BU Research Blog

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

British Council, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills under the Newton Fund and China’s Ministry of Education invite applications for their UK-China PhD placements and supervisor mobility grants. These grants enable PhD students and their supervisors from the UK or China to undertake a short period of study related to tackling global challenges, either at a higher education institution in China or in the UK. Placements are available in the following fields: health and life sciences, such as HIV and AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, child mortality and maternal health; environmental technologies, such as climate change, green technology, sustainable development, ecosystem services and resource scarcity; food and water security; energy; urbanisation; education and creative economy for economic development and social welfare. Studies must have direct relevance to both the UK’s and China’s social welfare and economic development. All applications must include both a PhD student and their supervisor.  Students may undertake visits lasting between three and 12 months, and their supervisor may visit for up to three months. Funding covers visa fees, international airfares, tuition fees, accommodation and stipend. Placements must start between January and December 2016.

Maximum award: Not specified. Closing date: 11.59pm, 10/10/15.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory invites applications, under its EMBL interdisciplinary postdocs (EIPOD) initiative, for the EI3POD postdoctoral programme. This enables postdoctoral fellows to undertake training on intellectual property, entrepreneurship and research, and take part in international, inter-institutional collaborations or an intersectorial experience, while carrying out interdisciplinary research projects. Applicants may choose one of the following career modules when applying or do so within the first 18 months of the start of their fellowship: interdisciplinary EIPOD – this is aimed at an academic career path and comprises an interdisciplinary research project, which includes one coordinating group leader and one partner laboratory both from EMBL faculty; international or inter-institutional EIPOD – this includes an interdisciplinary research project that should involve EMBL supervisors, and one external academic partner from a group from the EMBL network of institutionalised partnerships or collaborations; Intersectorial EIPOD – this involves an interdisciplinary research project that is designed to foster exposure to the applied or commercial side of science, and involves EMBL supervisors and either one industry partner from a group from the EMBL network of institutionalised partnerships or collaborations, or an active involvement of an EIPOD in intellectual property generation, out-licensing and, if applicable, in the first steps towards a spin-off activity. Applicants should have a PhD or four years of full-time equivalent research experience. Scientists who are currently doing postdoctoral research at other institutions may apply. Positions are funded for a three-year period and will be primarily based at EMBL; however, recipients may spend up to nine months at an EMBL Australia laboratory.

Maximum award: Not specified. Closing date: 10/09/15.

Natural Environment Research Council invites applications for its international opportunities fund, which provides resources to NERC-supported researchers to forge long-term partnerships with overseas scientists that add value to current NERC-funded science. The following two grants are available in this round: pump priming grants – each worth up to £40,000 at 80 per cent full economic cost for up to two years, to help researchers establish and develop novel, collaborative links with international partners; pump priming plus grants – each worth up to £320,000 at 80 per cent full economic cost for up to three years, to support establishment of novel international collaborative links which allow the development of partnerships that require more resources. PIs must be eligible for NERC discovery science funding and currently in receipt of NERC research funding as a PI through a NERC discovery science grant, a NERC strategic research programme grant, the research scientist at a NERC centre mechanism, or an independent research fellowship grant.

Maximum award: £320000. Closing date: 4pm, 24/09/15.

Please note that some funders specify a time for submission as well as a date. Please confirm this with your RKEO Funding Development Officer

You can set up your own personalised alerts on Research Professional. If you need help setting these up, just ask your School’s/Faculty’s Funding Development Officer in RKEO or view the recent blog post here.

If thinking of applying, why not add notification of your interest on Research Professional’s record of the bid so that BU colleagues can see your intention to bid and contact you to collaborate.