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Author Walker, David, author

Title Exaggerated claims : the ESRC, 50 years on / David Walker
Published London : Sage Publications Ltd, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (128 pages)
Series SAGE Swifts
Sage swifts.
Contents Exaggerated claims?-front cover; exaggerated claims?; copyright; contents; about the author; preface; chapter 1- introduction; chapter 2- the esrc today; chapter 3- promise and disappointment; chapter 4- reprieve and normalisation; chapter 5- an agent of amelioration; chapter 6- academic capture; chapter 7- cumulative knowledge?; chapter 8- conclusion; references; index
Summary David Walker, a leading UK journalist, critically explores both the history of and the contemporary challenges faced by the main public funding body for social science in the UK - the ESRC
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 8, 2016)
Subject Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) -- Evaluation
SUBJECT Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) fast
Subject Social sciences -- Research -- Great Britain -- Evaluation
Social sciences -- Research -- Great Britain -- Finance
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Evaluation
Social sciences -- Research -- Evaluation
Social sciences -- Research -- Finance
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 147396704X
9781473967045
9781473967052
1473967058