Funding opportunities, guidance and research news from URO at University of Lincoln.
From later on today, when you go to www.researchresearch.com from a campus PC you’ll be taken to the new, upgraded Research Professional site. Research Professional offers the latest research funding news and opportunities, as well as a comprehensive searchable database of all funding schemes. Here’s how it will look when you visit:
On the left is [...]
The UROS scheme for 2009 was officially opened to all UL academic staff today (18-02-09). This scheme aims to enhance the links between teaching and research in the undergraduate curriculum by providing students with the opportunity to undertake a research project. The award provides students with a stipend of up to £1500 per project. Application forms and guidance notes are available on [...]
UK Research Office has suggested that the EC plans to shift the focus for the Social Sciences and Humanities theme in FP7 towards projects which address large-scale “societal challenges”. Each challenge (to be identified) is likely to attract around €8 – 10M of funding for a single project with between 7 and 15 partners. This marks [...]
Paul’s just blogged this at The Winch:
News that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has agreed to mandate open access publication for research that it has funded, bringing it in line with the other 6 councils and with RCUK’s policy statement. Guidance on open access is available on the C.E.R.D. Academic Commons website.
Links:
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/AboutEPSRC/AccessInfo/ROAccess.htm
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/
http://commons.lincoln.ac.uk/open-access/
http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/faq.html
Title: Working Smarter with the Web: Workshops to Improve your Research
Location: Computing Services Training Room 1, MAB, Brayford Campus
Date: 18th Feb 2009
Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 13:30
Portal Page: Click here
Description: This workshop aims to help academic and research staff improve their research by making better use of the web.
Do you want to:
improve the way you search for funding information?
improve [...]
From the staff message list (and also blogged at The Winch):
Following the University’s recent success in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Professor Andrew Hunter and I are holding three RAE Roadshows. All academic and support staff are invited to attend to learn more about, and discuss, the RAE outcome and future plans for research [...]
The Leverhulme Trust announced in January that they will fund approximately 70 Early Career Fellowships in the 2009 competition:
Leverhulme – Early Career Fellowships
These awards provide an opportunity for those without full-time permanent academic posts in UK institutions to develop their research careers. Award holders will be expected to produce a significant publishable piece of research [...]
