May 14
Interested in applying for EU fellowship funding, but not sure where to start? Need some advice and guidance? Northumbria academics and researchers are welcome along to a workshop being organised by Prof Olivier Sparagano, Associate Dean for Research in Health and Life Sciences on May 29th from 3-5pm in Northumberland Building 442. Professor Olivier Sparagano …
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 …
Apr 12
The Guardian HE Network has posted a message on LinkedIn looking for volunteers for its panel for their next HE live chat on “Research funding: writing a successful proposal” which is happening today (Friday 12th April) between 12-2pm. They’re particularly interested in identifying early career researchers and PhDs for the panel, although anyone with expertise in this …
Apr 11
Northumbria University has recently announced a new Innovation Project Awards scheme which enables the provision of up to £6000 of University funding towards qualifying R+D projects conducted by our research and consultancy staff. Successful projects will be eligible for a 50% subsidy against the full project cost – maximum project value £12,000. The scheme is …
Mar 26
Research Professional, the research news and funding database, is about to undergo some big changes in the way the news section is organised and disseminated: “News on Research Professional is being given a major update. Instead of being organised by publication (eg Research Fortnight or Research Europe), the news pages are being organised by topic (eg “UK” or …
Mar 26
Last Thursday Sam and I travelled down to London for ModernGov’s Accessing European Funding Seminar. It was an early start but worth it for some useful insights into the likely shape of Horizon 2020 (the successor funding programme to FP7), as well as crowd sourced hints and tips on developing a high quality Marie Curie …
Mar 18
As part of our continuing commitment to research and scholarship, Northumbria University is offering research degree studentships, available for uptake from September 2013. Applications are invited across the full range of disciplines offered by Northumbria University. Fully or partially funded studentships may include fees, an annual stipend, travel costs and consumables. For further details of our …
Mar 18
The final round of FP7 Marie Curie Fellowships calls was opened last week on the 14th March. The deadline is 14th August 2013 for all three kinds of Fellowships: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (IIF) Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) There’s an additional deadline of 18th September 2013 for the Career …
Mar 12
The ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, a European public-private partnership for research funding in embedded systems, has recently released its 2013 call for funding. The deadline for full proposals is 6th June 2013. You can read a summary of the call on the ARTEMIS 2013 call page. Full details can be found on the EU Participant Portal call page - you should read …
Mar 01
The Graduate School have just released issue 9 of GradScene [PDF], the newsletter for Postgraduate Researchers at Northumbria University. In this issue you’ll find stories about: PRES – The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey: what it is, when it runs and why it’s important to complete it. PGR Student Reps: A reminder of representatives for each Faculty. …
