Grant Balances 2010 - University of Leeds

跨学科研究将来自不同科学或技术领域的技能和知识结合起来，以解决无法单独解决的问题，在支持新的技术进步方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。然而，人们普遍认识到，在建立新的跨学科合作方面可能存在重大障碍。一个障碍可能是难以说服资助者，让他们相信所涉及的技术或技能确实可以在不同学科之间转换。在这种情况下，允许员工尝试他们的协作想法并产生原理证明结果的泵启动资金可能非常有益。拟议的研究补助金将使领先的EPSRC资助的研究人员在利兹大学一起在EPSRC的职权范围和EPSRC和其他研究理事会与其他领域的工人之间，以发展新的合作。研究的成果旨在展示基本概念，以便随后能够从适当机构，包括但不限于EPSRC寻求可持续的后续资金。

Cross-disciplinary research, wherein skills and knowledge from different scientific or technological domains is brought together to address problems that are insoluble on their own, plays an increasingly important role in underpinning new technological advances. It has been widely recognized, however, that there can be significant barriers to establishing new cross-disciplinary collaborations. One barrier can be the difficulty in persuading funders that the techniques or skills in question really can be translated between different disciplines. In this context, pump-priming funding that allows workers to trial their collaborative ideas and generate proof-of-principle results can be extremely beneficial. The proposed research grant will bring leading EPSRC-funded researchers at the University of Leeds together both across the EPSRC remit and between EPSRC and other research council with workers from other domains, to develop new collaborations. The output of the research is intended to be the demonstration of the basic concept such that sustainable follow-up funding can then be sought from appropriate bodies, including but not limited to, EPSRC.