ESRC’s Executive Chair Stian Westlake said, ‘[This] is our opportunity to recognise the remarkable achievements of outstanding social scientists, whose works has harnessed the power of social science to shape a fairer and more prosperous world. Anthropologist Dr Ebner's project, ‘Understanding indicators of proneness to extreme violence among online users’ came runner up for a highly-novel project looking at online terror. Her research used analytical technology to predict acts of terror and violence, creating a new framework to tackle extremism online. Part of the Festival of Social Science, the awards were announced at the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prizes ceremony at the Royal Society in London. Each category winner was awarded a prize of £10,000 to be spent on furthering knowledge exchange, public engagement, or other communications activities to promote the economic and social impact of their research.
