Small items of research equipment at the University of Glasgow

格拉斯哥大学建议利用申请的资金创建一个高价值的计划，促进早期职业研究人员（ecr）之间的新合作和设备和专业知识的共享。投资将直接用于购买小型（< 1万英镑）设备，这些设备将进一步促进ECR自己的研究，扩大他们的合作基础，支持不可能发表的工作和/或支持EPSRC资助的学生在EPSRC“成长”或“维护”领域的工作。为了确保该计划也能促进现有设备的共享，还将建立一个网站，列出新的和现有的设备，以及每个ECR的专业知识、兴趣和合作机会的详细描述。该计划将由科学和工程学院研究主任办公室管理，涵盖科学和工程学院以及医学、兽医和生命科学学院的有关部门。我们建议运行三个设备调用周期，第一个周期从2012年11月开始（项目已经确定并成本），第二个周期在2013年1月。格拉斯哥大学将投入超过17万英镑的额外设备资金和相关的工作人员时间，将该计划从3月份的窗口延长到第三个周期。第三个周期将由格拉斯哥大学全额资助，将于2013年4月开放，在各个方面都将以与第一个和第二个周期相同的方式运行。

The University of Glasgow proposes to utilise the requested funds to create a high value scheme fostering new collaborations and the sharing of equipment and expertise between Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The investment will be directed to the purchase of small (<£10K) pieces of equipment that will further ECR's own research, expand their collaboration base, support the publication of work not otherwise possible and/or support the work of EPSRC funded students within an EPSRC 'Growth' or 'Maintain' area. To ensure the scheme will also facilitate the sharing of existing equipment a website will also be established to list new and existing equipment alongside a lay description of each ECR's expertise, interests and collaborative opportunities. The scheme will be run from the office of the Dean of Research of College of Science and Engineering covering both the College of Science and Engineering and appropriate sectors of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences. We propose to run three cycles of the equipment call, with the first starting in November 2012 (items already identified and costed) and the second in January 2013. The University of Glasgow will commit in excess of £170k of additional equipment funding and associated staff time to extend the scheme beyond the March window to run for the third cycle. Cycle three will be fully funded by Glasgow University, will open in April 2013 and in all aspects will run in an identical way to cycles one and two.