Small items of research equipment at the University of Glasgow

格拉斯哥大学提议利用所要求的资金创建一个高价值计划，促进新的合作以及早期职业研究人员(ECR)之间的设备和专业知识共享。这笔投资将用于购买小型(&lt；GB 10K)设备，这些设备将促进ECR自己的研究，扩大他们的合作基础，支持发表其他方式不可能完成的工作，和/或支持EPSRC资助的学生在EPSRC“增长”或“维护”领域内的工作。为了确保该计划还将促进现有设备的共享，还将建立一个网站，列出新的和现有的设备，并提供每个ECR的专业知识、兴趣和合作机会的一般描述。该计划将由理工学院研究学院院长办公室负责，涵盖理工学院和医学、兽医及生命科学学院的相关部门。我们提议进行三个周期的设备召回，第一个周期从2012年11月开始(已确定和计算成本的物品)，第二个周期在2013年1月开始。格拉斯哥大学将承诺超过170000 GB的额外设备资金和相关工作人员的时间，以将该计划延长到3月份的窗口之后，以运行第三个周期。第三周期将由格拉斯哥大学全额资助，将于2013年4月开放，在所有方面都将以与第一周期和第二周期相同的方式运行。

The University of Glasgow proposes to utilise the requested funds to create a high value scheme fostering new collaborations and the sharing of equipment and expertise between Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The investment will be directed to the purchase of small (<£10K) pieces of equipment that will further ECR's own research, expand their collaboration base, support the publication of work not otherwise possible and/or support the work of EPSRC funded students within an EPSRC 'Growth' or 'Maintain' area. To ensure the scheme will also facilitate the sharing of existing equipment a website will also be established to list new and existing equipment alongside a lay description of each ECR's expertise, interests and collaborative opportunities. The scheme will be run from the office of the Dean of Research of College of Science and Engineering covering both the College of Science and Engineering and appropriate sectors of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences. We propose to run three cycles of the equipment call, with the first starting in November 2012 (items already identified and costed) and the second in January 2013. The University of Glasgow will commit in excess of £170k of additional equipment funding and associated staff time to extend the scheme beyond the March window to run for the third cycle. Cycle three will be fully funded by Glasgow University, will open in April 2013 and in all aspects will run in an identical way to cycles one and two.