Britain’s three leading national academies have announced a joint scheme to support multidisciplinary work that is unlikely to be supported by other funders. The Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary Research, or APEX, award scheme, was launched…
Pre-call announcement The ESRC will shortly be launching a call under the UK in a Changing Europe initiative for Brexit Priority Grants. These are to support additional activity (including research synthesis and potential new short-term research activity) related to the…
Early in 2016, Robert Macintosh published ‘Top Ten Hints on Building Your Academic Reputation’, a post aimed explicitly at postgraduate students. It was republished in the Times Higher Education blog where it lost a lot of its postgraduate context. Robert…
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and its UK lending partner, Future Finance, have announced that almost £30 million of loans guaranteed by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Master Loan Scheme will now be available in the UK. The scheme will offer loans…
The European Commission has published Erasmus+ application deadlines for 2017. The list of deadlines can be found here: Erasmus+2017Deadlines along with the latest version of the Programme Guide containing information on how to apply for Erasmus+ funding. If you are…
The MRC and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) have announced a R9 million (approximately £520k) Newton Fund funding opportunity to foster innovation in addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The research will be conducted through partnerships between South African and UK…