Research Councils from seven of the G8 nations have announced a five-year joint funding program to address major international challenges. The Multilateral Research Funding Initiative will announce a series of calls for funding to tackle global issues such as climate change, energy security, water shortages and the conservation of the environment.
The first call in this [...]
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Research Councils Announce International Collaborative Fund
EPSRC Study Days for 2010
The EPSRC has announced a series of study days for 2010 to be held at the EPSRC offices in Swindon.
The one-day events will give university staff an overview of EPSRC strategies and procedures, and will cover recent changes in peer review, the new requirements for impact plans and the steps taken by the EPSRC to safeguard [...]
ESRC is Recruiting New Panel Members
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 [...]
EPSRC Admin Study Day
Last week I attended an information and study day held by EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) for research administrators. It was a good opportunity to hear from EPSRC staff on the future direction of the Council, as well as share stories and network with research office staff from other UK institutions. We also [...]
Changes to ESRC Final Reporting
ESRC have recently written to us to let us know about changes to their final reporting requirements which affect any holders of ESRC grants. Here’s the email in full:
From 1st November 2009, the Council’s current requirement for a 5000 word End of Award Report three months after the end date of its award will [...]
Je-S Tip: Document Preview
If you use Je-S (Joint Electronic Submission) to submit proposals to any of the UK Research Councils, you may have overlooked the very useful Document Preview function, which was introduced a few months ago:
You’ll find this at the bottom of the Document Menu in any bid you’re working on in Je-S, just above the “Back [...]
ESRC Third Sector Placement Fellowships
The ESRC has recently announced a call for applications for the ESRC Third Sector Placement Fellowships.
The ESRC Third Sector Placement Fellowships enable social science researchers to spend time within a third sector organisation to undertake practice-relevant research and work with the host organisation on specific projects. It also provides opportunites for third sector employees to work [...]
MRC Issue Guidance on Common Rejection Reasons
The Medical Research Council has issued guidance to research administrators covering the top reasons why applications are returned to institutions for further editing. Although this is not strictly speaking a rejection – since the applications can be returned to the MRC within a specific timeframe – it does delay the assessment process significantly. MRC found [...]
