Funding Opportunities

1. ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL Funding Opportunities Caterina Mora and Vivienne Blackstone, Mathematical Sciences Women in Mathematics Meeting 16th April 2010

2. Outline • Responsive Mode • First Grants • Fellowships • Postdoctoral and Career Acceleration Fellowships • Leadership Fellowships • Managed Calls • Mathematics Underpinning the Mission Programmes

3. EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Staff • David Harman – Head of Programme • Mark Bambury – Portfolio Manager for Applied Mathematics • Programme and Platform Grants, First Grants • Caterina Mora – Portfolio Manager for Pure Mathematics • Fellowships • Vivienne Blackstone – Portfolio Manager for Statistics, OR and Mathematical Physics • Education and Training

4. Responsive Mode

5. Responsive Mode • If the restrictions on the First Grant scheme do not allow for the type of project you are considering then you should apply through standard responsive mode. • No limits on duration or resource • Panels meet 4 times a year • Primary criterion is Research Quality The project should be the driver as to which funding route is the most appropriate for your application to EPSRC.

6. First Grant Scheme

7. First Grant Scheme • First application to EPSRC (not including fellowships) • Within 36 months of first permanent academic post in the UK • Within 10 years of completing your PhD • Capped at £125k at full economic cost • Limited duration of up to two years • First Grants are only compared to other first grant applications at panel meetings

8. Managed Calls Fellowships

9. Postdoctoral Fellowships • Enable talented researchers to establish an independent research career • Up to 3 years fellowship • Primarily funding salary costs, travel and subsistence • Can be used to change academic institution • No nationality or age restrictions, but applicants must have no more than 3 yrs postdoctoral experience • Proposals are peer reviewed. Suitably supported proposals are then sent to a Sifting panel, where the top applicants are chosen, and invited to interview. • Call opens in early summer

10. Career Acceleration Fellowships • Supports talented individuals at an early stage of their research career • Up to 5 years of funding for salary, travel, equipment and research staff • Expectation that fellows will have established an independent career of international standing by the end of the award. • Should not hold, or have held, a permanent academic post, or have received, before the start date of the award, the promise of a permanent academic post. • You should have between 3 and 10 years postdoctoral research experience. • Next call opens around July 2010, full details of the 2009/2010 call are still available online, and may be of interest.

11. Leadership Fellowships What are they? • Support for future international research leaders • Candidate must hold permanent academic post in eligible institution • Up to 5 years funding (including PI time, T&S and/or PDRAs/PhDs Process • Call for outlines should appear in July 2010 • Sifting panel (December 2010?) to invite full proposals • Interview panel around May 2011

12. Managed Calls Mathematics Underpinning the Mission Programmes

13. What are the Mission Programmes? • Address important societal issues • Large potential impact • Long-term goals • Multidisciplinary research • Teams from all areas are needed • Research funding • Managed calls • Co-funding of some projects Living with environmental change (£9M); Global Uncertainties: security for all in a changing world (£6M); Ageing: life-long health and wellbeing (£11M)

14. Energy and Digital Economy Energy: help UK develop a sustainable and environmental-friendly economy • Adapt to climate change • Low-carbon economy • Power generation, supply and transport • … Digital Economy: improve the way information and communication technologies transform life and society • Technology and healthcare • Applications in transport • Information exchange and society • …

15. Call: Mathematics underpinning the Mission Programmes Why the call? • Support cross-disciplinary collaborations that develop and apply novel mathematical approaches to Energy and Digital Economy • Promote greater engagement and knowledge exchange between the maths research community, other disciplines and application area More information • All proposals must demonstrate clear relevance to at least one of the strategic priorities of Energy or DE • Up to £5 million earmarked for this activity (£3M from Energy and DE) • We expect to fund 7-12 proposals • Call should open in the next month or so…check the website!

16. Career breaks/part time working • Fellowships may be held part time at a minimum of 50% FTE • CAFs and LFs may convert to part time during award • Maternity leave and career breaks are excluded when considering eligibility for schemes • Call us if you have any questions!

17. Summary • Responsive Mode • First Grants • Fellowships • Postdoctoral and Career Acceleration Fellowships • Leadership Fellowships • Managed Calls • Mathematics Underpinning the Mission Programmes Register to the newsletter: maths@epsrc.ac.uk

18. Thank you