A Lincolnshire-based online upholstery business called Heritage Upholstery is hoping to become the first in the UK to offer a 3D modelling and prototyping service to furniture manufacturers and restorers worldwide. Heritage Upholstery has been awarded an innovation voucher worth…
British Academy: e-GAP2 Grants Management System to Flexi-Grant
The British Academy is preparing to migrate from our current e-GAP2 Grants Management System to Flexi-Grant. Flexi-Grant will come online from 1 August 2017 and will provide a modern, user friendly platform with improved features for grant applicants. We expect that new…
Social science helping to close the gender gap
Sarah Womack is former political correspondent and social affairs correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, with a particular interest in women’s issues and social science. Here she writes about International Women’s Day, and how ESRC research contributes to its 2017 campaign…
Help! My stakeholders aren’t interested in my research
Taken from Issue 1: Fast Track Impact The two most common reasons why stakeholders may not be interested in your research are that: Your research is too narrow, niche or specific to be of significant interest; or Your research does…
5 Top Tips… for Motivation
1. Remember why you started Was it career progression? To prove you could do it – or to make your mum proud? Whatever it was, use this as fuel to power you through. 2. Give yourself a break No one…
Innovate UK Open Calls Announced
The competition is open to the best business-led, innovative or disruptive ideas or concepts. These can be drawn from any technology, engineering or industrial area. This area can be one that fits into, or be outside of, any one or…