Eligibility: This funding stream is intended to improve the exploitation of EPSRC research outcomes through the transfer of people between universities and 'user organisations', which may be government departments, NHS, Charities and industry. However, unless approved by EPSRC, the secondment must be hosted in the UK. The funding can be used to support both outward secondments and inward secondments, with different eligibility conditions applying in each case. The attachment below gives further information.
Deadline: 15th March 2010
Guidelines: please contact @email in the first instance
BBSRC Responsive Research Grants
Eligibility: Applications for funding must be within any of the following remits; animal systems, health and wellbeing; plants, microbes, food and sustainability; technological and methodological development; molecules, cells and industrial biotechnology.
Deadline: 24th March 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/apply/deadlines.as
EPSRC UK-China Research Projects in Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies
Eligibility: Aimed at encouraging new and innovative UK-China collaborative projects focusing on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. Funds of up to £2 million from the Energy Programme/EPSRC and matching equivalent resources from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) are available to support high quality projects in this call, projects should be up to three years in duration.
Deadline: 25th March 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/Pages/carboncapture.aspx
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences: Visitor Programme
Eligibility: The Institute invites proposals for research programmes in any branch of mathematics or the mathematical sciences. The Scientific Steering Committee usually meets twice each year to consider proposals for programmes (of 4-week, 4-month or 6-month duration) to run two or three years later.
Deadline: 10th July 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.newton.ac.uk/callprop.html
London Mathematical Society: Conference Grants
Eligibility: Grants are made to the organisers of conferences to be held in the United Kingdom. Any mathematician based in the UK is eligible to apply for a grant, but if the applicant is not a member of the Society then the application must be countersigned by a member who is prepared to support the application. Applications should be made by one of the organisers of the conference. Programme Committee tends to give priority to the support of meetings where an LMS grant can be expected to make a significant contribution to the viability and success of the meeting. The Society expects that the meetings which it supports will be open to all, and will only support a closed meeting if an exceptional case is made. Support of larger meetings of high quality is not ruled out, but for such meetings an LMS grant will normally cover only a modest part of the total cost.
Deadline: 24th April 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/grants/scheme1.html
London Mathematical Society: Connectivity Grants
Eligibility: Grants are made towards the cost of exploring potential new collaborations between mathematicians and non-mathematicians on new applications of mathematics. Any mathematician working in the UK is eligible to apply for a grant, but if none of the applicants is a member of the Society then the application must be countersigned by an LMS member who is prepared to support the application. The use of the grants is not restricted but might include the costs of a small-scale meeting to identify problems or travel costs to bring in external experts. The intention is to help the applicants do the preparatory work prior to a larger scale application to EPSRC.
Deadline: 10th May 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/grants/scheme6.html
London Mathematical Society: Collaborative Small Grants
Eligibility: Funding which is intended to provide a small grant to a mathematician within the UK to help support a visit for collaborative research. The visit may be made either by the grantee to another institution within the UK or abroad, or by a named mathematician from within the UK or abroad to the home base of the grantee. The time available for joint research arising from the grant is expected to be at least several working days. Any mathematician based in the UK is eligible to apply for a grant, but if the applicant is not a member of the Society then the application must be countersigned by a member who is prepared to support the application. Applicants should bear in mind that the purpose of the scheme is to support specific projects with named collaborators and not, for example, simply to contribute to the costs of a sabbatical visit. The Committee will support only mathematical activities or the mathematical component of wider activities, and here the word mathematical excludes mathematics education.
Deadline: 24th April 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/grants/scheme4.html
John Fell Fund: Trinity Term 2010
Eligibility: The fund does not provide support for studentships. To be eligible for start-up support as an 'early career researcher', applicants must be both within the first 5 years in post as an independent researcher at Oxford and in the early stages of their research career. More experienced researchers who are new in post can still apply to the Fund for support, but will need to do so under other categories e.g. for specific pump-priming support, rather than general start up. Departments and potential applicant are advised to read the new FAQ section on the Fell Fund website: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/pra/fundinginitiatives/faqsdec09.shtml
Applications are assessed by a generalist panel of academics; applicants should therefore ensure that their application is written with a non-specialist audience in mind. Furthermore, following a change in policy the Fell Fund is now allocating less money in each Main Awards found than in previous years. Applicants are asked to bear in mind the reduced level of funding available when putting forward proposals.
Deadline: 31st March 2010
London Mathematical Society: International Congress of Mathematics Grants
Eligibility: To be used for making grants to support the attendance of UK-based mathematicians at the ICM in Hyderabad from 19-27th August 2010 (http://www.icm2010.org.in). The grants are not to be used for support at satellite meetings. The Society would particularly like to support those in the early stage of their career, including postdoctoral researchers but not usually PhD students. You do not need to be a member of the LMS to apply. Applicants must have been unsuccessful in applying for a Royal Society International Travel Grant (the February 2010 round), based in the UK and involved in mathematics at postdoctoral level and above.
