We expect to launch new calls for IAA Impact Starter Grants, Follow-on Fund projects, and Knowledge Transfer Fellowships in late 2021 or early 2022, for projects to start from 1st April 2022 onwards. You can apply if you have a PhD or equivalent research experience by the start date of your fellowship. You must have one of the following: a PhD at least four years' experience in a relevant field. This EPSRC funded research project is entitled '(e,gamma,2e) Threshold Spectroscopy - A new method to study collisional excitation of atoms . I investigated the driving forces of economic perfomance of cities . The amount of time spent on a fellowship can vary over the funding period. Accessibility statement; Freedom of flexibility to accommodate changes to family circumstances, a cohort group of fellows to encourage and support networking, the opportunity to demonstrate a wide range of skills beyond a publication list, the opportunity to have a secondment or part-time placement working with industry, the opportunity to collaborate with another organisation beyond your host institution. There is no limit on how much funding you can request. Sign up for news, views, events and funding alerts. This is to maintain the technological research leadership that the UK has established in quantum technologies through the NQTP. the opportunity to develop your national and international networks. However, prioritisation meetings generally find reviews most useful where they explicitly identify the main strengths and weaknesses in the application, while also giving a clear view on which should be accorded the greater significance and why. Presentations can come at TOP TIP Preparing your presentation You may be asked to make a presentation at your the beginning of an interview or be separated from the question and answer (Q&A) and held at a diferent time. In these circumstances, the duration of your fellowship can be extended pro rata. EPSRC is fully committed to develop and promote responsible innovation. See the Je-S handbook for full advice on completing applications. Applicants should ensure they are aware of and comply with any internal institutional deadlines that may be in place. Submissions to this call will count towards the EPSRC repeatedly unsuccessful applicants policy. We expect a bespoke, personalised level of support which is not only suitable for the career stage of the applicant but also commensurate with the personal development aims outlined in the application. The things you must do before you start your application for a fellowship: You must apply using the Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) system. As EPSRC fellowships are explicitly to support the fellow, all their own direct costs should be included and justified. Panel Date: Panel Name: Outcome: 10 May 2018: EPSRC UKRI CL Innovation Fellowship Interview Panel 6 - 10 and 11 May 2018: Announced: Summary on Grant Application Form: Read the guidance on institutional eligibility. This is prorated for part-time fellows, at a minimum of 50% FTE. developing an equality, diversity and inclusion research culture, knowledge building of responsible innovation and trusted research and innovation, development of skills required to lead and manage a research team. EPSRC will not fund a project if it believes that there are ethical concerns that have been overlooked or not appropriately accounted for. The proposal, reviewers comments and your response will then go to a panel that will score it against our assessment criteria and rank it with other proposals. It involves technologies such as distributed databases, applied cryptography, networks, protocols, and algorithms. Reviewers are requested to comment on the degree of research excellence of the proposal, making reference to three key aspects: Applicants are asked to set their proposal in context, in terms of the current state of knowledge and other work under way in the field. Will the applicants career development plan enable them to develop an independent career by the end of the fellowship? Quantum technologies are set to transform the global society and economy with significant efforts being put into developing quantum technologies around the world. College of Science & Engineering. Funding is available for between three to five years. The six levels of the scoring scale are as follows. We support early and established fellowships in all areas of EPSRC remit, covering: If you are not currently in an academic position, your host organisation must be prepared to give you the same level of support as it would for an academic member of staff. how arrangements described for accessing equipment are viable, appropriate and justified, especially any university or third-party contribution (if required). Find examples of projects we have funded by searching for fellowship in our online portfolio. You can apply for up to five years for an open fellowship award. a cover letter (no page limit), this will not be seen by peer reviewers. Research has the ability to not only produce understanding, knowledge and value, but also unintended: We recognise that we have a duty of care to promote approaches to responsible innovation that will: Therefore, applicants are expected to work within the EPSRC framework for responsible innovation. It may be that you feel you can only comment with authority on a specific part or component of an application, for example with a multidisciplinary project, or perhaps where there is a strong user-led element. The Fellowship funds a researcher or member of academic staff to undertake a 3-12 month secondment to a business or other partner organisation. a preferred