Open Call for Knowledge Exchange Fellow: Environmental Response to Hydrogen Emissions (UK)

Deadline: 13-Oct-22

Apply for funding to be a knowledge exchange (KE) fellow supporting the projects funded in the environmental response to the hydrogen emissions programme.

You must focus on accelerating and amplifying impact throughout the cycle of the programme, by engaging and working with a range of stakeholders, partners and user communities.

Funding Information

You can receive up to £250,000 of funding towards the fellowship. NERC will fund 100% of the full direct costs.
Funding will be available from February 2023 for up to 24 months.

What they're looking for?

The KE fellowship will enable the sharing, flow and translation of knowledge and expertise between the environmental response to hydrogen emissions programme and its stakeholders, partners and user communities.
You should focus on accelerating and amplifying impact throughout the cycle of the programme, by engaging and working with a range of stakeholders (as well as the researchers funded through the programme), such as:
- policymakers
- industry
- user communities
- business intermediaries.
Impact is defined according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) definition as an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia.
You should identify the key stakeholders, partners and user communities you will interact with, and who will benefit from your programme of work and what impacts this may generate. This should specifically focus on relationships with the following partners in this programme:
- BEIS
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Department for Transport (DfT)
- relevant UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) activities.
Other partners may include, but are not limited to, hydrogen producers, users (potential and real) and the energy community.

Eligibility Criteria

Organisation eligibility
- UKRI research and fellowship grants for all schemes may be held at:
  - approved UK higher education institutions
  - approved research council institutes
  - independent research organisations
  - public sector research establishments.
Co-applications
- Applications are also welcome for co-KE fellows. In this case, the distinct roles and responsibilities of the co-KE fellows (maximum of two) must be clearly detailed in the application. You can either submit:
  - one joint application (if both applicants are from the same organisation a joint application must be used, with one applicant listed as principal investigator and the other listed as co-investigator)
  - separate applications, making it clear that the applications are linked.
- For co-applications, you must demonstrate the clear split of responsibility, for example strategy and management. In this case, the applicants must make clear to the assessment panel how they would effectively work together to deliver the required objectives. Applicants do not need the same level of expertise, but both partners should be capable of taking responsibility for the whole application if necessary.