Funding opportunities, guidance and research news from URO at University of Lincoln.
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The Arts and Humanities Research Council has announced a series of cut-off dates for key funding schemes during 2010 due to upheaval caused by its move to the RCUK Shared Service Centre:
Important information for applicants to AHRC funding schemes in 2010
Here are the key points from the announcement:
Research Grants and Fellowships Schemes – AHRC will [...]
This was just blogged by Paul Stainthorp over on The Winch. It’s encouraging to hear that the repository is growing: the more high quality content is deposited, the higher the profile of the repository as a whole.
A milestone in the growth of the University of Lincoln Repository: today saw the deposit of the 1,000th item…
Massey, [...]
The Economic and Social Research Council is recruiting new members for three new policy committees and assessment panels from the 1st April 2010:
ESRC Committee and Panel Appointments
From the vacancy specification:
The panels will consider applications for all responsive mode schemes across the range of ESRC’s activities including research, people & skills, knowledge transfer and research methods [...]
The food research strategy, unveiled by the UK Chief Scientific Adviser John Beddington, involves collaboration between government departments, research councils (particularly BBSRC), industry and charities. The strategy aims to establish an “integrated community of researchers” across the UK to tackle food security and related research topics.
UK Cross-Government Food Research Strategy (PDF)
Relevant initiatives include:
a new multi-partner [...]
From the University’s Press Office – Research will help vulnerable people stay safe:
Mobility scooters could be fitted with tracking technology to help older and vulnerable people leave their homes without fear of getting lost.
Researchers at University of Lincoln and De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) aim to develop a device that fits into scooters and updates [...]
The Higher Education Policy Institute, an independent think-tank on HE and university-related policy issues, has released a critique of HEFCE’s REF consultation. The main criticism is aimed at the “experimental” use of economic and social impact to judge research quality. HEPI is particularly concerned at the large proposed role of impact assessment – 25% of [...]
On 17th September, Jill Partridge and I from the University of Lincoln Repository team attended the faculty of Media, Humanities and Technology annual research conference where we delivered a short presentation on open access, the repository and benefits to staff. Here’s our write-up of that presentation, to be published in the faculty’s newsletter, Ada’s Notes [...]
