Smart labs for ECRs in Biomedical and Civil engineering

邓迪大学的核心使命是“改变生活”，即我们的研究对社会和经济的影响。整个大学研究的基础是跨学科的概念，从而产生影响。四个关键的跨学科主题围绕：(1)理解和改善健康和福祉；(2)改善生活的创意和设计；(3)创新解决未来问题的技术方案；(4)推动社会变革，促进多样性、正义和社会经济繁荣。资本投资的制度战略优先考虑医学、生命科学、工程和环境研究等学科之间的交叉研究。科学与工程学院（SSEN）从这一战略中受益，通过培育和开发创新的技术解决方案，专注于跨学科研究。这使得SSEN与生命科学学院、医学院和艺术与设计学院建立了许多长期合作战略。SSEN包括四个研究集群：(1)工程与物理科学；(2)数学科学；(3)计算;(4)科学与正义。SSEN拥有大量的跟踪记录，根据世界一流的实验室生态系统的原则，为早期职业研究人员（ECRs）在这个电话中描述的卓越建设。我们最近投资在生命科学接口安装物理（生物光子学和生物物理学）智能实验室，以创新和开发新的生物物理仪器。EPSRC计划将是我们正在进行的资本设备投资计划的补充，以形成以工程和物理科学研究集群为中心的ecr智能实验室。当前的SMART实验室议程包括与生物医学和土木工程相关的研究身份的ecr。生物医学工程队列目前享有外部和核心资金数百万美元的投资，并在共享和综合材料工程，表面表征和成像设施内提供支持。基础设施的设计也使ecr参与材料和法医学。土木工程专业的ecr与苏格兰海洋和可再生能源测试中心（SMART）密切合作，该中心位于SSEN，耗资200万英镑，与工业和其他合作伙伴合作，测试和评估在北海恶劣环境中使用的材料。它结合了几个土木工程团队的专业知识，包括混凝土技术和岩土技术，为海洋材料项目提供更高效和更具成本效益的解决方案。在资本设备投资方面所需的额外支助已经量化。这为SMART实验室环境中分配和分配整体拨款的战略和规划过程提供了信息。因此，有一个明确的分配策略，以提供核心的ecr，他们将成为邓迪大学未来的领导者，跨越我们的三个主要研究设施组。

The core mission of the University of Dundee is "Transforming Lives" in terms of the societal and economic impact of our research. Fundamental to the research across the University is the concept of interdisciplinarity leading to impact. The four key interdisciplinary themes are around: (1) Understanding and improving health and wellbeing; (2) Life-enhancing creativity and design; (3) Innovating technological solutions to tomorrow's problems; and (4) Promoting social change to enhance diversity, justice and socio-economic prosperity. The institutional strategy for capital investment prioritises research at interfaces between disciplines such as medicine, life sciences, engineering and environmental studies. The School of Science & Engineering (SSEN) has benefited from this strategy by focusing on interdisciplinary research via nurturing and developing innovating technological solutions. This allowed SSEN to forge a number of long term collaboration strategies with the Schools of Life Sciences, Medicine, and Art & Design. SSEN comprises four Research Clusters: (1) Engineering & Physical Sciences; (2) Mathematical Sciences; (3) Computing; and (4) Science & Justice. SSEN possess a substantial track record in building around excellence in accordance with the principles of the World Class Labs ecosystem for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) described in this call. We have recently invested in installing Physics (biophotonics & biophysics) SMART LABs at the Life Sciences interface to innovate and develop new biophysical instrumentation.The EPSRC initiative will be in addition to our ongoing planned investment in capital equipment for the formation of SMART LABs for ECRs centred around the Research Cluster in Engineering & Physical Sciences. The current SMART LABs Agenda includes ECRs with their research identity associated with Biomedical and Civil Engineering. The cohort in Biomedical engineering currently enjoys externally and core funded multimillion investment and support within the shared and comprehensive materials engineering, surface characterisation and imaging facilities. The infrastructure is designed to also engage ECRs in Materials and Forensic Science. ECRs in Civil engineering are working closely with the Scottish Marine And Renewables Testing (SMART) Centre - a £2m facility based in SSEN works with industry and other partners to test and evaluate materials for use in the harsh environment of the North Sea. It combines the expertise of several civil engineering groups including concrete technology and geotechnical to allow for more efficient and cost effective solutions to marine material projects. The required additional support in terms of investment in capital equipment has been quantified. This informed the strategy and planning process for distribution and allocation of the block grant within the SMART LABs environment. Therefore, there is a clear allocation strategy in place to provide a core of ECRs, who will be the future leaders at Dundee, across our three major research facility groupings.