https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/research/for-researchers/apply-for-a-research-grant/clinical-pioneer-awards/

Funding is aimed at clinicians and non-clinicians with innovative project ideas that are focused on practical interventions within the clinical or community setting and that can be adopted in an optimal pancreatic cancer pathway. Such interventions can include drive down waiting times (time to diagnosis; time to treatment; time to referral), improve survival, quality of life and patient experience and deliver a consistent standard of care for people affected by pancreatic cancer

A total of £200,000 is available. Funding will be awarded to a maximum of 4 awards. For each award, a total of up to £50,000 is available to support directly incurred research costs for up to 12 months.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS  1pm 27 NOVEMBER 2019

18 November 2019, noon

Prostate Cancer UK – Travelling Prize Fellowships

https://prostatecanceruk.org/research/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/travelling-prize-fellowships

aim to provide a unique opportunity for the most outstanding early career researchers to begin to develop their independent research careers, working in the best research environments in the UK and overseas.

• Awards are for three to four years. A period of at least six months must be spent outside of the Fellows’ host institution (either elsewhere in the UK, or abroad). Awards can be for up to £250,000 if solely based in the UK, or a total of £300,000 if the Fellowship includes a placement at one or more institutions outside the UK.
• Applicants must be within 2 years of their PhD viva (reasonable career breaks will be taken into consideration). Candidates may also apply if they are in the final year of their PhD, but in this instance, they will be expected to have successfully passed their viva within the next 12 months.
• Travelling Prize Fellowships must be held at a UK-based University, NHS site or other recognised higher research institution.

18 October 2019, noon

Expert Members Sought for the NERC/UKRI SPF Constructing a Digital Environment Programme
https://digitalenvironment.org/funding/

24 experts are sought, comprising 8 early career experts, 8 senior UK-based experts and 8 international experts.
Members will be in post for an annual term, with a prospect of renewal over the 3-year programme period. All reasonable costs will be covered. Fellowship grants will be provided to early stage experts.

The focus of the Constructing a Digital Environment Programme is on developing a ‘digitally enabled environment’, providing benefits for policy makers, businesses, communities and individuals.
It combines environmental science, computer science, data science and behavioural science

Prostate Cancer UK – Existing Trials: New Answers

https://prostatecanceruk.org/research/for-researchers/funding-opportunities/major-awards-201920-existing-trials-new-answers

for proposals looking to utilise and interrogate existing patient samples and/or data from recently completed or ongoing prostate cancer clinical trials, or from other data/sample repositories.

25 September 2019 (Letter of Intent)      16 December 2019 (invited full application)

The Komen Tissue Bank Challenge: Using Normal Tissue to Fight Breast Cancer
https://ww5.komen.org/ResearchGrants/FundingOpportunities.html

Funding for researchers proposing innovative research using samples or data derived from the Komen Tissue Bank (KTB), a biorepository containing breast tissue and blood products from donors that show no evidence of breast cancer at the time of donation.

value of up to $200,000 for up to two years.

15 September 2019

The Global Young Academy (GYA)
https://globalyoungacademy.net/call-for-new-members/

GYA is looking for young scholars (typically aged 30-40 and typical period from completion of a PhD or similar degree is 3-10 years) who combine excellence in research with a demonstrated passion for delivering positive social impact.

23 October 2019, 5pm

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/knowledge-frontiers-international-interdisciplinary-2020

• Awards of 24 months in duration and up to £200,000 are available.
• Funding can be used to support research expenses and consumables; travel and subsistence; networking, meeting and conference costs; and research and/or clerical assistance (postdoctoral or equivalent).
• Awards are offered on a 100% full economic costing basis.
• Projects must begin on 1 April 2020.

Eligibility requirements

• The lead applicant must be a researcher from the humanities or social sciences, and be based at an eligible UK university or research institute. S/he must be of postdoctoral or above status (or have equivalent research experience).
• Projects must involve at least one co-applicant from the natural, engineering and/or medical sciences. Collaboration between researchers in different institutions is encouraged, where appropriate, given the nature and aims of the programme, and applications may include co-applicants and other participants from overseas.

