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Head of the School of Education, Professor Paul Connolly, has been invited to join the prestigious Grants Assessment Panel for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Prof Paul Connolly joins the ESRC Grants Assessment Panel

The ESRC is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. At any one time they support over 4,000 researchers and postgraduate students in academic institutions and independent research institutes. Professor Connolly will be joining one of the three Grants Assessment Panels that appraise and classify funding applications submitted to the ESRC across all of its responsive mode schemes.

The three panels are multidisciplinary bodies comprising up to 50 members in total representing research disciplines across the social sciences. Speaking of his appointment, Professor Connolly said: "This is a great honour for me and for the School of Education here at Queen's. It is further evidence of our standing within the wider academic community. Being a member of the Grant Assessment Panels represents a considerable responsibility and also opportunity to be involved in helping support the very best research across the UK."

Further information on the ESRC and Grant Assessments Panels can be found at: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-esrc/governance/committees/responsive-mode.aspx 

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