PROJECT FINISHED

Call for proposals (internal) - NOW CLOSED

Academic staff in the Edinburgh Research Partnership (ERP) and closely related areas in both Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities are invited and encouraged to apply for pump-priming funding to start long-term multidisciplinary research projects involving local participants from both engineering and the mathematical sciences.

Light touch application process: We have the money from EPSRC already. You tell us briefly (one paragraph might be enough) what you want to do (see below) and our internal ERP committee will respond quickly with a yes or no.

Applicants should explain how their proposal aims to establish a long-term partnership between mathematical scientists and engineers within the ERP or closely related areas.

The main funding is for time recovery for permanent staff (like standard co-I time recovery on a research grant), so that an agreed amount of money will flow to your department for participating in this programme. We also have funds to support visitors etc., but, in general, we cannot fund PhD students or temporary research staff like PDRAs (e.g. we cannot pay to extend their contracts). See the information below.

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Highlighted activitiy

• Supervising PhD students in pairs

Examples of activities

• Problem scoping workshops
• Working in pairs
• Mathematician/Engineer in residence
• Visitor Programme
• Short courses, conferences and visits
• Seminar programme and problem showcase

Funding

Funding is available to offset some of the time of permanent academic staff involved in these various activities, and will be paid to the relevant departments or Schools. While it is up to the department or School involved to decide on what to do with this income, we hope that some of it can be used to benefit other research activities of the people working on this project. As a rule of thumb, most approved activities will get funding equivalent to 1 or 2 weeks Lecturer B rate with overheads. Also, there is money to cover the direct costs of visitors, seminars and workshops.

The scheme cannot be used to fund students or RAs or to hire temporary staff.

To apply for funding, please fill out the application form.