The British Academy is inviting proposals from UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to develop international interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with colleagues from the natural, engineering and/or medical sciences, with a focus on hazard and risk, cultures of forecasting, and the meaning of resilience.

The purpose of each project will be to develop new international research ideas. Projects will need to also demonstrate an innovative and interdisciplinary partnership (between researchers in the social sciences or the humanities on the one hand and counterparts in the natural, engineering and/or medical sciences on the other). The Academy is looking to fund applications that break new ground in the collaborations – international and interdisciplinary – they support and the research they aim to undertake. The Academy particularly encourages applications led by scholars in the humanities.

Projects must relate to one or more of the following themes:

• Hazard and Risk: Hazard and risk as concepts and lived experience are ripe for significant interdisciplinary and international collaboration, which the Academy hopes to encourage in applications. The direct impacts of hazard and risk, such as the economic and physical are well-known, however, they are often not linked with indirect impacts, such as mental health and people’s broader well-being. Applications that aim to re-imagine hazard and risk to help build preparedness and awareness and to create new co-produced knowledge collaborations and participatory approaches are particularly welcome. The Academy is keen to support the development of novel interactions, including with local communities, and/or new interfaces for the understanding and perception of hazard and risk that bring together different forms of lived experience, storytelling, evidence, data and models.
• Cultures of Forecasting: Uncertainty is not novel to our current time and neither is the desire and ability to forecast into the future. Understanding, however, of different cultures of forecasting in our current uncertain times needs further exploration. The Academy wishes to encourage applications that aim to bring together different communities of expertise – academic, professional, business, lay, community for example – to further understand the interactions between nature, culture and human endeavour that lead to contested futures in the present and further develop this contestation or could provide grounds for collaboration between, for example, faith, rituals, lived experience, modelling and data science.
• Meaning of Resilience: Resilience as a concept has gained considerable resonance in recent years but remains ambiguous in its meaning and thus lacking in utility. For too long, resilience has been thought of as a uniform social property, rather than as a collaboration between humans and non-humans, or as a situated cultural practice. The Academy wishes to harness new thinking on narrating human experience of resilience by exploring how meanings, values and cultural expressions shape societal interpretations of resilience as well as individual and community forms of preparedness to adversity in a variety of forms. The Academy aims to help improve understanding of how resilience is formed, or not, in different societies and how this is understood and embedded in culture, historical practice, and socio-technical infrastructures.

Previous awards can be seen here:

For 2018 https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/knowledge-frontiers-international-interdisciplinary-research-projects-2018

For 2017 https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/knowledge-frontiers-international-interdisciplinary-2017

The next submission round for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Standard Grants, including New Investigator Awards, will be in January 2020 (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/available/researchgrants/standard/).

As many of you will be aware, in February 2015, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) introduced ‘Demand Management’ measures to limit the number and size of applications submitted to its standard grants competitions: www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/available/researchgrants/demand/.  This resulted in NERC restricting the number of Newcastle University applications and the University subsequently implementing an internal selection process.

As of July 2019, NERC removed the cap on the number of applications Newcastle can submit for the July 2019 and January 2020 rounds. This is because Newcastle’s success rate over the previous six rounds had risen above 20%. Now the cap has been removed, we’d like to encourage more applications to NERC. To ensure that we maintain success rates above the 20% threshold the NERC Application Support Panel continue to be committed to supporting the University in ensuring that we have the highest quality NERC applications as possible.

The intention of the process is not to select a limited number of proposals from the pool of applications submitted to the internal NERC support panel. The focus will be on maintaining the quality of a larger number of applications to the NERC than was possible previously. The aim is to increase our research activity in areas of NERC science while ensuring we avoid being placed under demand management in the future.