Deadline: 9th April 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/
Royal Society: Research Grants
Eligibility: The Research Grants scheme provides 'seed corn' funding for new projects of timeliness and promise initiated by research scientists at an early stage of their career (within the first 5 years of the start date of their first permanent academic position). The objective of the scheme is to increase the availability of specialised equipment and essential consumable materials, and to support essential field research. The scheme also provides support for research in the history of science or to assist with publication of scholarly works in the history of science. Applicants must be resident in the UK, they should have postdoctoral level or
equivalent status at the time of the application and have a permanent or
limited-tenure position in an eligible organisation. An applicant who is a post
doctorate paid by a grant for which someone else is the principal investigator
is not eligible. Applicants must play a major part and take a leading role in
the project and not make its fulfilment more than marginally dependent on the
services of postgraduate/doctoral students.
Deadline: 9th April 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://royalsociety.org/Research-Grants/
This year the British Topology Meeting will take place in Merton College, Oxford, from Monday 6th to Wednesday 8th of September 2010. We hope that the meeting will be an opportunity to reinforce the strengths of the community of British topology and we aim to represent many of the facets of current topology. For more information please see the BTM webpage.
Nomura International plc has recently renewed its sponsorship with an uplifted funding for the Nomura Centre for Mathematical Finance (NCMF) at the Mathematical Institute, for another five years, starting from April 2010. Xunyu Zhou, Nomura Professor of Mathematical Finance and the Director of NCMF, says, We are very pleased with the continuing partnership between Oxford and Nomura, which has become exemplary for academic-industry collaborations. It is also a great vote of confidence from Nomura in the rapidly expanding Mathematical Finance group in Oxford. The new funding will support among others the Nomura Chair, 2 Nomura Research Fellows, the annual Nomura Lecture, the weekly Nomura Seminar series, and academic visitors to the Centre.
EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship Competition 2010
Eligibility: Funding for at least 40 3.5-year PhD studentships for businesses to take the lead in arranging projects with an academic partner of their choice. This is a limited competition and
the EPSRC will only accept proposals from companies wishing to establish a new collaboration.
Deadline: 17th March 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/IndustrialCaseCall2010.htm
EPSRC Vacation Bursaries
Eligibility: Undergraduate student applicants must be registered for a first degree at Oxford in a subject that falls within the remit of EPSRC and must be in the middle years of their degree. The vacation bursary cannot be used as a bridge between undergraduate degree and PhD or other work, therefore students in their final year are not eligible. Students should be on track to receive at least a 2:1 classification.
Duration: Support provided for 10 weeks during the 2010 summer vacation
Deadline: 12th February 2010
Application procedure: Please contact Research Facilitation for further information. Your completed application must be received by 12pm on the 12th February 2010.
Philip Leverhulme Prize
Eligibility: Awarded to outstanding scholars or practitioners who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise. Prizes are worth £70,000.
Duration: 2 - 3 years
Deadline: 26th April 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants_awards/grants/philip_leverhulme_prizes/
Smith Institute Industrial Mathematics Internships
Eligibility: Companies and university research groups who wish to develop strong working relationships by engaging a dedicated postgraduate researcher to work on a specific project. Interns will receive £1,500 per month for the duration of the project.
Duration: 3 - 6 months
No deadline date
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.smithinst.ac.uk/Mechanisms/Internships
Royal Society Mullard Award
Eligibility: Recognition of researchers with an outstanding record in any area of natural science, engineering or technology. The award includes a prize worth £2,000 and a travel or conference grant worth up to £1,500.
Deadline: 11th March 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://royalsociety.org/Mullard-Award/
AXA Postdoctoral Fellowships
Eligibility: Applicants may be either researchers having been awarded a doctorate - either recently or some years ago, or students close to submitting or having just submitted their thesis. (Their application will be examined and a grant given on condition that their doctorate is awarded and they commence their postdoc within 12 months). The proposed research must fall within the scope of one of the themes for 2010 set by the AXA Scientific Board, viz.
Life risks: Aging and long term care/Addictions and risky behaviours/Emerging biomedical risks
Societal Risks: Geopolitical risks/Macro-economic, financial, and societal risks
Environmental risks:Natural catastrophes/Risks linked to climate change
Prospective applicants should carefully read AXA's Instructions, including on eligibility, the selection criteria and AXA's selection process.
Deadline: 26th March 2010
Application procedure and sponsor guidelines: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rso/oxonly/applying/axa.shtml#doc
BBSRC Longer and Larger Responsive Research Grants
Eligibility: Funding is available to support research projects requiring longer timescales, extensive resources, or multidisciplinary approaches. Applications must be valued at a full economic cost of £2million and above for a duration of up to five years.
Deadline: 20th February 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/grants/lola/lola-index.aspx
Royal Society Industry Fellowship Scheme
Eligibility: The scheme aims to enhance knowledge transfer in science and technology between those in industry and those in academia. Fellowships provide a salary as well as research expenses up to £2,000 per annum.
