Apr 25
Congraulations to Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a collaboration between the universities of Northumbria, Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland and Teesside, which has secured funding for the next five years. The £4M funding is provided by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration initiative, a consortium of 8 of the UK’s leading health research funders including …
Feb 06
Round 3 of the Digging into Data Challenge opened yesterday. This international research funding competition, representing funders from 10 countries including JISC, AHRC and ESRC, has been held every two years since 2009 and seeks to “explore how computationally intensive research methods can be used to ask new questions about and gain new insights into …
Dec 14
We’ve added a new feature to the blog today – a funding opportunities page which will be updated regularly with the latest calls and upcoming deadlines for the months ahead. This contains information on funder, limits, deadlines, a summary of the call as well as a link to the funder’s webpage. Every time the page …
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 …
Aug 02
This has turned out to be an ageing-themed research week. Earlier this week we had news of the MRC and ESRC’s Extending Working Lives call, now those two funders together with 7 others have released a new call for research on Promoting Physical Activity in Older Age. At a glance: call facts Applications must be …
Jul 30
Hot on the heels of the Design for Wellbeing: Ageing and Mobility in the Built Environment call released a couple of months ago, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have jointly released two major new calls for research on the theme of Extending Working Lives: Extending Working Lives: Research …
Jul 26
Social science researchers may be interested in an announcement by ESRC that it will be investing £17 million over five years in a new data archive service to support researchers in academia, business, third sector and government. ESRC states that the new service will provide a unified point of access to a wide range of economic …
Jul 23
ESRC has recently announced the second round of its annual funding competition for Future Research Leaders: 2012/13 Call for Proposals: Future Research Leaders The call, which replaced the Council’s first grants scheme in 2011, aims to support high quality researchers at an early stage of their career. Applicants must apply in conjunction with a host …
Jun 22
The Belmont Forum and the G8 Heads of Research Councils are jointly calling for research projects on coastal vulnerability and freshwater security. UK participation in this multilateral scheme is coordinated by NERC and ESRC. It’s worth noting that different eligibility requirements apply depending on your disciplinary background: from the social sciences any researcher eligible for …
Jun 08
Following the recently released EPSRC/AHRC/ESRC Design for Wellbeing call, Research and Business Services have organised a collaboration meeting for all interested parties to discuss the call and how they might contribute to any proposals which go forward. It will take place on Friday 15th June, 10 am – 12 midday in City Campus East building …