location for investors and global talent. You may request funding for: Individual items of equipment between 10,000 and 400,000 can be included on proposals for individual research projects if: Additional justification of the requirement for individual items of equipment between 10,000 and 400,000 and details of the proposed contribution to the cost of the equipment must be provided in the justification of resources (JoR). In these circumstances the duration of your fellowship can be extended pro rata. If you want to work part-time, you can hold your EPSRC fellowship part-time as well, at a minimum of 50% of your time. Instead, they should describe the impacts on an individuals track record and career development. BBSRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost. You can save completed details in Je-S at any time and return to continue your application later. All relevant parts of the ethical information section must be completed. EPSRC have yet to announce this year's timings or procedure. For example, superposition or entanglement, to address the challenges of translation of quantum science through technology to eventual application. You may apply for funding for facilities costs and cruise costs. have identified training and development needs to enable you to expand or enhance your role and career. A full justification for your assessment of the application should be included in each section. https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/quantum-technology-career-development-fellowships, Browse our areas of investment and support, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), details of eligibility and a list of recognised institutes and IROs, EPSRC repeatedly unsuccessful applicants policy, visas for carrying out research in the UK, National Quantum Technology Programme (NQTP), how to build international collaborations (CPNI), how to prepare an equipment business case (EPSRC), guidance on equipment below 10,000 (including VAT), EPSRC framework for responsible innovation, Joint Electronic Submission system (Je-S), quantum technology career development fellowship guidance (PDF, 198KB). Leading UK photonics company licenses PhD student's deep learning technology 30 Nov, 2022 EPSRC funded researcher creates an open access tool to benchmark and investigate data network systems 22 Nov, 2022 PhD student from the IPES CDT awarded the prestigious IEEE Photonics Graduate Scholarship 18 Nov, 2022 PhD student monitors the brain activity of volunteers listening to music at festival . The proposal, reviewers comments and your response will then go to a panel that will score it against our assessment criteria and rank it with other proposals. We will not accept uninvited resubmissions of projects that have been submitted to UKRI or any other funder. Your proposal must include a career development work package. EPSRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost of equipment. Following the prioritisation panel, we will invite successful candidates to interview. This application is scientifically or technically flawed, This application does not meet one or more of the assessment criteria, This application meets all assessment criteria but with clear weaknesses, This is a good application that meets all assessment criteria but with minor weaknesses, This is a strong application that broadly meets all assessment criteria. A risk with part assessment is that it will miss the added value of the overall project (the whole ideally being greater than the sum of the parts) so even where you can only comment with authority on one aspect, it will be helpful to the panel to have your views on how compelling the arguments for the overall application are. When assessing the support from the host, more is not inherently better. Panel Date: Panel Name: Outcome: 10 May 2018: EPSRC UKRI CL Innovation Fellowship Interview Panel 9 - 10 and 11 May 2018: Announced: Summary on Grant Application Form: You must allow sufficient time for your organisations submission process. . We are always open for applications for fellowships. This is for applicants planning to include international collaborators on their proposal. You may request funding for: We expect eligible research organisations to submit the best candidates for these fellowships. Applicants can start within six months of their proposed start date. Submissions to this call will count towards the EPSRC repeatedly unsuccessful applicants policy. EPSRC Research Fellow University of Oxford Jun 2020 - Present 2 years 9 months. Let us know if you have feedback or would like to help us test new developments. You are asked to comment on the effectiveness of the proposed planning and management arrangements in the proposal. We expect eligible research organisations to submit the most suitable candidates for these fellowships and identify the additional support and resources they will provide the applicant with if successful. Eligibility Nominated candidates: Must be EPSRC funded students (that is, they must have received fees and/or stipend from an EPSRC training grant, or have been funded on an EPSRC research grant); The PhD project is concerned with the challenges of providing secure IoT transactions with blockchain technology considering the constrained nature of IoT devices. You must have either: a PhD at least four years' experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship. the ideas, concepts and approaches proposed and any particularly strong or weak examples within the programme, whether the applicant has provided clear aims and objectives for the technical programme, and how they will monitor their achievements. Your