Capital Award emphasising support for Early Career Researchers

埃克塞特的研究和影响力战略的重点是培养世界一流的环境，并继续提高我们的研究质量和影响力。我们将通过发展我们的学术界，并投资于新的举措，为研究人员创造机会，在全球研究领域脱颖而出，实现这一目标。我们在研究环境中的投资是针对我们特定的员工配置文件量身定制的，其中有一个重要的早期职业研究人员（ECR）队列，整体早期职业人口占我们总研究社区的30%以上。在埃克塞特投资EPSRC ECR资本奖将与这一战略方针保持一致，为我们的ECR社区建立一个独特的机制，以获得资本设备资金。埃克塞特的资本奖将专门支持ECR提供新颖的研究和建立独立的研究事业。大学致力于为我们所有资助的活动实施适当和协调的治理和监督结构。该提案旨在与我们现有的组织实践协调一致，以提供清晰度和效率。我们将利用基于呼叫的方法，公布和透明的评估标准，以确保我们能够实现这一举措的目标和目的，并确保我们能够支持那些表现出最高质量和开发新的研究方向的能力的举措。我们重视我们的ECR的多样性，并致力于提供一个公平，公正和相互支持的环境。我们有一个专门的平等和多样性团队，确保整个大学的平等和多样性的综合方法，该团队的成员将参与该计划的决策过程。我们将在EPSRC资本设备基金的整个申请过程中监控平等性和多样性。该过程将由埃克塞特大学EPSRC战略小组监督，该小组包括来自整个机构的工程和物理科学研究社区的成员。他们将得到研究服务的全力支持。通过我们对奖项的管理，埃克塞特将支持大约五个EPSRC资本设备奖，金额为30- 35 k英镑，用于高质量，新颖的ECR主导的研究设备。为了支持和鼓励跨学科的工作，我们设想，联合奖励，高达£ 60 K，也可以资助ECR团队一起申请。在授予EPSRC ECR资本奖在埃克塞特，（见下文计划的过程）我们将只选择高质量的研究，或那些申请人证明在一个新的领域的研究雄心勃勃的潜力，在EPSRC的职权范围内。预计所有用户都将展示所购买的设备将如何用于EPSRC范围内的研究，无论是来自EPSRC现有的资助项目，还是向EPSRC申请资助。

The University of Exeter's Research and Impact Strategy focuses on cultivating a world-class environment and continuing to increase the quality and impact of our research. We will achieve this by growing our academic community, and investing in new initiatives to create opportunities for researchers to excel in the global research field. Our investments in our research environment are tailored for our particular staff profile, which has a significiant early career researcher (ECR) cohort, with an overall earlier career population of over thirty percent of our total research community. The investment of an EPSRC ECRs Capital Award at Exeter will align with this strategic approach, establishing a distinctive, unique mechanism for our ECR community to obtain capital equipment funding. The Capital Award at Exeter will specifically support ECRs in the delivery of novel research and the establishment of independent research careers. The University is committed to the implementation of appropriate and co-ordinated governance and monitoring structures for all our funded activity. This proposal has been designed to work in harmony with our existing organisational practices, to provide clarity and efficiency. We will utilise a call-based approach, with published and transparent criteria for assessment, to ensure that we are able to fulfil the aims and objectives of this initiative and to ensure that we are able to support initiatives that demonstrate the highest quality and the capability to develop novel research directions. We value the diversity of our ECRs and are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive environment. We have a dedicated Equality and Diversity team that ensures a University-wide integrated approach to equality and diversity, and a member of that team will be involved in the decision-making process for the scheme. We will monitor equality and diversity throughout our application process for EPSRC Capital Equipment Funds.The process will be overseen by the University of Exeter EPSRC Strategy Group, which includes members of the engineering and physical sciences research community from across the institution. They will be fully supported by Research Services.Through our management of an award, Exeter will support approximately five EPSRC Capital Equipment Awards of £30-35k for high-quality, novel ECR-led research equipment. To support and encourage interdisciplinary working, we envisage that combined awards, up to £60K, may also be funded where teams of ECRs come together to apply.In awarding EPSRC ECR Capital Awards at Exeter, (see below planned process) we will select only high-quality research, or those applicants demonstrating the ambitious potential for research in a new area, within the remit of the EPSRC. All users will be expected to show how the equipment purchased will be used for research within the scope of the EPSRC either from existing EPSRC funded projects or to work towards applications to the EPSRC for funding.