Funding opportunities, guidance and research news from URO at University of Lincoln.
There has been quite a lot of speculation recently on the implications of last week’s budget for the UK Higher Education sector in general, and research funding in particular. ResearchResearch.com reports on two responses to this question:
Universities fearful of £400m cut to DIUS (accessible on campus or if you have an account)
Both express reservation at [...]
Joss Winn has just blogged about the successful JISC bid for Chemistry.FM. JISC have committed £18K to this which follows on from work carried out under the CERD-funded Fund for Educational Development Scheme. See below for more details:
The university has successfully bid for £18,000 project funding under JISC’s Open Educational Resources Programme. The project will [...]
Paul Stainthorp just blogged this on The Winch. The Repository is an important way you can make your research more “visible” to the wider academic community, and the support provided by the Library will be invaluable in facilitating this:
We want to make your research easier to find, so the Library’s team of two professional cataloguers have now [...]
The British Academy of Management is offering the below training opportunity open to both members and non-members. If your research is in the area of Business and Management it is well worth attending.
Title: Writing a Successful ESRC Research grant proposal in the Area of Business and Management
Location: BAM Office, 137 Euston Road, London
More details: Click [...]
ResearchResearch reported yesterday on three new collaborative cross-council programmes unveiled by the seven UK research councils aimed at addressing “emerging challenges” faced by the UK.
From researchresearch.com:
The three themes, which were announced at a Research Councils UK meeting at the Royal Society on 6 April, are food security, fostering economic recovery and connected communities, which focuses [...]
The University Research Office (URO) have launched a scheme to support University of Lincoln staff who want to write a bid for an external research grant. BEGINS (Bidding for External income, Graduate INternship Scheme) provides funding to employ a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) to assist on a specific project activity which will lead, directly or [...]
