EPSRC Capital Award emphasising support for Early Career Researchers

拉夫堡大学坚定不移地致力于维护领先的实验设施，以支持世界级的研究活动，这些活动使我们在2014年REF2014年的研究强度跻身英国前十名。在这份意见书中，我们为职业生涯早期的研究人员寻找最先进的设备，这些设备也将为我们的关键工程和物理科学(EPS)研究能力提供显著的价值支持和阶段性变化。我们现有的实验室设备齐全，支持良好，是我们研究战略不可或缺的一部分，也是我们精神的一个独特方面，在我们的EPSRC投资组合中尤为突出。这包括我们700名EPS博士生的项目，以及我们通过参与九个博士培训中心而促进的合作，以及我们为支持ECR而战略性分配的大量EPSRC博士生培训伙伴关系赠款。我们与广泛的行业合作伙伴合作，涉及从干细胞疗法到每年节省20,000公斤飞机燃料的各种领域。这项投资的资金不会取代机构层面的任何计划投资。这项奖励将用于通过资助早期职业研究人员来促进高质量的研究，这些研究人员可以证明他们正在寻求与工业和学术合作伙伴建立更广泛的、多学科的合作，这些合作将从设备的使用中受益。这些合作将确保研究的新颖性和及时性，并导致：-增强影响力-更高质量的出版物-吸引高素质的博士生和改善研究经验-向广泛的资助者成功申请赠款的数量增加

Loughborough University has a substantial and sustained commitment to maintaining leading experimental facilities in support of the world-class research activities that saw us ranked in the top 10 in England for research intensity in REF2014. In this submission, we seek state of the art equipment for Early Career Researchers which will also add significant value underpin and make a step-change to our key engineering and physical sciences (EPS) research capabilities.Our well-equipped and well-supported existing laboratory provision is integral to our research strategy and a distinctive aspect of our ethos that features particularly prominently across our EPSRC portfolio. This includes the projects of our 700 EPS PhD students and the collaborations fostered through our participation in nine Centres of Doctoral Training in addition to our substantial EPSRC Doctoral Training partnership grant, which is strategically allocated to support ECRs. We work with a diverse range of industry partners, on areas from stem cell therapies with to savings of 20,000kg of fuel per year on aircraft. The funds used from this investment will not replace any planned investments at the institutional level.This award will be used to facilitate high quality research by funding Early Career Researchers that can demonstrate they are seeking to establish broader, multi-disciplinary collaborations with industrial and academic partners, that will benefit from usage of the equipment. These collaborations will ensure that research is novel and timely and leads to: - Enhanced impact - Higher quality publications - Ability to attract high calibre PhD students and improved research experience - Increased volume of successful grant applications to a broad range of funders