NERC Discipline Hopping for Discovery Science
The University has received an allocation from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to fund activities that will support academics and researchers to build expertise and agility to work across disciplinary boundaries.
PURPOSE OF THE SCHEME
Through this initiative, NERC seeks to facilitate exciting new collaborations that will build momentum towards true discipline integration and enable adventurous and ambitious curiosity-driven, high-risk and high-reward projects that push the boundaries of Discovery Science. The initiative will support the development of activities that will help the academic community to develop an understanding of different cross-disciplinary research perspectives and methodologies that could be used to enable discoveries that unlock new knowledge within the environmental sciences.
NERC is encouraging HEIs to think beyond the more common disciplinary alliances and to consider areas where the value of different, and less explored, insights can be understood and exploited. Therefore this funding will support Environmental Science in its broadest sense, encompassing Life Sciences and Global Studies for example, and including collaborations across subjects such as economics, law, sociology and the humanities generally.
FUNDING & TYPES OF ACTIVITY
Bids are expected to range from £10k-£25k. Funding is provided on a 100% FEC basis and can be used to support the following:
- collaborative research projects;
- collaborative visits to other Universities to acquire new skills or expertise or initiate and develop collaborations;
- organising meetings or sandpits to build interdisciplinary understanding and capacity, and share learning, understanding of key terms, concepts, language and tools to tackle problems;
- embedding researchers, for a short period of time, in departments outside of their own discipline area;
- external engagement with businesses, the third sector, NGOs or other end users to understand how their needs could be addressed through interdisciplinary approaches.
Deadline: Applications must be submitted by 12 noon on 14th December 2022 to research.initiatives@sussex.ac.uk
More information can be found in the specification and application form.
Contacts
If you would like to discuss your application please contact Debbie Foy at D.Foy@sussex.ac.uk
All costing queries should be directed to resdevadmin@sussex.ac.uk