Small items of research equipment at the University of Leeds

该方案的目标是扩大和升级利兹大学的小型设备基地，以帮助支持工程和物理科学早期职业研究人员(ECR)。这种投资可以为研究团队增加新的能力和能力，特别是帮助ECR建立自己的独立研究活动。我们的愿景将通过两种方式实现：第一，通过向个别ECR及其研究小组提供小型专用设备，补充现有的大学基础设施；第二，通过改善和更新ECR经常访问的共享大学设施中的设备，支持购买独立部件和加强现有设备的运行。该计划侧重于一些具有国家重要性的研究领域，利兹拥有相当数量的学术人员、资金和基础设施，这与EPSRC的塑造能力练习相一致，其研究的质量和独特性在国际上显然处于领先地位。这将确保在这里进行的投资支持卓越的科学和工程，并与对大学具有战略意义的长期研究计划保持一致，并获得大学持续的投资。该方案将由三名资深学术人员领导，每个人都有长期的记录，并在严格按照时间表组织和交付大型研究方案方面具有学术领导能力，以及大学的研究设施和基础设施经理。负责研究和创新的副校长的监督将确保总体上与大学对其设备基础可持续性的愿景保持一致。

The goal of this programme is to expand and upgrade the small equipment base at the University of Leeds to help support engineering and physical science early career researchers (ECRs). Such investment can add new capacity and capability to research teams, particularly helping ECRs establish their own independent research activities. Our vision will be achieved in two ways: first, through provision of small items of dedicated equipment to individual ECRs and their research groups that will complement existing University infrastructure, and; second, by improving and refreshing equipment in shared university facilities that are accessed heavily by ECRs, by supporting purchase of stand-alone components and enhancements that will expand operation of existing apparatus. This programme has been focussed on a selection of research areas of national importance where Leeds has a critical mass of academic staff, funding and infrastructure, which align with the EPSRC shaping capability exercise, and is demonstrably internationally leading for the quality and distinctiveness of its research. This will ensure that the investment made here underpins scientific and engineering excellence, and aligns with long-term research programmes that are both strategic to the university, and receive on-going university investment. This programme will be led by three senior academic staff each with long-standing track records and academic leadership in the organization and delivery of large research programmes to strict timescales, together with the university's Research Facilities and Infrastructure Manager. Oversight by the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation will ensure overall alignment with the University's vision for sustainability of its equipment base.