The ESRC Centre for Research
The ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) is a £3.7 million Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - funded major international Research Centre analysing socio-cultural change. It is the first major Research Centre in Britain to develop a broad, empirically focused account of cultural change and its economic, social and political implications. CRESC will bring together the theoretical and methodological expertise of The University of Manchester and Open University staff in disciplines as diverse as Accounting and Finance, Business, Census and Survey Statistics, Geography, History, Social Anthropology and Sociology. The Research Centre is funded for five years in the first instance and was launched in October 2004. The broad research agenda will be focused around the following themes central to the analysis of socio-cultural change: