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ESRC New Investigator Grants; Deadline 15th September 2016

The ESRC have announced their New Investigators scheme. The call is open to high-quality candidates who have a maximum of four years’ postdoctoral experience. Proposals are welcome in any topic which falls within ESRC’s remit, including projects at the “interface with the wider sciences”, provided that social sciences accounts for at least 50% of the proposed research. The ESRC will award grants of between £100-300K at fEC, though as with other Research Council grants they will cover 80% of this cost. Awards will be for up to five years, though they will be typically three years in duration, with a special case being made for the need for five years’ worth of funding. For full details please see the call specification.
 
This call has a rolling deadline, and applications will be reviewed 3 times / year: in ESRC Panel meetings in March, July and November each year. Roughly 35 awards will be made per year.
 
Internal Selection process:
 
The ESRC expect the University to run an internal selection process to ensure that we submit only bids from outstanding individuals with the potential to become the research leaders of the future. The University can submit only a limited number of applications. To meet these requirements, this call will be coordinated according to the University’s Restricted Calls Procedure. For further details see: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/rso/restricted/procedure/
 
There will be 3 internal calls every year, ahead of the panel meetings in November, March and July. Only applicants whose proposals have been approved and selected through the internal selection process will be allowed to proceed with submission of their applications to ESRC.
 
The applicants who wish to submit an application ahead of the November Panel deadline, are required to submit to researchstrategy@admin.cam.ac.uk by 15th September 2016 (17:00):
 
  • The attached internal selection form 
  • A letter of support from your Head of Department. This letter is very important to the success of the application as it is needed to confirm that the project is supported by the Department, the applicant’s eligibility and details of any proposed departmental support (for example the provision of a mentor and a programme of research skills training).
If you have any questions, then please write to researchstrategy@admin.cam.ac.uk
 
Best wishes,
 
Gordana
Gordana Najdanovic
Research Strategy Manager (Funder Relations and Knowledge Exchange)
Research Strategy Office
University of Cambridge
Tel: + 44 (0) 1223 332219
 

Posted on 09/08/2016

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