An Enterprise Fellowship is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with the potential to be truly life-changing! It nurtures and supports promising science and technology researchers, enabling them to develop into successful, world-class entrepreneurs. Learn more about becoming an Royal Society Edinburgh (RSE)…
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Even with the discovery of a vaccine, the world as we know it will change, and society will need to adapt to a “new normal”. Some sectors will be hit harder than others. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term used…
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The government supported agency for supporting innovation in the armed services are ready to announce a series of funding calls in the New Year. DASA will announce the next topics in a series of calls to be announced in January.…
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The Scottish Government has made up to £500,000 available immediately for SFC’s Climate Emergency Collaboration Challenge in Academic Year 2019-20. We are inviting universities and colleges to submit proposals for funding by 24 October 2019. SFC is inviting proposals for…
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The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) has recently advised on new funding streams across various challenge areas. In collaboration with company partners, academics can contribute to revolutionising UK industry. Most relevant to Edinburgh Napier University, they are looking for exciting…
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Lorna Hogarth from the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) is coming to deliver details on funding opportunities via Innovate UK funding . She will cover KTP funding and the Industrial Strategy Funding streams. She will also be available for one to…
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Inside Government Research and Innovation Conference The annual UK conference on research and innovation further emphasised the Government’s commitment to support the academic community to work with the UK business community. The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund remains the spearhead funding…
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Last week Yaso Kunaratnam, Policy Officer at UKCDR delivered a presentation on “The evolving research for development landscape”. UKCDR are a collaboration of government and research funders working in the international development arena and together they provide high-level strategic coherence…
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Peer-review is important in research to ensure the quality and integrity of research activity. It is also an important part of the research funding process both once you have submitted to the funder, but also within institutions before you submit…
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Here’s the second of our ‘meet the academic‘ interviews – where we ask researchers a few questions about their work, and tease some tips from them. Dr Katherine Staines is Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the School of Applied Sciences.…
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