EPSRC Equipment Call 2022 - Cardiff University

卡迪夫大学将利用EPSRC的2022年核心设备奖拨款来升级一款传统设备，使我们能够增强其能力，扩大其用户基础，并延长其使用寿命。这项提议是支持其世界级实验室发展和维护的更广泛战略的一部分。这些实验室设施是大学支持高质量研究和确保研究界长期竞争力的战略的关键。提议将物理性能测量系统(PPMS)升级为EPSRC职权范围内的一系列研究活动，该系统是一种用于高通量测量材料性能的自动化低温和磁体系统。对拟议中的升级进行适度投资，将有助于加快定性过程，扩大其能力，并为更广泛的学术和行业参与打开新的机会。加的夫大学对材料性能有广泛的兴趣，对开发升级后的系统也有浓厚的兴趣。此次升级将允许更多的研究人员受益于将启用的测量范围。升级后的系统将被转移到与物理和天文学院共享的新设施中，该空间目前存放着一台原子力显微镜和拉曼系统。这些系统得到了优秀和高度熟练的技术和学术工作人员的支持，他们进行日常维护、解决问题以及管理准入和培训。将为教职员工和学生提供准入、培训和发展，并确保设备的长期可持续性。将积极鼓励职业早期和研究生研究人员使用系统，使他们能够测量广泛的材料特性。将积极促进内部和外部使用升级后的系统，以鼓励最大限度地使用。将建立一个专门的网站(双语、威尔士语和英语)，内部和外部用户也可以通过纳入加的夫和GW4(加的夫大学、埃克塞特大学、布里斯托尔大学和巴斯大学)在线设备数据库(cardi.ac.uk/Research-Equipment和gw4.ac.uk/Equipment)来检索这些设备。共享设施是一个安全、包容的研究环境，坚持卡迪夫大学关于平等和多样性、健康和安全以及研究完整性的政策。加的夫大学所有PGR和研究人员有义务在经认可的培训模块中接受大学强制性培训，包括健康和安全基础知识以及COSHH；平等、多样性和包容性；无意识偏见；研究完整性；威尔士语意识等。该设施的使用将通过在线预订系统进行管理，需要该系统特殊敏感性、低温和高现场能力的资助研究拨款将被优先考虑，以及将用作未来拨款申请的“泵启动”的概念验证测量。我们将通过以下方式定义成功：i)在前18个月扩大系统的用户基础i)支持早期职业研究人员(包括至少60%的用户的研究生)访问该仪器，以支持新颖的泵-优质实验(至少10%的使用)

Cardiff University would use the EPSRC's Core Equipment Award 2022 allocation to upgrade a legacy piece of equipment that would enable us to enhance its capability, broaden its user base, and extend its lifetime. The proposal is part of a broader strategy to support the development and maintenance of its world class laboratories. Such laboratory facilities are key to the University's strategy to support high quality research and ensure the long-term competitiveness of its research community. The proposal is for an upgrade of a Physical Properties Measurement System (PPMS), an automated low-temperature and magnet system for high-throughput measurement of material properties, core to a range of research activities within the EPSRC remit. Modest investment in the proposed upgrade will help accelerate characterisation processes, expanding its capabilities and open up new opportunities for wider academic and industrial engagement. There is a broad materials properties interest at Cardiff University, and strong interest in exploiting an upgraded system. The upgrade would allow greater numbers of researchers to benefit due to the range of measurements that would be enabled. An upgraded system would be moved to a new shared facility with the School of Physics and Astronomy, a space currently housing an Atomic Force Microscope, and Raman system. The systems are supported by excellent and highly proficient technical and academic staff, who carry out routine maintenance, problem solve issues as well as manage access and training. Access, training and development of staff and students will be provided and ensure the long-term sustainability of the equipment. Early career and postgraduate researchers will be actively encouraged and trained in the use of a system, allowing them to measure a wide range material properties.Access and use of the upgraded system will be actively promoted internally and externally to encourage maximum use,. A dedicated website (bilingual, Welsh and English) will be set up, and the equipment will also be searchable to internal and external users by inclusion into the Cardiff and GW4 (Cardiff, Exeter, Bristol and Bath Universities) online equipment databases (cardiff.ac.uk/research-equipment and gw4.ac.uk/equipment). The shared facility is a safe, inclusive research environment that upholds Cardiff University's policies on equality and diversity, health and safety, and research integrity. All Cardiff University PGR and research staff are obliged to undertake mandatory University training in accredited training modules including fundamentals of health and safety and COSHH; equality, diversity, and inclusivity; unconscious bias; research integrity; Welsh language awareness etc. Access to the facility will be managed via an online booking system and priority access will be given to funded research grants requiring the exceptional sensitivity, low temperature and high field capabilities of the system, as well as to proof-of-concept measurements that would be used as 'pump-priming' for future grant applications.We will define success by:i) Expanding the user base of the system in the first 18 monthsii) Supporting access to the instrument to early career researchers (including postgraduate students of at least 60% of the usersiii) Supporting novel pump-prime experiments (at least 10% of usage)