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This grant funds a cohort of doctoral students across UK universities, rather than a single research project with a defined scientific question. The funding supports postgraduate training in the social sciences through the Economic and Social Research Council’s Doctoral Training Partnerships. These partnerships distribute money to consortia of research organisations, which then select and train PhD students. The abstract provides no details about what specific research questions those students will pursue, what methods they will use, or what problems they aim to solve. Because this is a training grant, its impact is indirect. It builds the UK’s future research workforce by giving early-career researchers the skills to conduct social science. Over time, those trained researchers may go on to study education, inequality, economic behaviour, or public policy. The grant does not promise any immediate practical application or technological breakthrough. Its value lies in sustaining the pipeline of skilled researchers who will produce knowledge in the decades ahead.