currently chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council.

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In 2003, a paper by the Economic and Social Research Council found that, in the period between January and September 2002, 32% of all the stories about the MMR scare mentioned Leo Blair.

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