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Professorship and Associate Professorship Call 2016 – Advisory Session

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cropped-theprofessorisinrevised-banner-FACEBOOK-CopyTo support the Professorship/Associate Professorship call announced by the Vice Chancellor in January, Dr Steve Wyn Williams will run an advisory session to guide prospective applicants on the conferment process and criteria.

The session will be held on:-

  • Wednesday 9th March at 11.00 am in Cadman Executive Boardroom, Cadman Building, Stoke

The session will run for two hours.

In order to ensure that there is sufficient time for questions and discussion, attendance will be capped at twenty-five members of staff. If necessary an additional session will be arranged before 4th April deadline for applications .

Places must be booked and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. To book a place, please email  your request to researchservices@staffs.ac.uk by no later than 4th March 2016

New staff need to know about this blog

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All new research staff should be informed about support available on finding research funding and other services offered by the External Projects Team. We need help from all departments to ensure that this happens because we don’t usually know if new academics are joining the university.

The team have developed a series of documents to tell new staff about the services we offer and what they can find on our blog.

If you are a manager or colleague to a new member of staff please point them in the direction of the find funding section of our blog. This has a series of guides, including:

How to find funding

Request a fund search for your research idea

Using Research Professional –our fund search website

Overview of European Funding

Online funding systems needing External Projects Team approval

Contracts Review Process

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Funding Database

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Research Professionals funding database enables academics to search for research funding in all disciplines from sponsors in the UK and overseas. The database has an easy-to-use interface and powerful searching and customisation tools.

Staffordshire University subscribes to Research Professional. Use is free for all University members. From any computer within the University network, you can start searching directly by going to http://www.researchprofessional.com

Using the Database

The site has a quick start guide which can get you started on the help page. This can show you how to use the database, set up an account and customise your searches. There is also a video introduction.

Searches can be sorted by sponsor, or by discipline (as broad or specific as you choose), or you can run a multiple search combining various criteria at the same time.

To manage your searches more effectively, you need to open a personal account. This allows you to:

  • use the database from any computer – your office or anywhere else if you are travelling
  • create customised email alerts that will bring funding opportunities to your inbox
  • save the results of your searches and re-run them
  • store interesting funding opportunities, add notes and share information with your colleagues

Registration for a personal account is free, and takes about 1 minute to complete. To do this, use a computer within the University network and go to http://www.researchprofessional.com, click on ‘register’ and complete the form.

If you need any help with using the system email externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN and RISE Training Event

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***Addition to this blog -Two dates in the UK have been added to this training event.

  • University of Glasgow, Tuesday 21 January 2014
  • University of Westminster, Wednesday 29 January 2014

Further details here:http://www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie/events/Pages/proposal_writing_itn_rise.aspx

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There will be an information day on making applications to the Marie Curie ITN and RISE funds. This event is ideal for anyone who missed the Universities Marie Curie talk last Wednesday or is considering applying.

ITNs are Innovative Training Networks. They aim to create training programmes between the academic and non-academic sector to exchange knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit.

RISE funds are Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges. They are staff exchanges to share knowledge and ideas from research to market. They are for academics and non-academics.

The event will be on Wednesday 15 January 2013 in Brussels, but can also be followed by webstream. This stream will start 12:45pm.
The deadline for ITN applications is 9 April 2014.
The deadline for RISE applications is 24 April 2014.

Additional Information

These funds are part of the new Horizon 2020 calls. Anyone who is still not sure what Horizon 2020 is all about can get an overview on the UKRO website, plus fact sheets.

If you have not used this site before you will need to set up an account to access the information. The University is a subscriber to UKRO.

http://www.ukro.ac.uk/subscriber/funding/Pages/index.aspx

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Getting up to Speed on European Funding

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Book your place on Staffordshire University’s annual workshop, Getting up to Speed on European Funding.

Special guest, Eevi Laukkanen, will be coming to Staffordshire University on 11 December 2013. Eevi is from UKRO in Brussels and will be talking about the new European funding streams being launched in January 2014.

The event will be held in LT113 Ashley. There are three open sessions which staff are invited to book on onto:

9:30-11:55 Welcome to Horizon 2020, LT113 Ashley, Stoke
• Horizon 2020, the replacement for FP7 which funds research and innovation

12:10-13:00 Discovering Erasmus+, LT113 Ashley, Stoke
• Erasmus+, funding education and vocational training scheme

14:00-14:45 H2020 rules of participation and financial models LT113 Ashley, Stoke

If you wish to book onto any of these sessions please email  externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk specifying which session(s).

Plus for those of you who already have ideas in mind of projects to develop we have a limited number of 20 minute one to one slots to enable you to get expert advice from Eevi Laukkanen on developing your application. Anyone who is interested in these should email the External Projects Team directly on the address below.

• 16:00-17:00 –One to one sessions –LT113 Ashley, Stoke

For further details please email externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk

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Support with European Funding

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The University is also a subscriber to the UK Research Office (UKRO). This specialises in European funding and events. You can subscribe to get emailed when funding calls and events are open in your research area.

To join use this link http://ims.ukro.ac.uk/UKRO/login.aspx and click on the option ‘If you do not yet have a profile’. The site will use your email address to identify you are a member of staff at Staffordshire University and give you free access to it. You subscribe to emails using the ‘My Profiles’ section at the top of the page.

If you want to visit the main UKRO website you can access it here: www.ukro.ac.uk