Small Items of Research Equipment at Newcastle University: Developing the Research Base in Healthcare Technologies, Sustainability and Digital Economy

为了使英国保持在卓越研究的前沿，它必须拥有一个资金充足和最先进的研究设备池，我们的研究人员可以在他们的研究中使用。该奖项将使我们能够在纽卡斯尔大学购买一套小型研究设备，用于三个对社会相当重要的研究主题：医疗保健技术；可持续性;数字经济（HT-S-DE）。我们的特别目标是使用这些研究设备来支持那些在他们的研究生涯的早期阶段。因此，我们的早期职业研究人员（ecr）要求本提案中包括的设备项目，以提高他们在HT-S-DE研究主题方面的研究能力。这些设备将使他们能够更有效和高效地进行研究，并使他们能够将兴趣扩展到新的研究领域。这也将使他们有机会更密切地相互合作，并与英国和海外的其他研究人员合作。我们认为最大限度地利用这种设备是很重要的。因此，我们将以协调的方式进行管理。管理工作将由ECR发展指导小组负责，该小组由我们最有前途的ECR组成，由经验丰富且成功的高级学术人员组成。通过这种方式，我们将最大限度地发挥设备组合的优势，同时为我们的ECR团队提供宝贵的研究管理经验，这是一个重要的职业发展机会。

For the UK to remain at the forefront of research excellence, it is essential that it has a well-funded and state-of-the-art research equipment pool that our researchers can use in their investigations. This award will enable us to purchase a suite of small items of research equipment at Newcastle University, in three research Themes that are of considerable importance to society: Healthcare Technologies; Sustainability; and the Digital Economy (HT-S-DE). Our particular aim is to use this research equipment to support those in the early stages of their research careers. Thus, the items of equipment included in this proposal have been requested by our early career researchers (ECRs) to enhance their research capabilities in the HT-S-DE research themes. The equipment will enable them to carry out their research more effectively and efficiently and will also allow them to expand their interests to new research areas. It will also give them the opportunity to work more closely together with one another and with other researchers in the UK and overseas. We believe that it is important to maximise the use and therefore the benefits of this equipment. We will therefore manage it in a coordinated way. Responsibility for this management will lie with an ECR Development Steering Group consisting of our most promising ECRs, guided by a small team of very experienced and successful senior academic staff. In this way we will maximise the benefits of this portfolio of equipment and at the same time give our ECR team valuable research management experience, an important career development opportunity.