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PROGRAM
11:00 Rebecca Nicholls, Oxford, Enhancing Materials Design
11:50 Nicholas Bristowe, Kent, Magnetoelectric Ferroics
13:40 Tapio Ala-Nissila, Loughborough, Polymer Driven Translocation
14:30 Posters
16:10 Andrew James, UCL, 2D Many-Body Systems

NB There may be an internal sifting process for this call

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites applications for its strategic equipment scheme – maximising existing equipment sharing in physical sciences. This promotes and supports maximal usage of existing items of capital equipment in physical sciences. Funding is expected to provide additional underpinning infrastructure or staff support that improves current use of equipment. Applicants must demonstrate the added value of the funds for increasing equipment usage. Examples of support include increased technician time or additional roles to provide training and research services not previously available, improved booking software, and improved advertisement of capabilities.

The PI must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at the lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible organisation, which may be an HEI, a research institute funded by a research council or an independent research organisation. The increased usage may benefit users from many disciplines but the main benefit must be for researchers in physical sciences in EPSRC’s remit.

The total budget available is £2 million for this round, with grants worth up to £200,000 each over two years. Funding may cover single items or suites of equipment used at the departmental, faculty, institutional, regional, or national levels.

The Royal Society invites applications for its research grants. These provide seed-corn funding for early-career UK scientists for research within the society’s remit in the life and physical sciences, including the history of science but excluding clinical medicine. The aim is to increase the availability of specialised equipment and consumables for high quality research, and to support essential field research. The scheme also provides support for research in the history of science or to assist with publication of scholarly works in the history of science.

Applicants must have a PhD or equivalent status, be working as independent researchers within five years of their first academic position and be resident in the UK at the time of the application. Non-tenured researchers and retired scientists may apply if the application is related to the history of science and the applicant works in association with an eligible institution. Eligible organisations are UK universities and non-profit research organisations, including institutes funded by the UK Research Councils.

Two types of grants are available for a maximum period of 12 months: grants worth up to £15,000 for specialised equipment, essential consumable materials and services, and travel and subsistence for essential field research and grants worth up to £15,000 for research in the history of science or up to £5,000 to assist with the publication of scholarly works on the history of science.