Duration: Up to two years
Deadline: 3rd March 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://royalsociety.org/Industry-Fellowships/
Royal Society International Joint Projects
Eligibility: These awards are designed to enable international collaboration by providing mobility grants for researchers and members of their research teams to cover travel, subsistence and research. The Project Leaders must be from academia, of at least postdoctoral status or equivalent and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract in an eligible organisation which, if it is the latter, continues at least for the duration of the project. Collaborations should be based on a single project including two teams or individuals: one based in the UK and the other based outside the UK. A relationship between both parties should already be established prior to making an application and the collaboration should involve bilateral visits between the UK and the country with which the overseas collaborator is based.
Duration: 2 years
Deadline: 25th February 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://rsbl.royalsociety.org/International-Joint-Projects/
The 2010 JPBM Communications Award is made to Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
The JPBM (Joint Policy Board for Mathematics) is an umbrella organization for four major American mathematical societies: the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The JPBM Communications Award was established in 1988 to recognize journalists, mathematicians, and others who, on a sustained basis, bring mathematical ideas and information to non-mathematical audiences. The award recognizes a significant accumulated contribution to the public understanding of mathematics.
For the past fifteen years Professor du Sautoy has complemented his love of mathematical discovery with a passion for communicating mathematics to a broad public. He has reached hundreds of thousands through his books, television shows, and hundreds of articles and appearances in newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. His 2003 book on the Riemann Hypothesis, entitled "The Music of the Primes", is a best-seller which has been translated into 10 languages. In his 2008 book "Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature", du Sautoy guides the reader through groups and symmetry, from Babylonia to moonshine theory, while at the same time giving an engaging glimpse into mathematicians' minds. His four part television, the Story of Maths, presents a fascinating look at the development of mathematics from the design of the pyramids in Egypt to Perelman's proof of Poincaré's Conjecture.
Whether it is talking about Beckham's choice of number on a sports radio program, explaining the work of the Abel prize winner on Norwegian television, writing a weekly math column for the London Times, hosting a television game show based on math puzzles, or delivering the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Marcus du Sautoy invariably seizes opportunities to make mathematics more accessible and more appealing.
Eligibility: Undergraduates, Postdoctoral Research Assistants and University Lecturers (early career) registered at a UK Institution. Bursaries will not be awarded for projects that are part of degree work or expeditions, or that take place overseas for more than 50% of the project time.
Duration: support provided for 6 - 8 weeks.
Deadline: 21st January 2010
Sponsor guidelines and application form: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/go/grants/nsbur/page_400.html
This award enables scientists to develop research ideas to a stage where commercial opportunities (eg licensing, seed or equity funds) can be secured.
Duration: up to 12 months with no limit on the funding request amount.
Deadline: 15th January 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/schemes/followonfund.asp
EPSRC Climate Geoengineering Sandpit - call for participants
The aim of this call is to invite participants for an interdisciplinary sandpit focused on the development of geoengineering technologies. It is expected that up to £3.5million will be made available to fund research projects arising from this sandpit.
Deadline: 11th January 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/ClimateGeoengineeringSandpit.htm
This meeting is held in July and usually lasts 10 days with up to around 70 participants from different branches of mathematics. Preliminary proposals are made approximately two years in advance of the meeting. Prospective organisers should read the guidance notes (see weblink below). Each symposium is funded by a substantial EPSRC research grant.
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/rmc/index.html
LMS Research Workshops
These can be research workshops held anywhere in the UK and are an opportunity for a small group of active researchers to work together for a concentrated period, on a specialised topic. There is no prescribed format for the workshop but it is expected that the number of participants will be no more than 40 and could be as low as 10, meeting for a period of one week or more.
Applicants are advised to contact Professor Nick Manton (@email) informally about their proposed programme and timescale before making an application.
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/rmc/index.html
EPSRC-LMS Short Instructional Courses
The principal aim of the programme is to provide training for postgraduate students in core areas of mathematics. It is expected that the course will be accessible to first year research students not least to accommodate students from related areas. Prospective organisers should refer to the sponsor guidelines (see weblink below) and contact the Short Course Facilitator, Dr Riaz Ahmad (@email) in the first instance.
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/rmc/index.html
Royal Society of Edinburgh International Open Exchange Programme
This programme supports researchers wishing to further collaboration with research groups in other countries not covered by bilateral agreements. The grants are for visits of one to four weeks' duration. The society will provide funding to cover travel, visa, subsistence and accommodation costs.
Award maximum not specified.
Deadlines in 2010: 15th January; 7th April; June (date tbc) and 10th October
Sponsor guidelines: http://www.rse.org.uk/international/exchanges/index.htm#eligibility
EPSRC-KTN CASE Awards in Industrial Mathematics
These awards support postgraduate researchers working on new industrial-academic collaborations in mathematics. In general the funders are looking for projects that combine a significant mathematical research challenge with the prospect of commercial impact.
Deadline: 1st February 2010
Sponsor guidelines: http://maths.globalwatchonline.com/epicentric_portal/site/ims/mechanisms/case/?mode=0
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