NeuroResearchers Fund
Proposal
Name:Job Title:
Work address:
Email address:
Research Centre:
PI/Supervisoror line manager (if applicable):
NHS/UofE Staff/Student number:
Your Source of Salary/Stipend Funding and end date of contract/stipend:
Title of Proposal
How much are you requesting?
Proposed start date and duration
Tick here to indicate you have enclosed a short CV / Tick here to indicate you have enclosed a statement of support
1) where you are planning to visit, 2) what you will do there (e.g. learn a new technique) 3) what this will achieve (e.g. bring the new technique to Edinburgh)
(50 words)
Your proposal(remember to mention where you wish to visit). (400 words max)
Budget: Please briefly itemise how the money will be spent - travel, accommodationetc. Please note this fund does not support direct research costs.
Have you tried to get funding from elsewhere, and have you any matching funds? (50 word max)
How would this award help develop your career and help you become an independent researcher? (100 word max)
What is your strategy for seeking independent funding and how will this award help you achieve this (150 words max)
Please indicate how this award will have tangible benefits for the wider Edinburgh Neuroscience Research (150 words max)
Statement of Support from Supervisor/Group Leader/Line Manager (100 word limit)
Name of Supervisor:
Statement:
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for an award from the Edinburgh Neuroscience NeuroResearchers Fund:
- You should be working or studying (postgraduate) at the University of Edinburgh (clinical staff should have an honorary contract with the University).
- You should not hold a permanent position at the University; you should be an early independent career researcher (including postdocs) or PhD student.
- Your proposal should be aimed at developing your career and producing tangible benefits for the wider Neuroscience research community at Edinburgh.
- It is important that the award will be used to initiate work likely to result in substantial funding from alternative sources (research councils, Wellcome Trust etc).
Guidance Notes
This fund is to help further the career development of early-years researchers, and bring added benefit to research in the wider Edinburgh Neuroscience community. We are seeking proposals that are innovative and interdisciplinary and that will lead to applications for independent funding.
- Proposals are invited that are innovative and interdisciplinary and are designed to produce outcomes that bring benefits to the neuroscience community in Edinburgh.
- This award is highly competitive and applications should be completed to a high standard.
- This Fund will not support running costs for research projects or salary.
- The following are examples of proposals that will be considered (this is by no means an exhaustive list):
Study visits to establish new research collaborationsthat will extend your research. These visits should expect to achieve outcomes that could not be dealt with via email/Skype etc(up to £1,5000)
Training visits to international quality laboratories or research groups to learn new techniques not available in Edinburgh (up to £1,5000)
- Applicants are encouraged to contact Edinburgh Neuroscience or a member of the committee for informal advice in advance of submitting an application. Current members are:
Cathy Abbott (Molecular Medicine Centre),
Charles ffrench-Constant (Centre for Regenerative Medicine)
Sue Fleetwood-Walker (Centre for Integrative Physiology),
Jane Haley (Edinburgh Neuroscience),
Stephen Lawrie (Psychiatry), Matt Nolan (Centre for Integrative Physiology),
Beverly Roberts (Centre for Cognitive Ageing Cognitive Epidemiology),
- Completed applications should be returned to Edinburgh Neuroscience by the advertised deadline.
- Successful applicants will be notified by the end of the month following the deadline;. Proposals should be completed within a year or the funds may be forfeited if an extension has not been agreed.
/ Edinburgh Neuroscience
University of Edinburgh
1 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