University of Surrey - EPSRC Capital Award Emphasising Support for Early Career Researchers (ECRs)

萨里大学 - EPSRC 资本奖强调对早期职业研究人员 (ECR) 的支持

• 批准号: EP/S017771/1
• 负责人: David Sampson
• 金额: $ 19.11万
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS017771%2F1
• 关键词: University; Surrey; EPSRC; Capital; Award

Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are vital to the success of any research university, shaping future research programmes and strategy through the novelty of their ideas, through the leading techniques and methods they employ and by helping create a vibrant and dynamic research culture through their participation in the wider activities of their departments, faculties and the University itself. To have the best chance to develop into internationally regarded research leaders, these ECRs need the right support from their Universities. That support includes provision of, or access to, the state-of-art equipment which is often necessary to conduct the highest quality research. Access to World Class Laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment can represent an important distinctive capabilityOf course, having novel ideas and access to equipment are not the only factors that will determine how successful a researcher will be in developing their careers. Increasingly, success comes from being able to work in multidisciplinary teams focused on tackling complex and difficult challenges. Thus, ECRs also need support in developing their networks and encouraging collaborations with other academics and with the user of research in industry, government and the third sector.With this award of £150k from the EPSRC, the University of Surrey intends to ensure that we extend the equipment capabilities available to researchers in general and to ECRs in particular. We are looking for a step-change difference in our capability. To achieve this we will make a maximum of three awards ensuring that resources are not spread too thinly. In addition, we will match the EPSRC funds with a University investment making £300k available in total. The Principal Investigator (PI) for each award will be an ECR. The Head of Department within which the PI is based will provide technical support for the equipment throughout the grant period and at least 6 hours per week for the PI to engage on the project.The University will also award the equipment through a process that will encourage collaboration both within the University and beyond. We will do this first be specifying that awards will only be made to a collaborative team of investigators within which there must be at least one other eligible ECRs beyond the Principal Investigator. We will also insist that between 10% and 30% of the time available on the equipment should be made available to the wider research community beyond the collaborative team. This will not only provide an incentive to develop new networks but will also serve to encourage new research programmes as the community approach our team with research ideas of their own.

早期职业研究人员（ecr）对于任何研究型大学的成功都是至关重要的，通过他们新颖的想法，通过他们采用的领先技术和方法，通过他们参与院系和大学本身更广泛的活动，帮助创造一个充满活力和活力的研究文化，来塑造未来的研究计划和战略。为了有最好的机会发展成为国际公认的研究领导者，这些ecr需要来自其大学的正确支持。这种支持包括提供或使用最先进的设备，这些设备往往是进行最高质量研究所必需的。进入拥有最先进设备的世界一流实验室可以代表一种重要的独特能力。当然，拥有新颖的想法和获得设备并不是决定研究人员职业发展成功与否的唯一因素。成功越来越多地来自于能够在多学科团队中工作，专注于解决复杂和困难的挑战。因此，ecr还需要在发展其网络和鼓励与其他学术界以及与工业、政府和第三部门的研究用户的合作方面得到支持。萨里大学从EPSRC获得了15万英镑的奖金，旨在确保我们将设备能力扩展到一般研究人员，特别是ecr。我们正在寻找我们能力的阶梯式变化。为了实现这一目标，我们将最多颁发三个奖项，以确保资源不会分散得太分散。此外，我们将与EPSRC基金相匹配的大学投资总额为30万英镑。每个奖项的首席研究员（PI）将是一个ECR。PI所在的部门主管将在整个拨款期间为设备提供技术支持，并且PI每周至少有6小时的时间参与项目。大学还将通过鼓励大学内外合作的程序授予设备。我们将首先明确，奖励将只颁发给一个合作研究团队，其中必须至少有一个除首席研究员以外的其他合格的ecr。我们还将坚持将设备上可用时间的10%到30%提供给合作团队以外的更广泛的研究团体。这不仅将提供发展新网络的动力，而且还将有助于鼓励新的研究项目，因为社区会带着他们自己的研究想法接近我们的团队。