IPS Fellow

开放大学多年来一直接受STFC研究理事会的资助。2011年，理学院经历了一次重大的重组，导致两个STFC资助的部门合并;即行星和空间科学研究所（PSSRI）和物理和天文学系，创建了新的物理科学系。新的部门目前是两个STFC滚动赠款，其天文学和行星科学研究小组和其他赠款的收件人。此外，物理科学系还拥有约20个标准学生名额，加上其电子成像中心内的8个STFC CASE学生名额。多年来，该部成员通过小猎犬2号、惠更斯号、罗塞塔号、XMM号对科学、技术和金融中心的方案作出了重大贡献，目前正在积极开展火星外行星、盖亚和欧几里得方案的工作。这些计划的研究成果包含了重要的专门知识和知识产权，可以进一步加以利用。我们通过例子证明，大学已经在从事这样的开发活动，这个IPS奖学金的建议是创造一个为期四年的位置，将调查知识转移活动的部门内，我们认为，有显着的机会增长的开发计划，这将对英国，工业和研究基地的可持续性产生重大影响。

The Open University (OU) has been a recipient of STFC research council funding for many years. In 2011 the Faculty of Science went through a major re-structuring which resulted in the merger of two STFC-funded departments; namely the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy creating the new Department of Physical Sciences. The new department is currently a recipient of two STFC Rolling Grants, for its Astronomy and Planetary Science Research Groups plus other grants. In addition, the Department of Physical Sciences holds ~20 standard studentships plus 8 STFC CASE studentships within its Centre for Electronic Imaging. Members of the Department have made significant contributions over the years to STFCs programmes through Beagle-2, the Huygens, Rosetta, XMM, and is currently actively working on the ExoMars, Gaia and Euclid programmes. The resulting research output from these programmes contains significant know-how and IP which can be exploited further. We demonstrate through examples that the University is already engaging in such exploitation activities, and this proposal for an IPS fellowship is to create a four-year position which will investigate Knowledge Transfer activities within the department, where we believe that there is significant opportunity for growth in the exploitation programme which will have a significant impact on the UK, industry and sustainability of the reserach base.