The ARCHER Leadership call is a call for applications for direct access to the UK's national supercomputing facility ARCHER for computationally intensive individual projects (>100,000 kAU or 6666667 core-hours on ARCHER) for a maximum of 24 months, from academic and non-academic research groups.
The Global Food Security (GFS) programme is hosting a community building event in light of the call launch for applications to the ‘Resilience of the UK food system in a Global Context’ programme. This programme has been co-designed by BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, Defra and FSA in partnership with wider stakeholders to address the major food security challenge.
The Valuing Nature Programme funding call on Managing the Environment to Improve Human Health and Wellbeing will be open towards the end of June 2015 – see pre-announcement here.
NERC invites existing researchers to apply for internships of up to six months, based in business, policy and civil society organisations. The intern will usually spend between 80% and 100% of their time embedded in the partner organisation and applicants can be at any career stage. PhD students must be in their second year and working within the NERC remit. The internship should be completed by 30 April 2016. Earliest start date is 1 November 2015.
NERC, BBSRC and ESRC are hosting a workshop to launch the 2015 call for applications to the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation Club (SARIC).
NERC has launched three opportunities for policy placements:
NERC Welsh Government high level policy placement
NERC are working with Arup through our strategic partnership to co-fund proposals through Arup’s annual Global Research Challenge around future cities, circular economy and evidence-based decision making in urban environments.
The call focuses on four areas:
NERC studentships can be delivered in collaboration with non-academic partners from the private, public and third/civil sectors; where studentships are delivered in collaboration they are referred to as 'CASE studentships'. CASE studentships provide the PhD students with enhanced training opportunities by ensuring they spend between three and eighteen months in total with their CASE partner in a workplace outside the academic environment.
This call is now open. The closing date is 16:00 Wednesday 8 July 2015.
As part of the Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Innovation Programme, NERC is launching an innovation call in this area by inviting expressions of interest (EoI) for short-term feasibility studies and longer-term translational projects. Successful applicants at EoI stage will be asked to submit a full proposal.
NERC has a budget of up to £1m to fund proposals on the following themes:
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), are planning a major new investment as part of the Valuing Nature Programme.
The new call will provide an opportunity for natural and social scientists, and arts and humanities researchers to form substantial interdisciplinary research collaborations which aim to increase understanding of the role biodiversity and ecosystem processes play in human health and wellbeing. The focus of the call will on the themes of:
The Water Security Knowledge Exchange Portal supports the objectives of the UK Water Partnership - a collaboration between the water industry, policy and research communities. It provides guidance and co-ordination for water research and innovation in the UK.
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