2010 Grant Balance - University College London

伦敦大学学院已经决定将今年的赠款余额奖与2010年EPSRC额外赞助奖的塑造能力：弥合差距元素结合使用。我们目前的战略重点是跨学科研究，寻求实现伦敦大学学院广泛的卓越研究成果的好处。EPSRC的职权范围和医学研究之间的接口已经很大，相当有效地联网，并且得到了很好的支持，因此我们选择将这笔资金集中在我们认为更需要这种“启动”资金的其他接口上。为今年的弥合差距活动选择的领域是：数字人文、藻类生物技术、可持续城市和风险物理科学。在数字人文领域，我们将建立在我们新成立的数字人文中心形成的合作基础上，并支持以下合作活动：阅读的未来；文本挖掘和可视化；在藻类生物技术方面，我们将在现有跨学科合作的基础上再接再厉，尤其是将一些新兴的基于藻类的生物技术方法与通过生物加工领域的IMRC确定的问题和关系联系起来，朝着全新的方向发展这一研究计划。在可持续城市中，我们将支持通过我们每年为UCL大挑战发起的小额赠款而确定的一系列小型跨学科项目，以及作为可持续城市UCL大挑战和未来ICT FET旗舰活动之间的合作而为期两天的“城市大数据”沙坑(及其产生的项目)。一名研究助理将得到支持，以支持社区建设，特别是围绕可持续的机动性、可持续的资源和建筑以及翻新。在风险物理科学领域，我们将支持3-4个高度冒险的物理科学项目，寻求探索跨越物理科学领域现有部门的新途径。

UCL has decided to use this year's Grant Balance award in conjunction with the Shaping Capability: Bridging the Gaps element of the 2010 EPSRC Additional Sponsorship award. We have a particular strategic emphasis on cross-disciplinary research at the moment, seeking to realise the benefits of UCL's broad spectrum of research excellence. The interface between EPSRC's remit and medical research is already large, fairly effectively networked, and well-supported, hence we have chosen to focus this funding on other interfaces that we feel are more in need of this kind of "start up" funding.The areas selected for this year's Bridging the Gaps activities are: Digital Humanities, Algae Biotechnology, Sustainable Cities, and Venture Physical Sciences.Within Digital Humanities, we will be building on the collaborations formed through our newly established Centre for Digital Humanities and supporting collaborative activities on: The Future of Reading; Text-Mining and Visualisation; and Archaeology, Museums and Imaging.Within Algae Biotechnology, we will build upon the activities of an existing cross-disciplinary collaboration Algae@UCL, and in particular looking to link some of the emerging algae-based approaches to biotechnology to issues and relationships identified through the IMRC in Bioprocessing, evolving that research programme in wholly new directions.Within Sustainable Cities, we will be supporting a range of small cross-disciplinary projects identified through our annual call for UCL Grand Challenges small grants, and a two-day sandpit (and resulting projects) on "Big Data in the City" as a collaboration between the Sustainable Cities UCL Grand Challenge and the FuturICT FET Flagship activity. A research associate will be supported working to support community building, in particular around sustainable mobility, sustainable resources and architecture and retrofitting.Within Venture Physical Sciences, we will be supporting 3-4 highly adventurous Physical Sciences projects, looking to explore new avenues that cross existing divisions within Physical Sciences.