6-10 January 2014 (Cranage Hall, Cheshire) The AHRC is working in partnership with ESRC, EPSRC, Dstl and CPNI, to commission new research to develop a greater understanding of how empathy and trust are developed, maintained, transformed and lost in social…
Research Investment Fund (RIF)
The University is making available an annual £500k investment fund to assist academic staff with the development of new strategic research opportunities. The fund will seek to support our research infrastructure through PhD studentships, equipment and the pump-priming of new…
Long Term Care Revolution
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is inviting applications for participation in a revolutionary sandpit workshop in the autumn (PDF, 550Kb) looking for innovative approaches to shake up conventional thinking about institutional long-term care. The aim of this sandpit is to bring together…
EPSRC Call for Participants: Digital Personhood Sandpit
The Research Councils’ Digital Economy (DE) theme has issued an invitation for expressions of interest from eligible individuals to attend a five-day interactive workshop, or sandpit, from 26-30 November 2012. The aim of the sandpit is to stimulate thinking in promising new…
More with Less: Engineering Solutions for Resource Efficiency
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are looking for enthusiastic participants from a wide range of disciplines who will bring their expertise to an ideas factory sandpit exploring the challenges of: Dematerialisation (eg lightweighting, novel materials functionality, novel…
EPSRC Resource Efficiency Scoping Workshop
The EPSRC invites expressions of interest to attend a scoping workshop to be held in Birmingham on 26 April 2012. The workshop will bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplines, industrialists and other stakeholders that have a broad…