ESRC World Values Survey 2025 to 2027

Funding opportunity to run the World Values Survey in Great Britain for 2025 to 2027.

The aim of this funding opportunity is to ensure continuity of data collection and participation of Great Britain in the World Values Survey (WVS) to meet the needs of the social science research and user community. The WVS is an international survey research infrastructure focusing on social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project’s goal is to assess the impact that stability or change in values over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies.

ESRC’s objectives for the successful applicant will be to:

• Produce high-quality data meeting the needs of the UK and international research and policy communities, building on the existing cross-national and time series data, and ensure those communities have timely access to the data.
• Collaborate across the WVS association to deliver UK interests on data collection, facilitating high quality international research on life in Great Britain and enabling the UK research community to fully utilise WVS data.
• Promote the value and potential of the data to the UK research and user community as well as the wider public laying the foundation for potential future engagement activities.

ESRC will fund:

• Staff costs.
• Data collection, distribution and promotion.
• Engagement and collaboration activity.
• Travel and subsistence.