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…
EPSRC unveils results of balancing exercise
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to decrease the share of its portfolio allocated to medical imaging, superconductivity and seven other areas, according to its latest prioritisation exercise. The results of Balancing Capability, one of the council’s three…
Benefits of SEDA Membership
The University of Lincoln has recently renewed its membership with SEDA, a ‘professional association for staff and educational developers in the UK, promoting innovation and good practice in higher education’. SEDA stands for Staff and Educational Development Association and was…
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…
MRC New Foundations for Ambitious New Programmes
The research councils have together announced the first phase of health research awards from the new £1.5bn Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). They will address issues affecting people in low and middle income countries (LMICs) using the UK’s world-class research…