Queen's University EPSRC Early Career Equipment Block Grant Investment

背景：女王非常重视其早期的职业研究人员(ECR)。我们投资了一项支持计划，以吸引最优秀的人才，并在他们的整个职业生涯中为他们提供支持，首先是提供启动资金，用于购买设备、旅行和建立网络，并在英国和海外发展自己的合作关系。在最大化产出和提供职业发展途径方面，指导至关重要。皇后研究和企业提供支持，以驾驭复杂的资金领域，并协助开发应用程序。自2009年以来，女王奖以约36个奖项(350万英镑)位居英国第一。支撑我们成功的是对主力设备和高端设备的持续投资，如果没有这些投资，我们成为英国和世界高影响力研究领先者的雄心将无法实现。作为女王的“2020愿景”战略的一部分，我们已经实施了一项面向未来的战略增长计划，在我们的建筑环境上投资了约3.5亿GB，并计划在未来五年再投资3.5亿GB。同时，我们已经进入了一个新的研究战略投资阶段，从战略上瞄准最重要和最广泛使用的研究设备。女王学院设有“先锋研究计划”(PRPS)研究中心，代表跨学科实体处理(I)长期能源安全、(Ii)材料开发和医学工程应用、(Iii)癌症放射治疗和(Iv)自主制造。为了补充这一点，我们的全球研究所(GRI)ECIT的使命是应对收集、存储和保护目前产生的数字信息社会洪流的挑战。我们的ECR拥有一个或多个PRPS或GRI的成员资格，通过这些成员，他们与同行研究人员一起拓宽他们的视野，通过将他们带出他们的“竖井”并迎头面对产业战略挑战来把握不断变化的研究场景。我们的目标和目标：我们的设备基础的持续增长和发展对于实现我们的雄心至关重要，我们的雄心是通过(I)提高我们实现4*产出的能力，(Ii)提高我们实现4*成果的能力，(Ii)促进研究拨款的竞争性投标，包括新研究员奖(Iii)吸引来自英国和海外的最优秀的研究人员。这将有助于使英国成为世界上最适合进行研究、发现和创新的地方，并进一步展示我们在全球舞台上的存在。高质量的设备将专门支持ECR生成例如初始研究数据，使他们处于竞争地位，赢得他们的新研究员奖。这第一步将启动研究成果的遗产，并提供后续资金，例如，研究金作为加速他们职业生涯的机制。为了与我们参与全球舞台的雄心相一致，我们的ECR将获得支持，以申请和赢得国际研究奖项(美国-爱尔兰、GCRF、牛顿和EPSRC-NSF/SFI主导协议)。潜在的应用和好处：ECR将得到其学术导师和女王研究和企业理事会、商业联盟、研究开发和商业化团队的支持。这些团队将促进与业界建立联系，以加快速度并最大限度地发挥影响。皇后区与泰利斯、华为、庞巴迪、希捷、京瓷[AVX有限公司]和FP McCann等行业建立了战略性的国际和英国合作伙伴关系。我们的ECR在优化系统、故障分析、未来制造、先进复合材料、化工生产、清洁能源、机器学习和智能基础设施复合材料、化工生产、清洁能源、机器学习和智能基础设施等领域的多学科研究将有助于可持续增长。

The context:Queen's values highly its Early Career Researchers (ECRs). We have invested in a programme of support to attract in the best talent and to support them throughout their careers beginning with providing a start-up grant to purchase equipment and to travel to network and develop their own collaborations both in the UK and overseas. Mentoring is critical in maximising outputs and provide a pathway to career development. Queen's Research and Enterprise offers support to navigate the complex funding terrain and assist in developing applications. Queen's has led the UK in First Grant awards with some 36 awards (£3.5M) from 2009. Underpinning our success is continued investment in workhorse and high-end equipment without which our ambitions to be a UK and world-leader for high impact research will not be realised. As part of Queen's "Vision 2020" Strategy we have actioned a strategic growth-for-the future plan having invested some £350M in our built environment and a further £350M planned in the coming five years. In parallel, we have entered into a new research strategy investment phase to strategically target research equipment of highest importance and of widest-use. Queen's has in place "Pioneer Research Programmes" (PRPs) research hubs that represent interdisciplinary entities to tackle (i) long-term energy security (ii) development of materials and application of engineering for medicine (iii) radiation treatment of cancer and (iv) autonomous manufacturing. To complement this our Global Research Institute (GRI) ECIT who's mission is to meet the challenges of collecting, storing and securing the torrent of digital information society now generates. Our ECRs have membership of one or more PRPs or the GRI through which they engage with fellow researchers to broaden their horizons and get to grips with the changing research scene by taking them out of their "silos" and meet head on the Industrial Strategy Challenges.Our aims and objectives:Continuous growth and development of our equipment base is critical in realising our ambition to take more of our research to an internationally competitive level by (i) increasing our capability of achieving 4* outputs, (ii) boosting competitive bidding for research grants, including the New Investigator Award (iii) attracting the best researchers from the UK and overseas. This will contribute to making the UK the best place in the world to research, discover and innovate and project further our presence on the global stage. High quality equipment will specifically support ECRs in generating e.g., initial study data to place them in a competitive position to win their New Investigator Award. This first step will initiate the legacy of research outcomes with follow on funding including e.g., Fellowships as a mechanism to accelerate their careers. In line with our ambition to engage on the global stage our ECRs will be supported to apply and win international research awards (USA-Ireland, GCRF, Newton and the EPSRC-NSF/SFI Lead Agreement).Potential applications and benefits:The ECRS will be supported by their Academic Mentors and Queen's Research and Enterprise Directorate's; Business Alliance, Research Development and Commercialisation teams. The teams will facilitate the forging of links with industry to accelerate and maximise impact. Queens has strategic international and UK-based partnerships with industry including; Thales, Huawei, Bombardier, Seagate, Kyocera [AVX Ltd) and FP McCann. The multi-disciplinary research of our ECRs in e.g.; optimisation systems, failure analysis, future manufacturing, advanced composites, chemical production, clean energy, machine learning and intelligent infrastructure composites, chemical production, clean energy, machine learning and intelligent infrastructure will contribute to the sustainable growth.