Small items of research equipment at the University of Nottingham

该提案旨在资助小型设备(&lt；GB 10k)，用于EPSRC能源、医疗保健技术、物理科学、工程、数字经济、制造、数学科学等研究主题的ECR。该设备将直接惠及1500多名早期职业研究人员(约1 000名博士后、500名博士后研究人员和青年讲师)目前在诺丁汉大学从事这些主题领域的工作，并支持该大学的能源、生物医学成像、数字世界中的运营和药物发现等主题领域。这些设备还将通过我们与米德兰能源联盟、米德兰物理联盟和米德兰超冷原子研究中心的合作，使米德兰地区的ECR受益，并通过我们的合作博士培训中心，使其他高等院校的ECR受益。将在工程和物理科学部门购买设备，以使尽可能广泛的ECR受益。将购买新设备，以支持新领域的研究，使更多的高级ECR能够开始独立研究，并获得宝贵的研究成果，以支持奖学金和赠款申请。这一设备将使一些ECR能够建立自己的独立研究实验室，并建立自己的研究合作。将购买设备，以升级过时或不再适合用途的现有设施。这些升级将使设备能够根据ECR的特定研究需求进行改进，而成本只有新设备的一小部分。还将购买基本实验室设备，以增加能力，使更多的资源和时间效率更高的研究。

This proposal aims to fund small equipment (<£10k) for the benefit of ECRs across the EPSRC research themes of Energy, Healthcare Technologies, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Digital Economy, Manufacturing, Mathematical Sciences. The equipment will directly benefit over 1500 Early Career Researchers (approx. 1000 PhD students, 500 post-doctoral research staff and young lecturers) currently working within these thematic areas at the University of Nottingham and support the University's thematic areas of Energy, Biomedical Imaging, Operations in a Digital World and Drug Discovery. The equipment will also benefit ECRs within the Midlands region thorough our collaborations with the Midlands Energy Consortium, Midlands Physics Alliance and Midlands Ultra Cold Atoms Research Centre and ECRs at other HEIs through our collaborative Doctoral Training Centres. Equipment will be purchased across the Engineering and Physical Sciences to benefit as broad a range of ECRs as possible. New equipment will be purchased to support research into new areas, enable more senior ECRs to start independent research and gain valuable research results to support fellowship and grant applications. This equipment will enable some ECRs to establish their own independent research laboratories and establish their own research collaborations. Equipment will be purchased to upgrade current facilities which are either outdated or no longer fit for purpose. These upgrades will allow the equipment to be modified for ECR's specific research needs at a fraction of the cost of new equipment. Fundamental laboratory equipment will also be bought to increase capacity to enable more resource and time efficient research.