If you would like to be considered for the January 2020 round, you will need to do the following:

1. Inform Holly Davidson (holly.davidson@ncl.ac.uk) of your intent to apply and provide the names of 3 Newcastle University members who could review your proposal by Monday 16^th September;
2. Submit your full NERC proposal by Tuesday 1^st October. This should be the JeS print-out of your full proposal, including all costs, JeS sections and attachments (case for support etc.).  This is so that our reviewers and panel can give you the best possible feedback. For support with the costing on your proposal, please engage with the SAgE Projects Team as soon as possible by completing the Project Initiation Form. A member of the Projects Team will then be in contact with you to help. If you are from the HaSS or FMS Faculties, please contact your local support for costing support.

Internal peer review will be carried out at the beginning of October. You will then be given the opportunity to respond to your reviewers’ comments towards the end of October. The Newcastle NERC Application Support Panel will then meet during the week commencing 11^th November.

You will be given feedback as soon as possible after the meeting. You will then have until the NERC deadline in January 2020 to refine your proposal. The timings of this support process have been set following feedback from previous applicants that they needed as much time as possible to refine their proposal in response to the reviewer and panel feedback.

Details of the Newcastle NERC Application Support Panel and how it works are given in the attached document.

Newcastle University NERC Application Support – January 2020 round

If you have any questions about the support process please contact Holly Davidson (holly.davidson@ncl.ac.uk).

Call status: Pre-announcement
Call open date: 2 September 2019 (subject to change)
Call closing date: 23 October 2019 (subject to change)

BBSRC 19ALERT: Mid-range equipment initiative
https://bbsrc.ukri.org/funding/filter/19alert-mid-range-equipment-initiative/
The scope of the call is currently being defined but proposals should consider equipment that will be used collaboratively by more than one organisation, whilst strengthening capability across multiple areas of the UKRI-BBSRC remit. Applicants are also encouraged to pioneer the use of emerging advanced research technologies and to utilise equipment in novel applications.

Value for money will be an important factor in assessment. Consequently, whilst contributions (both financial and in-kind) from the host institution(s) and/or other external sources are not mandatory, they are strongly encouraged. The call is open only to individuals and organisations normally eligible to apply to UKRI-BBSRC for research grants, see Section 3 of the BBSRC grants guide (PDF 976KB).

Further information will be provided as soon as it is available

The BBSRC Global Challenges Research Fund Strategic Training Awards for Research Skills (GCRF-STARS) programme aims to build a portfolio of sustainable and timely training resources to up-skill and develop researchers and graduate students, in research priority areas, in the UK and developing countries within the research skills required to help tackle global challenges.
BBSRC welcomes applications for support of any research capability within its remit, but applications must emphasise the specific global challenge of relevance to the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) that they will be working in, and in particular those challenges highlighted as targets that are priorities for developing countries:
• Secure and resilient food systems.
• Sustainable health and wellbeing.
• Affordable and sustainable energy.
• Sustainable livelihoods, economic growth through the circular bioeconomy.
• Resilience and environmental change.
• Sustainable production and consumption.
• Prevention of diseases in humans and farm animals relevant to the developing country.
• Prevention of crop disease in varieties grown in/developed for developing countries.
Applications outside these areas are welcome, but a strong, evidenced case for why the topic addresses global challenges skills is essential. Standard BBSRC eligibility rules apply, lead and co-applicants must be employed by an eligible higher education institution, research institute or independent research organisation (IRO).
A total of up to £500,000 is available to support the training activities through this programme in the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021. Individual applications may seek BBSRC funding of up to £100,000 (in total, across the duration of the award). Funding is at 100% fEC.
GCRF-STARS awards are flexible and may be used to support strategic skills for a short, discrete period or for up to three years of recurrent funding. Applications should provide clear justification for the duration and size of awards proposed.

Applications must be made through the Je-S system by the deadline of 16 October 2019 (16:00).