The Royal Academy of Engineering currently have two calls open, both closing on 31 May 2016:

Visiting Professors

This industry-into-academia initiative aims to utilise the experience of the Visiting Professors to enhance student learning as well as the employability and skills of UK engineering graduates.

Under the scheme, senior industry practitioners deliver face to face teaching and mentoring at the host university. They may also contribute to postgraduate teaching, curriculum development (such as the development of new modules/programmes) and strategy development. This award provides up to £10,000 per year over three years for a Visiting Professor to support the university with these activities.

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Industrial Secondment Scheme

The Scheme provides an invaluable opportunity for early- to mid-career academics to undertake a collaborative research project in an industrial environment. The scheme aims to strengthen the strategic relationship between the university and the industry host by providing an opportunity to establish or enhance collaborative research between the two parties.

The secondment will facilitate knowledge transfer between industry and academia and will enable the awardee to gain first-hand experience of working in an industrial environment and knowledge of current industry practices, thereby enabling the secondee to improve the quality and industrial relevance of their teaching. The scheme is open to engineers from all disciplines.

The Academy will contribute up to a maximum of £30,000 towards the salary costs of the applicant paid pro-rata against the amount of time to be spent at the industry host.

Full details

Please look at the full calls for more information or contact your funding team representative:

• ELS, CSE, SoBE – Stephen Parkinson
• SAM, SHS, SBS – Dr Deborah Woodman
• NMSWSS – Dr Chris Coey

The following funding opportunities have recently been announced. Please follow the links for more information. 

UK Funders

• AHRC – Cultural Value Project Targeted Call. Closing Date: 7th November 2013.
• AHRC – Creative Economy Showcase 2014: Expressions of Interest. Closing Date: 27th November 2013.
• ESRC – Europe – China call for collaborative research on The Green Economy & Understanding Population Change. Closing Date: 3rd December 2013.
• NERC – Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Fellowships. Closing Date: 20th November 2013.
• TSB/EPSRC – Towards zero prototyping. Closing Date: 27th November 2013 (registration)
• Department of Health – Policy Research Programme. Closing Date: 12th November 2013.
• NIHR – Efficacy & Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme: Researcher-led. Closing Date: 7th November 2013.
• Royal Society – Leverhulme-Royal Society Africa Award. Closing Date: 15 January 2014.
• Royal Academy of Engineering – Research Fellowships. Closing Date: 14th November 2013.
• Royal Academy of Engineering – Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships. Closing Date: 18th November 2013.
• Wellcome Trust – Pathfinder Awards. Closing Date: 9th January 2014.
• Cancer Research UK – Population Research Committee Project Grants. Closing Date: 15th November 2013.
• Cancer Research UK – Population Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. Closing Date: 15th November 2013.
• NICE – Fellowships. Closing Date: 1st November 2013.
• British Society for Geomorphology – Early Career Researcher Grants. Closing Date: 1st February 2014.
• The British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists – Orthotic Education & Training Trust. Closing Date: N/A.

EU Funders

• EU PROGRESS Programme – Social policy experimentations supporting social investments. Closing Date: 16th December 2013.
• EU DG Home Affairs – Call for Tenders: Studies Related to Trafficking in Human Beings. Closing Date: 19 November 2013. 

International Funders

• Humanitarian Innovation Fund – Small & Large Grants. Closing Date: 28th October 2013 (EoIs for the Large Grants)

The following funding opportunities have recently been announced. Please follow the links for more information.

UK Funders

• AHRC – Follow on Fund for Impact and Engagement . Up to £100,000 available for projects lasting up to 12 months. Closing Date: 31st October 2103.
• NIHR – Public Health Research Programme: Commissioned call. Projects lasting up to 3 years. Closing Date: 18th December 2013.
• NIHR – Health Technology Assessment: Commissioned call. Projects lasting up to 3 years. Closing Date: 19th December 2013.
• TSB – Assistive Technology Call. Up to £1m available. Closing Date: 4th November 2013.
• TSB – Solving business problems with environmental data. £50,000-200,000 available for projects lasting between 3-12 months. Closing Date: 13th November 2013.
• Royal Academy of Engineering – Research Exchanges with China and India. £2,000 per month of exchange visit for between 3-12 months. Closing Date: 18th November 2013.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Reframing Dementia in the 21st Century. Up to £50,000 available for 1/2 projects, lasting between 18-22 months. Closing Date: 6th November 2013.
• Nesta – Digital Makers Fund: second open call. £20,000-50,000 available. Closing Date: 14th November 2013.

 EU Funders 

• EU – ERA-NET – Transnational Joint Call 2013. A total budget of approximately €33 million is available for projects lasting up to 36 months. Closing Date: 30th October 2013.

Internal Funds

• University of Salford – VC’s Early Career Scholarships. £2,000 bursary, minimum research workload allocation and dedicated mentoring support. Closing Date: 31st October 2013.

The following funding opportunities have recently been announced. Please follow the links for more information.

UK Funders

• ESRC – Alcohol Misuse Research. A total of between £750,000-£1.5m available for projects lasting up to 5 years. Closing Date: 29th November 2013.
• TSB – Better Health Outcomes. Up to £100,000 available for projects lasting 6 months. Closing Date: 31st October 2013.
• TSB – Supply chain innovation towards a circular economy. Projects up to £1m in value, lasting up to 24 months. Closing Date: 18th December 2013.
• NIHR – Public Health Research Programme. No fixed limits on cost or duration. Closing Date: 19th November 2013.
• Royal Academy of Engineering – ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award. Up to £40,000 available. Closing Date: 21st October 2013.
• UKIERI – Knowledge Economy Partnerships. £5,000-20,000 available for partnerships lasting up to 1 year. Closing Date: 28th October 2013.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Poverty and Ethnicity: Exploring the links through quantitative research. JRF anticipate commissioning between three and seven projects of 10 months’ duration from a total budget of £150,000. Closing Date: 16th October 2013.
• Alzheimer’s Research UK – Interdisciplinary Research Grants. Up to £250,000 available for projects lasting up to 3 years. Closing Date: 24th January 2014.
• Cancer Research UK – Drug Discovery Project Grants. Up to £200,000 available for projects lasting up to 2 years. Closing Date: 5th November 2013.
• Association for International Cancer Research – Project Grants. Up to £200,000 available for projects lasting 3 years. Closing Date: 25th October 2013.
• The Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund – Junior Research Fellowships. Salary costs plus up to £17,000 pa for consumables and £1,000 pa for travel costs for fellowships lasting 3 years. Closing Date: 25th October 2013.
• Action Medical Research – Project Grants. Up to £200,000 to cover salary costs, consumables and items of equipment essential for carrying out the work. Closing Date: 25th November 2013.
• Royal Archaeological Institute – Research Grants. Up to £5,000 available. Closing Date: 11th January 2014.

EU Funders 

• EU – Directorate-General for Justice – Daphne III Action Grants. A minimum of €750,000 for projects lasting 2 years. Closing Date: 30^th October 2013.
• EU – Directorate-General for Education & Culture – Tenders on the changing pedagogical landscape. An estimated €400,000 is available for projects lasting up to 18 months. Closing Date: 22nd October 2013.