NEWSLETTER |
5th June 2015 Research Funding Opportunities |
Research Funding Opportunities |
The Food Standards |
EPSRC SUPERGEN Marine Challenge 3 - Research on Marine Energy Development |
Newton Research Collaboration Programme |
ESRC Commissioning of Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) |
OpenPlant Fund |
Norman Borlaug award for field research and application |
Frontiers of knowledge awards |
Expedition award |
Conservation, Food and Health Foundation |
ESRC/DFID growth research programme – financial sector development and growth |
Researcher links workshop in Kazakhstan on clean energy promotion |
Industrial CASE studentships |
NERC joint programme on understanding and representing atmospheric convection across scales |
Research in sustainable solid waste management |
ESRC/National Research Foundation Newton call for collaborative research urban transformations in South Africa This supports collaborative projects between UK and South African researchers which may offer additional value to existing programmes of urban research, and contribute to the economic development and welfare of South Africa. ESRC has allocated up to £1.5 million and NRF has allocated up to ZAR4.5m for this call. Applicants may request between £300,000 and £500,000 and up to ZAR1.5 million per project. Closing date: 16 Jul 15 |
BBSRC/NERC/Newton Fund call for virtual joint centres with Brazil, China and India in agricultural nitrogen This enables UK researchers to establish virtual joint centres with Brazil, China and India in agricultural nitrogen, with a focus on the themes of agronomic nitrogen use efficiency, biological nitrogen use efficiency and biological nitrogen fixation. The budget for UK components of bilateral projects is worth approximately £10 million. Projects may last for up to three years. Closing date: 22 Jul 15 |
Agriculture-nutrition impact studies |
Policy internships |
Sustainable future programme grants |
Small grants Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association These grants enable students to attend academic conferences, travel for research purposes, visit libraries or other collections of research materials, visit laboratories or conduct fieldwork. Grants are worth up to £500 each. Closing date: 01 Nov 15 |
All-discipline postgraduate student awardsFulbright Commission These support UK citizens with the first year of their postgraduate study, doctoral study, visiting student research or special student research in any subject and at any accredited US university. Approximately 10 awards are available for a one-year period. Closing date: 06 Nov 15 |
Fulbright/Elsevier data analytics award |
Prize essay competition |
Young scientist research award |
Talks and Events |
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Internal |
Events
The CNHS Conversazione Food for Life (Cambridge) Don’t forget - BioBlitz 2015 - Cambridge University Botanic Gardens OPUS - keep track of your research data What does business need to know about food, energy, water and the environment?Nexus2020: the most important questions for business - UCCRI hosted workshop |
Talks Domesticating pre-installed low and zero carbon energy technologies, Dr. Lise Andreassen. Why fracking works and why not well enough, Zdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University. Health, climate change and unsustainable development – head in the sand or line in the sand?, David Pencheon, Director of NHS Sustainability Unit:. Connecting Biology to Mathematics by way of Symbolic Computing, Professor Eric Mjolsness, Leverhulme visiting Professor. Control of growth and pattern formation in the early plant embryo, Professor Dolf Weijers. Games Animals Play, Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge. |
External |
Tomorrow’s City Today: Prospects for standardising sustainable urban development University of Westminster 12th June 2015, 10am – 4.30pm |
Health research in the context of rapidly emerging public-health threats |
Watercolour- Elements of nature |
Towards a sustainable and legal wildlife trade Organised by the International Trade Centre and the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury 18th to 19th June |
2nd London Annual Planning for Climate Change Conference UCL, 25th June 2015 |
“Sustainable Buildings and Cities: Supporting climate mitigation through resource efficiency” |
Bees, flies and flowers: the ecology of pollination and why it matters |
UKERC Annual International Energy Summer School |
Can Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) work for both people and the environment? Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh 27th to 28th July |
17th Annual Bioecon Conference “Experimental and Behavioural Economics and the Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services” Call for Papers by 22nd May 2015 13th 15th September 2015 |
Call for Papers: International workshop on ecosystem management and environmental justice: Mapping the linkages International workshop at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 12th to 13th October 2015 |
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