Digital Catapult Fellowship Programme

大学对“数字经济”的研究着眼于数字技术可能对社区生活、文化体验、未来社会和经济产生的变革性影响。拟议的奖学金计划将使在这一领域工作的研究人员能够花时间在数字弹射器上，这是一个为加速将最佳数字创意转化为新产品和服务而设立的国家中心。在Catapult内部，Fellows将与技术公司和其他用户群体合作，将他们的研究与用户需求迅速结合起来，以便提供用户可以采用的实际技术和产品。将有两个级别的团契。初级研究员将在他们的学术生涯相对较早的时候，并全职驻扎在弹射器中，在弹射器的现有项目中推进他们的研究兴趣。高级研究员将是在相关研究方面有长期记录的个人。他们将帮助开发新的Catapult项目和活动，以及他们自己的研究，无论是全职还是兼职。该方案每年接受两次申请，每次最多颁发四个研究金。除个别项目外，方案工作人员还将举办一系列活动，使研究人员有机会相互联系并分享经验。还将利用活动向学术界和更广泛的社区宣传该方案、与弹射器合作的好处以及与数字经济相关的研究的广泛影响。每个研究员都有责任为他们的项目制作一个案例研究；这些将是展示远程教育研究影响的广度的重要组成部分，以及当学术界和产业界密切合作时这些影响产生的速度。作为一项计划，数字弹射器研究金方案将支持远程教育主题内的影响产生和用户推广，同时也支持在远程教育研究中活跃的学术行为者之间更好地整合，包括远程教育研究中心、远程教育网络+S和拥有强大远程教育研究组合的研究中心。

University research into the 'Digital Economy' looks at the transformational impact that digital technologies can have on aspects of community life, cultural experiences, future society, and the economy. The Fellowship Programme proposed will enable researchers working in this area to spend time in the Digital Catapult, a national centre set up to accelerate the best digital ideas into new products and services. Within the Catapult, Fellows will work alongside technology companies and other user groups, to rapidly integrate their research with user needs in order to deliver actual technologies and products that can be adopted by users. There will be two levels of Fellowship. Junior Fellows will be relatively early in their academic career, and be based in the Catapult full-time, taking forward their research interests within one of the Catapult's existing projects. Senior Fellows will be individuals with a long track record of relevant research. They will help to develop new Catapult projects and activities alongside their own research, on either a full-time or part-time basis. The Programme will have two calls for applications each year, and will award up to four fellowships each time. Alongside the individual projects, Programme staff will run a range of events designed to give Fellows the chance to network with one another and share experiences. Events will also be used to promote the Programme, the benefits of working with the Catapult, and the broad impacts of Digital Economy-related research, to both the academic and the wider community. Each Fellow will have responsibility for producing a case study of their project; these will be important components in demonstrating the breadth of impacts of DE research, and the speed at which these result when academics and industry work in close collaboration with one another. As a Programme, the Digital Catapult Fellowship Programme will support impact generation and user outreach within the DE Theme, while also supporting better integration across academic actors active in DE research, including DE Research hubs, DE Network+s, and research centres with strong DE research portfolios.