Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/X018237/1
Cross-disciplinary research for Environmental Solutions - invitation to accept funding
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr A van Dodeweerd, University of Reading, Research and Enterprise Services
- Grant held at:
- University of Reading, Research and Enterprise Services
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Agricultural systems
- Earth & environmental
- Environmental economics
- Diet & health
- Environment & Health
- Abstract:
- A decision-making committee consisting of four Research Deans, members of the Research Development Team (Research Services), two early career researchers and HR will be established, ensuring all research disciplines will be represented across each of the University's four research themes (Agriculture, Food & Health; Environment; Heritage & Creativity; Prosperity & Resilience). It will be chaired by the Research Dean of the Environment theme. We will advertise this call for funding openly and widely across all Research Divisions in the University and it will be open to all academic and research staff, with project leads meeting NERC PI eligibility and project involvement encouraged across career stages and including PDRAs. Potential applicants will complete a short Expression of Interest to the committee briefly outlining their idea, how it addresses cross-disciplinary research for Discovery Science, and how it has the potential to develop integration of the relevant disciplines. Applicants will also be required to detail their budget and confirm projects will be completed and funds spent by end of March 2023. The committee assessment meetings will then consider the following in order to make decisions: - Eligibility and fit to call - Research excellence and proposal quality - Demonstration of how the project will promote and enhance cross-disciplinarity - Disciplinary balance If there is a greater call on the budget than funds available, prioritisation will be as follows: - Projects that foster new and novel collaborations between researchers, groups and/or disciplines - Projects supporting the development of early career researchers - Projects that foster interdisciplinarity amongst several groups Following an initial assessment based on the above criteria, the committee will undertake an "equality impact assessment". This will be to review anonymised and confidential data (where it is available) relating to staff applying for the funds to ensure that any decisions made relating to the fund allocation do not disproportionately disadvantage a particular group of staff with particular protected characteristics. Once the funding has been allocated by the committee, all successful applicants will be informed of the result and allocated a project code for their project so that expenditure can be easily tracked. The Research Accounts team will monitor expenditure regularly on projects. They will provide reports to PIs every month to ensure budgets are fully used by March 2023. If there are major variances in funding (over or underspends) then these will be highlighted and brought to the attention of the committee.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/X018237/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grant FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- DS Discipline Hopping
This grant award has a total value of £100,810
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Exception - Other Costs |
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| £100,810 |
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