A couple of recent initiatives from EPSRC may be of interest
EPSRC Early Career Forum
The EPSRC Engineering Theme are recruiting new members for their Early Career Forum, an informal advisory stream with a membership reflecting the breadth of the early career engineering community.
Applications are now being accepted to diversify the Forum, and EPSRC welcome applications from both early career engineering academics (holding a permanent academic position or fellowship) and engineering users from industry, the third sector or government organisations. If you would be interested in applying, further details are available online
Nominations close at 16.00 on 04 April 2018.
EPSRC Big Ideas
We are seeking adventurous and exciting ideas from the research community that will have the ability to enthuse the public and Government, and that will be transformative or enabling if successful.
The EPSRC Big Ideas activity will create a supportive environment for new ideas, discoveries and innovations arising from the research community to develop and flourish. We are seeking ideas in the context of three perspectives: Industrial Strategy, fundamental science and multidisciplinary research. Initially, we would welcome ideas particularly within the fundamental research and multidisciplinary areas, to complement activities that are already in progress as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
This is not a call for proposals. EPSRC is looking to generate and prioritise a number of community-led 'Big Ideas'. These will be used in the development of research strategy, and could potentially attract investment at a later stage as opportunities arise. Please ensure that when completing the form, you write with this in mind, i.e. we are looking for ideas at this stage, not full research proposals.
For more information, please see the guidance or email direct