Small Items of Research Equipment at Newcastle University: Developing the Research Base in Healthcare Technologies, Sustainability and Digital Economy

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For the UK to remain at the forefront of research excellence, it is essential that it has a well-funded and state-of-the-art research equipment pool that our researchers can use in their investigations. This award will enable us to purchase a suite of small items of research equipment at Newcastle University, in three research Themes that are of considerable importance to society: Healthcare Technologies; Sustainability; and the Digital Economy (HT-S-DE). Our particular aim is to use this research equipment to support those in the early stages of their research careers. Thus, the items of equipment included in this proposal have been requested by our early career researchers (ECRs) to enhance their research capabilities in the HT-S-DE research themes. The equipment will enable them to carry out their research more effectively and efficiently and will also allow them to expand their interests to new research areas. It will also give them the opportunity to work more closely together with one another and with other researchers in the UK and overseas. We believe that it is important to maximise the use and therefore the benefits of this equipment. We will therefore manage it in a coordinated way. Responsibility for this management will lie with an ECR Development Steering Group consisting of our most promising ECRs, guided by a small team of very experienced and successful senior academic staff. In this way we will maximise the benefits of this portfolio of equipment and at the same time give our ECR team valuable research management experience, an important career development opportunity.