The call has just opened for grant applications to The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity with a closing date of 18^th June 2018 at 5pm. Please find the guidance notes and application form below.

JRESC – Application form – April 2018

Guidance for applicants 2018

Now open for booking!

Newcastle University’s Research Funding Development Team would like to invite you to attend 2 NERC funding training sessions in July 2018.

NERC Getting those Grants

Monday 4^th July
09:30 until 16:30

This session will give the latest information on how NERC funding works and how to prepare a strong funding proposal.  For more information and to register to attend, please go to https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=1700587. 

NERC Mock Peer Review Panel

Monday 9^th July
12:00 until 16:30

This event will allow you to observe or take part in a simulation of a NERC funding panel.  You will discuss and rank genuine NERC proposals.  This will be an excellent opportunity to see how funding is awarded and how you can tailor your proposals to give yourself the best chance of success in this system.  For more information and to register to attend, please go to https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=1257990. 

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships Briefing
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
12.30 to 14.00 – Armstrong Building, Room 1.48

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships provide opportunities to work on research within Europe or outside Europe. Fellows must always move, or have just moved, country to take up the fellowship. The 2018 call is due to open on 12 April 2018, with a deadline of 12 September 2018.

·         European Fellowships take place in host institutions in EU Member States or Associated Countries and are open to researchers either coming to Europe or moving within Europe

·         Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to a host institution in a country outside Europe followed by a mandatory return period to a European host institution.

The briefing will concentrate on the career development potential of the scheme and how to write a good proposal, and is aimed at academics wishing to bring a fellow to Newcastle and prospective fellows themselves.  We would also encourage school research support staff to attend. The session will include case studies presented by successful applicants.

Registration is available at this link.

If you have any questions or if you require further information please do to hesitate to get in touch.

Many thanks,

Dajana

Dajana Dzanovic
EU and International Research Funding Team Manager
Research Strategy and Development
Newcastle University
King’s Gate (Level 5)
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK

Tel: +44 (0)191 208 5373
Email: dajana.dzanovic@ncl.ac.uk
Twitter: @euandintncl

We have opened calls for our Wellcome Trust funded SMALL GRANT and BROADENING OUR HORIZONS schemes.

The Small Grant Scheme aims to provide seedcorn funding to allow researchers to:

• test the feasibility of initial ideas and of potential future studies;
• produce preliminary data;
• raise the quality of outputs by supporting additional experimentation often required by the higher ranking journals.

The scheme is open to scientific and clinical projects and will specifically encourage inter-disciplinary research across institutes and faculties.  The scheme will be aimed at high-quality individuals who have limited funding, in particular applications from early year researchers are encouraged.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/wellcome/#smallgrantsscheme

THERE IS NEW PROCESS TO STREAMLINE COSTINGS AND ADMINISTRATION OF THESE AWARDS.   APPLICANTS ARE ASKED TO SUBMIT INDICATIVE COSTS AS PART OF THE APPLICATION (GUIDE: £5k -£10k MAX).  APPLICATIONS WILL BE FULLY COSTED BY RESEARCH SUPPORT OFFICERS (AND TRUST EQUIVALENTS WHERE NHS COSTS ARE INVOLVED) AFTER AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT BY THE PANEL OF THE QUALITY OF THE PROPOSAL AND PRIOR TO APPROVAL BEING GRANTED.

The BROADENING OUR HORIZONS SCHEME crosses all career stages and pathways (researchers, core facilities’ staff and technicians).

The scheme will provide funding to cover travel, accommodation costs and meeting expenses (where no external funding schemes exist for this purpose) to allow for:

• attendance at specialist training courses or conferences;
• short placements in other labs and scientific facilities develop collaborations, strengthen existing skills or to develop skills and expertise in a new technique or discipline;
• organisation of small meetings and sandpit events in order to bring researchers from different research disciplines together;

and for Early Career Researchers

• to allow them to receive mentorship from a research leader in their field outside Newcastle in order to develop their own career and professional network and to increase links between external leaders and Newcastle.

THIS IS A REACTIVE SCHEME, SO APPLICATIONS CAN BE MADE AT ANY TIME, AND FUNDS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED UNTIL THEY RUN OUT.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/wellcome/#broadeningourhorizons

We will also be launching calls for the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity (formerly the “Special Trustees awards”) and Confidence in Concept schemes in the next week or so and I will forward details of these when they have been confirmed.

The next internal panel to consider applications to be submitted to the ESRC New Investigator Grant scheme will meet in April 2018.

New Investigator Grants form one element of ESRC’s support for early career researchers and the scheme is specifically aimed at supporting those looking to make the transition to an independent researcher through managing their first major research project. These grants replace their Future Research Leaders scheme. Full details are here: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding/funding-opportunities/new-investigator-grants/.

The call is open to high-quality candidates from anywhere in the world who have a maximum of four years’ postdoctoral experience and the support of an eligible UK research organisation. Grants ranging from £100,000 to £300,000 full Economic Cost (fEC) can be awarded, with grants between 3 and 5 years.

The call is open to applicants both with and without a permanent academic post, but they must have strong support from a host UK institution. This includes a mentor, and provision of career development support which includes a programme of activities tailored to the needs of the applicant covering project management, methods development, KE activities and impact training, and international networking.

Proposals are welcomed across the full disciplinary range of the social sciences and at the interface with the wider sciences, however the social sciences must represent at least 50 per cent of the research focus and effort.

Following the previously agreed protocol, all applications to be submitted to this scheme will go through an internal selection panel. Candidates are required to submit a 6 page case for support (following ESRC guidance), a 2 page CV and a 2 page mentor CV. Applications must have full support of the Research Director and Head of School to be put forward to the internal panel. There will be representatives from all 3 Faculties on the panel, which will be chaired by the Dean of Research and Innovation in HaSS.

All documents for the panel should be submitted to Wendy Davison (wendy.davison@ncl.ac.uk). The deadline for submission of documents for the internal panel is 12pm on Monday 16^th April 2018. Applications submitted after this deadline will be required to submit to the following panel.