4 May, 2018
News & Announcements
- Innovate UK has up to £20 million to invest in cutting-edge ideas for innovative new products and services in any sector of the economy – gov.uk
- EPSRC announced Professor Lynn Gladden as new Executive Chair – esprc.ukri.org
- ESRC launched twelve transnational projects to receive 11.5 million euros for research on transformations to sustainability – esrc.ukri.org
- The International Development Committee took evidence on UK ODA from Penny Mordaunt, International Development Secretary – parliament.uk
- BBSRC announced UK-Brazil research partnerships to tackle anti-microbial and insect pest resistance in Brazilian agriculture – bbsrc.ukri.org
- EPSRC introduced ‘EPSRC Big Ideas’, a new initiative to encourage impactful and exciting ideas from researchers and innovators – esprc.ukri.org
Funding
- British Academy Sustainable Development Programme. Deadline 30 May
- Wellcome Research Enrichment awards. Deadline 31 May
- ESRC Festival of Social Science. Deadline 1 June
- EMRO/WHO TDR Small Grants Scheme for implementation research in infectious diseases of poverty. Deadline 1 June
- ESRC Open Large Grants Competition. Deadline 1 June
- ESRC Climate change network plus competition. Deadline 5 June
Events & Reports
- WHO-TDR New online implementation research training, first course on 17 May
- BBSRC The future of long-term experiments in agricultural science 21-23 May
- NERC Ganga Delta – Bay of Bengal Interactions sandpit event,11-13 September in Kolkata, India (register by 22 May)
- British Council and NSFC UK-China Workshop for Regenerative Dentistry – From tooth development to regeneration, 22-24 July in Leeds (register by 20 May)
Other News & Interesting Links
- Top 10 reads and resources on partnering for more effective and impactful development research – Research to Action
- It’s not enough for research to be useful to policy actors, we must try to actually influence change – LSE Impact Blog
- Making more of multimorbidity: an emerging priority – the Lancet