project can be across any topic in the EPSRC portfolio. Elegance of presentation is not, of itself, an assessment criterion for an EPSRC grant. the equipment is essential to the proposed research. The postdoctoral stage is the equivalent of a junior fellowship, offering 3 years of funding. https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/epsrc-fellowships-early-and-established-career, Browse our areas of investment and support, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), our policy on repeatedly unsuccessful submissions, Joint Electronic Submission system (Je-S), EPSRC fellowships framework application guidance, EPSRC fellowship guidance for applicants (PDF, 585KB), EPSRC Fellowship frequently asked questions, information and communication technologies, equipment and other items needed to carry out the project, help applicants identify how they fit the aims and outcomes of their career stage. We recommend you start your application in good time. A proposal that demonstrates excellence can be characterised by terms such as: novel, ambitious, timely, exciting, at the international forefront, adventurous, elegant, or transformative, but it need not demonstrate all of them. As such you are asked to comment on the overall research vision of the fellowship and how it would enable the applicant to achieve their career aspirations. These should be proportionate to the scale and complexity of the activity to be undertaken. In these circumstances, the duration of your fellowship can be extended pro rata. You can apply for up to five years of support for early career or established career awards. Does the proposal specify routine and novel ways to engage end users or partners to help realise impacts? Note that the existence of competing groups elsewhere should not of itself be seen as a reason for downgrading a proposal. This should report your own confidence, or otherwise, in being able to make your assessment rather than your confidence in the success of the application if it were funded. Therefore, you should not use journal impact factor (or any hierarchy of journals), conference rankings and metrics such as the H-index or i10-index when assessing UKRI grants. closed on weekends, bank holidays and other holidays. the suitability and appropriateness of the track record in relation to the career stage applied for. Your project must be within BBSRC's remit. The EPSRC fellowship is a personal award that is expected to support, enable and accelerate the personal and career development of the fellow. Proposals must be at least 50% EPSRCs quantum technology remit and can cover any aspect of quantum technology research. Additional funding of up to 1.6 million from AHRC, a minimum of 1 million from BBSRC and up to 0.4 million from ESRC will be available for research at specified interfaces. a case for support (nine pages, seven on the scientific case and two on the non-technical aspects (meaning, to cover the non-scientific elements of the assessment criteria) of your application. You could consider applying for an open fellowship if you: Additionally, if you want to use this opportunity to design a package of work which meets your wider aspirations, there is an option for you to add a Plus component to your fellowship application. We encourage applicants who have taken a non-standard career path after their first degree. Below are last year's instructions. In some instances, the case for support may include a link to a web site containing information on the research proposed. any equipment requested, or the viability of the arrangements described to access equipment needed for this project, and particularly on any university or third party contribution. We are always open for applications for fellowships. EPSRC Fellowship - NHFP: Starts: 29 June 2018: Ends: 31 December 2021: Value (): 487,020: EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: . We will fund fellowships at 80% full economic cost. EPSRC is part of UK Research and Innovation, a new body which works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish. You are asked to comment on the applicants track record in relation to the proposed research of the fellowship, and the appropriateness of the track record for their career stage and balance of skills of the project team, including academic partners. EPSRC recognises that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major interruptions and disruptions across our communities and is committed to ensuring that individual applicants and their wider team, including partners and networks, are not penalised for any disruption to their career such as breaks and delays, disruptive working patterns and conditions, Applicants should allow sufficient time for your organisations submission process between submitting your proposal to them and the funding opportunity closing date. This scheme aims to increase the impact of EPSRC PhDs in terms of publications, knowledge transfer and outreach, and to encourage high quality candidates to pursue research careers. For more information, read our fellowship application guide. It will be sent electronically to at least three reviewers, including at least one nominated by you. We will fund 80% of the full economic cost of your project. An additional two pages (eleven pages in total) are allowed for Open fellowships where the applicant is choosing the plus component option), a host organisation statement (two pages), project partner letters of support from all project partners included in the Je-S form (no page limit). If you need any further general information about applying for a fellowship, email: researchcareers@epsrc.ukri.org.