About us
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation funding research on economic and social issues, supporting independent, high quality research which influences business, the public sector and the charity and voluntary sector. It currently supports over 4,000 researchers and postgraduate students.
We are the UK’s largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues.
We support independent, high quality research which has an impact on business, the public sector and the charity and voluntary sector.
Our total budget for 2011/12 is £203 million. At any one time, we support over 4,000 researchers and postgraduate students in academic institutions and independent research institutes.