Mar 28
UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) started in April 2006 with the aim of enhancing educational links between India and the UK. UKIERI has been recognised as a key multi stakeholder programme that has strengthened the educational relations between the two countries and been successful in covering all segments of the education sector. UKIERI is …
Feb 17
AHRC has recently announced the outcome of its first collaborative doctoral partnerships (CDP) competition. Twelve organisations and consortia with a strong track record in running Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs – joint PhDs between arts, culture and heritage organisations and HEIs) have been successful in this round of funding. In total 55 CDAs per year will be distributed across …
Dec 05
3D Printing, or to give it its slightly less memorable moniker “additive manufacturing”, has been hailed as a revolutionary and game-changing tool for design and manufacturing. Although it is already well established, market uptake has been slow. The UK’s Technology Strategy Board is now collaborating with AHRC, EPSRC, and ESRC to fund business-led industrial research …
Oct 03
The AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards scheme (also known as CASE awards) provides support for doctoral students to carry out a research project run in conjunction with a non-academic organisation. The award provides standard RCUK fees and maintenance allowance for a doctoral student and must be run as a collaboration which allows the student to develop …
Sep 07
Your research could meet the needs of SMEs Research for the Benefit of SMEs is a European funding programme with a budget of €250M which supports research and technological development to meet the needs of SMEs across Europe. This is done by subcontracting research and development activities to RTD performers (e.g. universities). It is a “bottom up” …
Sep 03
The next deadline for KTP submissions is 22nd November 2012 so if you’re thinking of applying, you’ll need to prepare an Expression of Interest, then a full application. This process takes around 6-8 weeks in total so you need to be thinking of starting by mid-September. Please contact KTP manager Bill Frain for further information and support. What’s a …
Jul 30
The next deadline for KTP submissions is 4th October 2012 so if you’re thinking of applying, you’ll need to prepare an Expression of Interest, then a full application. This process takes around 6-8 weeks in total so you need to be thinking of starting in early August. Please contact KTP manager Bill Frain for further …
Jul 11
If you’re a researcher in the arts and humanities interested in putting together funding for an FP7 proposal you can now access funding from the AHRC to cover travel, subsistence and meeting costs related to bid development: AHRC: European Proposal Support Fund Funding for up to £10,000 (non-FEC) is available to help with costs solely …
Jul 09
Bill Frain, the University’s KTP Manager, provides support for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, from initial ideas and proposal development through to management of successful projects. If you’ve never considered KTPs before and want to know how they can enable you to develop links with companies and lead to innovative products and services, here’s a reminder from …
Jun 29
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has published its strategy for investing in the UK’s High Value Manufacturing sector: High Value Manufacturing Strategy: 2012-2015 The HVM sector is a major contributor to the global and UK economies, however increasingly globalisation has led to a shift in the manufacturing base to countries with lower labour costs. The …
