IPS Fellow

开放大学(OU)多年来一直接受STFC研究委员会的资助。2011年，科学系进行了一次重大重组，合并了两个由科学、技术和创新中心资助的系，即行星和空间科学研究所(PSSRI)和物理和天文学系，成立了新的物理科学系。新部门目前获得了两项STFC滚动式拨款，用于其天文学和行星科学研究小组以及其他赠款。此外，物理科学系在其电子成像中心内拥有约20个标准学生名额和8个STFC案例学生名额。多年来，该部成员通过Beagle-2、惠更斯、Rosetta和XMM为STFC方案作出了重大贡献，目前正在积极开展ExoMars、Gaia和Euclid方案。这些方案所产生的研究成果包含大量的专门知识和知识产权，可以进一步加以利用。我们通过实例证明，该大学已经在从事这样的开发活动，这项关于IPS奖学金的提议是设立一个为期四年的职位，负责调查系内的知识转移活动，我们相信，在这个职位上，开发计划有很大的增长机会，这将对英国、行业和研究基地的可持续性产生重大影响。

The Open University (OU) has been a recipient of STFC research council funding for many years. In 2011 the Faculty of Science went through a major re-structuring which resulted in the merger of two STFC-funded departments; namely the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy creating the new Department of Physical Sciences. The new department is currently a recipient of two STFC Rolling Grants, for its Astronomy and Planetary Science Research Groups plus other grants. In addition, the Department of Physical Sciences holds ~20 standard studentships plus 8 STFC CASE studentships within its Centre for Electronic Imaging. Members of the Department have made significant contributions over the years to STFCs programmes through Beagle-2, the Huygens, Rosetta, XMM, and is currently actively working on the ExoMars, Gaia and Euclid programmes. The resulting research output from these programmes contains significant know-how and IP which can be exploited further. We demonstrate through examples that the University is already engaging in such exploitation activities, and this proposal for an IPS fellowship is to create a four-year position which will investigate Knowledge Transfer activities within the department, where we believe that there is significant opportunity for growth in the exploitation programme which will have a significant impact on the UK, industry and sustainability of the reserach base.