Grant Balances 2010 - University of Leeds

跨学科研究将不同科学或技术领域的技能和知识汇集在一起，以解决本身无法解决的问题，这在支撑新技术进步方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。然而，人们普遍认识到，建立新的跨学科合作可能存在重大障碍。一个障碍可能是很难说服资助者，这些技术或技能确实可以在不同学科之间转换。在这种情况下，让员工试验他们的合作想法并产生原理证明结果的激励资金可能是非常有益的。拟议的研究补助金将把利兹大学EPSRC资助的主要研究人员聚集在一起，既跨越EPSRC的职权范围，也在EPSRC和其他研究委员会与其他领域的工作人员之间，以发展新的合作。研究成果旨在证明基本概念，以便从适当的机构（包括但不限于EPSRC）寻求可持续的后续资金。

Cross-disciplinary research, wherein skills and knowledge from different scientific or technological domains is brought together to address problems that are insoluble on their own, plays an increasingly important role in underpinning new technological advances. It has been widely recognized, however, that there can be significant barriers to establishing new cross-disciplinary collaborations. One barrier can be the difficulty in persuading funders that the techniques or skills in question really can be translated between different disciplines. In this context, pump-priming funding that allows workers to trial their collaborative ideas and generate proof-of-principle results can be extremely beneficial. The proposed research grant will bring leading EPSRC-funded researchers at the University of Leeds together both across the EPSRC remit and between EPSRC and other research council with workers from other domains, to develop new collaborations. The output of the research is intended to be the demonstration of the basic concept such that sustainable follow-up funding can then be sought from appropriate bodies, including but not limited to, EPSRC.