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The following opportunities have been announced. Please follow the links for more information:

• AHRC are offering Digital Transformations Amplifications Awards.  Apply by 20/02/14 for up to £64,000.
• POST are hosting a new fellowship scheme in collaboration with the ESRC. Applications close 13/01/14.
• Would you be interested in giving this years Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture for the Royal Society?  This prestigious lectureship is accompanied by a medal and a gift of £500.  The deadline for nominations is 31/01/14.
• To those of you with an outstanding academic record in natural science, engineering or technology, whose work has the potential to improve the UK’s national prosperity there is up to £3,500 available through the Royal Society’s Mullard Award.  The award closes 28/02/14.
• The Bakerian Lecture is delivered annually at the Royal Society in London and is the premier lecture in the physical sciences.  The lectureship is accompanied by a medal and a £1,000 prize.  Nominations close 31/01/14.
• In support of the promotion of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, the Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture through the Royal Society is now open.  The award is a Silver gilt medal and a accompanying grant of £30,000.  Nominations close 31/01/14.
• Another prize lecture from the Royal Society you may want to apply for if your interests are in microbiology is the Leeuwenhoek prize lecture.  There is a £500 prize and a medal available with a deadline for nominations on 31/01/14.
• The Royal Society’s Coonian lecture has also opened for nominations.  This is the premier lecture in the biological sciences and is accompanied by a medal and a prize of £1000.  Nominations close on 31/01/14.
• To anyone who perhaps has a knack for science communication with the public you may be interested in applying for the Michael Faraday Prize for excellence in communicating science to UK audiences, worth £2,500 from the Royal Society.  Nominations close 31/01/14.
• The Milner Award, for outstanding achievements in computer science is now open for nominations.  The award is for £5000 from the Royal Society so be sure to apply before the award closes on 31/01/14.
• The Royal Society’s Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Prize is made for excellent use-inspired research on structural or functional materials that is both fundamental and for the benefit of society.  It is worth £2,000 and nominations close 31/01/14.
• Annual medals worth up to £5000 each in the fields of physical, chemical, biological and applied sciences are available from the Royal Society.  Apply before 31/01/14.
• Biennial medals (even years) from the Royal Society are also on offer, worth up to £1,000, from the Royal Society.  Apply before 31/01/14.
• Finally for Royal Society awards is the Francis Crick lecture in the subject of biology.  The lectureship is worth £500 and nominations close 31/01/14.
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership’s are available from the TSB.  To find about more about KTP’s at Bournemouth University take a look at these posts from the research blog.
• Investment of up to £10m for enabling technologies for genomics sequence data analysis and interpretation is available from the TSB. Up to £2m of this is available in Phase 1 with development contracts of a  maximum of £200,000 for up to 6 months.  Registration closes 26/01/14 and the award will close to applications 05/02/14.
• Investment of up to £75m in collaborative R&D projects in the field of low carbon vehicles is available from the TSB, in partnership with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Registration closes 29/01/14 with the final deadline for 05/02/14.
• University awards in society and ethics are available from the Wellcome Trust that will support outstanding early or mid-career researchers to secure permanent posts with their University.  The maximum award is unspecified and the closing date for applications is 20/06/14.
• The Wellcome Trust are offering a maximum of £250,000 for Research Fellowships for Health Professionals.  Please apply before 20/06/14.
• Also on offer from the Wellcome Trust are Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowships for Clinicians. Apply for a maximum of  £350,000 before 02/05/14.
• Intermediate clinical fellowships to enable candidates to continue their research interests at a post doc level at an appropriate clinical research facilty are available through the Wellcome Trust.  Apply by 06/05/14.
• The Wellcome Trust are offering up to £250,000 for research fellowships in society and ethics.  Apply by 20/06/14.

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