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Research Opportunities

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For more information, call Mylene Powell in the Research Office, ext 3812 (mornings), email: M.Powell@sussex.ac.uk

BRITISH COUNCIL UK/AUSTRIA: applications invited to develop Austro-British research projects in the fields of the environment, biotechnology, medical technology, information technology and communications and transport engineering. Closing date: 31 May 1997.

DTI INITIATIVE - BIOTECHNOLOGY MEANS BUSINESS: Biotechnology Exploitation Platform Challenge. To anchor the benefits of publicly funded bioscience in the UK. Up to £250,000 award. Closing date: 17 January 1997.

EPSRC FARADAY PARTNERSHIPS: Call for proposals to improve links between the UK science, engineering and technology base and industry. Closing date: 1 December 1996.

WOLFSON LABORATORY RENOVATION, MODERNISATION AND EQUIPMENT PROGRAMME - PHASE IV 1997-2000: Applications invited to fund the renovation and modernisation of selected applied research laboratories which are to be used for new or different purposes in applied science and technology. Closing date: 15 December 1996.

LISTER INSTITUTE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS: Candidate must be in the bio-medical or related fields and aged under 34 years, with evidence of independent research and with an interest in a scientific aspect of preventive medicine. Closing date: 24 January 1996.

NERC ACADEMIC POSTS IN EARTH OBSERVATION: to stimulate a wider academic and teaching base with the ability to support the overall strategic objectives of the EOSTB. The increasing demand for cross-disciplinarity requires assimilation into EO of expertise from the physical and other sciences. No fixed closing dates.

THE LEVERHULME TRUST 1997 STUDY ABROAD STUDENTSHIPS: Tenable for 12 or 24 months for advanced study or research at a centre of learning in any part of the world except the UK and USA. Closing date: 6 January 1996.

EU ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE: Trans-national EU research projects are invited which fit the following areas of the Work Programme: Research into the Natural Environment, Environmental Quality, Global Change, Environmental Technologies, Space Techniques applied to Environmental Monitoring, Human Dimensions of Environmental Change. Closing date: 15 January 1997.

NERC (CASE) RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS IN EARTH OBSERVATION: to apply information systems knowledge to environmental issues. Closing date: 6 January 1996.

REDEURAL AWARDS: to strengthen the relations between Enterprises and Universities in Europe and Latin America and promote research and training projects with a transnational scope. Closing date: November 1996.

WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND DIET AND CANCER AWARDS: applications invited. 3 years grants of up to £33,000 per year to fund epidemiological and experimental research in the effects of food and nutrition on the origins, causes and prevention of cancers. Closing date: 6 December

1996. NHS DEVELOPING OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS FOR SONOGRAPHY: to promote developments and improvements in healthcare delivery. To develop Occupational Standards across the range of diagnostic medical utrasound practice. Closing date: 24 January 1997.

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Friday November 22nd 1996