Queen's University Belfast Core Equipment Call 2022

女王大学贝尔法斯特2030年战略将我们的目标定义为成为一所全球性的研究密集型大学，产生国际领先的研究，再加上出色的教学和学习，并专注于本地和全球的社会需求。一个关键环节是让我们的研究人员获得全球认可，符合我们的学术优势和高影响力的研究。中央北方爱尔兰和更广泛的英国的经济发展是在EPS学院进行的研究活动，在此设备赠款将举行。教师计划的一个关键方面是不断致力于加强我们的设施，确定基本研究设备的差距，从而确保我们重塑研究组合和资本投资的要素的适当资源。这项投资还将有助于支持EPSRC对地方议程的承诺，并纠正研究理事会在北方爱尔兰（5，708英镑）与苏格兰（11，402英镑），威尔士（7，955英镑）和英格兰东南部（24，391英镑）相比每位研究人员的低支出。皇后学院通过向EPSRC申请竞争性应用程序来获取设备和计算资源，以补充其在基础设施和设施方面的投资。以前的例子包括：投资180万英镑的“支撑多用户设备”项目（EP/P030246/1），用于支持新的“成像和图案化中心”;投资500万英镑的Kelvin-2（EP/T022175/1），用于建立新的高性能计算设施;以及在北方爱尔兰首台投资110万英镑的固态核磁共振仪器（EP/W 021390/1）。虽然BRCD交易的重点是为互联健康和制造业提供资本投资，但这一请求旨在加强EPS学院其他领域的研究，这些领域具有战略重要性，即微电子，传感器，心理学，土木工程，物理学和材料研究。该设备有可能使工作人员能够促进和支持整个大学的多学科机会。例如，4K数字显微镜将被药剂师，医学研究人员，机械和化学工程师使用;土木工程，地理和考古学的粒度分析仪;心理学家和电子工程师的Xsens运动跟踪系统;药物配方，陶瓷和材料科学研究人员的扫描声学显微镜;物理学家和药剂师的ICCD相机和光谱仪。这种方法直接符合UKRI 2022年至2027年的战略，即“为世界级的研究和创新提供安全的尖端基础设施”。我们的目标是提高我们的研究能力和雄心，以创造和维持一个世界一流的研究环境，其特点是先进的设施，与高质量的培训和支持。这些请求是从一个详细的演习中确定的，优先考虑大学2030年战略研究需求的项目，适合核心设备的要求，以及提供维护和持续运行的能力。如果成功，设备将被安置在由训练有素的技术人员支持的完善和管理的EPS学院实验室。ECR和研究生将始终能够利用这些资源，因为我们认识到他们的重要性。事实上，在这项工作中，选举委员会代表是目标，并领导了三项设备要求（Shakeel、Newton、Larraneta）。这是标准的博士生将被分配到研究小组，因此将有直接访问这些设施。

The Queen's University Belfast strategy 2030 defines our goals to be a global, research-intensive university generating internationally leading research, coupled with outstanding teaching and learning and focused on societal needs, locally and globally. A key strand is to allow our researchers to gain global recognition in line with our academic strengths and high impact research. Central to Northern Ireland and the wider UK's economic development are the research activities undertaken in the EPS Faculty where this equipment grant will be held. A key aspect of the faculty's plan is an ongoing commitment to enhance our facilities, identifying gaps in essential research equipment and thus ensuring appropriate resourcing of the elements of our reshaped research portfolio and capital investment. This investment will also help to support EPSRC's commitment to the Place Agenda and redress the research council lower spend per researcher in Northern Ireland (£5,708) compared to Scotland (£11,402), Wales (£7,955) and the Southeast of England (£24,391). Queen's supplements its own investments in infrastructure and facilities by acquiring equipment and computational resource through competitive applications to EPSRC. Previous examples include: the £1.8M 'Underpinning Multi-User Equipment' project (EP/P030246/1) to support a new 'Imaging and Patterning Centre'; the £5M Kelvin-2 (EP/T022175/1) proposal to establish a new, high performance computing facility and; the first, £1.1M solid-state, nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in Northern Ireland (EP/W021390/1). Whilst the BRCD deal is focused on providing a capital investment in connected health and manufacturing, this request looks to strength research across the other areas of the EPS Faculty's established and strategically important research portfolio, namely microelectronics, sensors, psychology, civil engineering, physics and materials research. The equipment has the potential will allow staff to promote and support multidisciplinary opportunities across the University. For example, the 4K Digital Microscope will be used by pharmacists, medical researchers, mechanical and chemical engineers; the Particle Size Analyser across civil engineering, geography, and archaeology; the Xsens motion tracking system by psychologists and electronic engineers; the Scanning Acoustic Microscope by researchers in drug formulations, ceramics and materials science; the ICCD Camera and Spectrometer by physicists and pharmacists. This approach directly aligns with the UKRI strategy 2022 to 2027 under 'secure cutting-edge infrastructures for world-class research and innovation'. Our aim is to enhance our research capabilities and ambitions to create and sustain a world-class research environment characterised by cutting-edge facilities, linked with high quality training and support. The requests were identified from a detailed exercise with items prioritised on the university's Strategy 2030 research needs, fit to the core equipment call and capability to provide maintenance and sustained operation. If successful, equipment will be accommodated in well-established and managed EPS Faculty laboratories which are supported by well-trained technicians. ECRs and postgraduate students will always be able to avail of these resources as we recognise their importance. Indeed, ECRs were targeted in this exercise and are leading three of the equipment requests (Shakeel, Newton, Larraneta). It is standard that PhD students will be assigned to research groups and will therefore have direct access to these facilities.