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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Administrative support and a venue for many of the activities will be provided by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences. See link to ICMS below.

Visitor programme

We will operate a visitor programme to bring key researchers (academic and industrial) to work with project participants. Important selection criteria will be the ability of the visitor to act as an exemplar of good practice in interdisciplinary working, as well as scientific excellence and detailed knowledge to contribute to specific problems. We will also coordinate other activities, such as workshops, seminars and working in pairs with the visitors to benefit a wider range of researchers.

The aim is to get local collaborations going, so the visitor should be acting in some way to facilitate or encourage that.
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Coordination: Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Edinburgh Research Partnership (ERP)