Knowledge Exchange Fellow

物理系有一个非常大的和多样化的组合STFC资助的研究，作为许多资助机构支持的更广泛的研究活动计划的一部分。其中一些研究已经在其他学科（如工程和化学）和商业开发（如计量和射频设备）中得到应用，但仍有许多潜力有待充分探索。牛津大学有一个活跃的技术转让办公室，牛津大学创新（OUI），一旦客户或市场被确定并且技术已经达到概念验证，该办公室可以协助专利申请，许可，分拆公司和咨询。然而，我们研究的大多数新应用，以及与工业界的合作研究项目，都需要对我们的产品组合有密切的直接了解，了解物理学商业化的挑战，以及专门的时间和精力来探索潜在的机会。总部设在该部门的IPS研究员在增加我们的知识交流的范围和程度方面发挥了独特的作用，改变了我们向其他领域转让技术的能力。物理系是大学数学，物理和生命科学（MPLS）部门的一部分，因此这一作用与MPLS的补充活动具有协同作用，包括员工和学生在企业和创业方面的培训活动，以及对管理大型行业资助的研究项目的支持。该大学还在其研究服务办公室内设有一个知识交流和影响团队，该团队支持大学范围内的活动，例如管理研究理事会影响加速账户，与当地经济伙伴关系等利益相关者联络，并协调影响案例研究的沟通。该研究员是确保STFC资助的研究以及STFC资助的工作人员和学生得到认可和支持的关键，以实现这些更广泛的支持团队的影响。像大多数物理部门，牛津大学面临着挑战，在追求实现其研究的影响，其中一些是在STFC社区更普遍。正是在这里，牛津IPS研究员具有最重要的影响力。与其他研究委员会资助的研究项目相比，STFC资助的研究项目通常开始和结束于较低的技术准备水平（TRL），并且通常不针对学术界以外的特定应用。这使得理解研究项目的影响途径成为学术界的一个特殊挑战，从而降低了工作产生非学术影响的可能性。迄今为止，两名在职的牛津研究员利用他们在知识交流方面的专业经验和专门资源，在项目开始之前、项目期间和项目结束之后，克服了这一不利条件。此申请要求延长两年的牛津IPS奖学金。

The Department of Physics has a very large and diverse portfolio of STFC-funded research, as part of a wider programme of research activity supported by many funding agencies. Some of this research has already found application elsewhere, in both other academic disciplines (e.g. engineering and chemistry) and commercial development (e.g. metrology and radiofrequency devices), but much has potential yet to be fully explored. The University has an active technology transfer office, Oxford University Innovation (OUI), which can assist in patent applications, licensing, spin-out companies and consulting once a customer or market is identified and the technology has reached proof of concept. However, the majority of new applications for our research, and for collaborative research projects with industry, require a close, direct knowledge of our portfolio, an understanding of the challenges to commercialisation from physics, as well as dedicated time and effort to explore potential opportunities. An IPS Fellow based in the department has played a unique role in increasing our knowledge exchange in both scope and extent, transforming our ability to transfer technology to and from other domains. The Department of Physics is part of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division of the University, and thus this role has synergies with complementary activities in MPLS, including training activities for staff and students in enterprise and entrepreneurship and support for managing large industry-funded research programmes. The University also has a Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team within its Research Services office, which supports University-wide activity, such as administering research council Impact Acceleration Accounts, liaising with stakeholders such as the Local Economic Partnership and coordinating communication of impact case studies. The Fellow is key to ensuring STFC-funded research as well as staff and students funded by STFC are recognised and supported to achieve impact by these wider support teams. Like most Physics Departments, Oxford faces challenges in the pursuit of realising impact from its research, some of which are more prevalent in the STFC community. It is here, where the Oxford IPS Fellow is having the most significant influence. STFC-funded research projects often begin and end at lower Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) compared to those funded by other research councils and are not, generally, aimed at specific applications beyond academia. This makes understanding the Pathways to Impact of a research project a particular challenge for the academic and consequently reduces the probability of non-academic impact arising from the work. The two Oxford Fellows in post to date have been able to address this disadvantage before projects are started, as well during and after a project has ended, by using their professional experience of knowledge exchange and their dedicated resource. This application requests the two year extension to the Oxford IPS Fellowship.