Deadline: 19 September 2017
Applications are open for “Researcher Links Regional Workshops” that brings together early-career researchers from the UK and other regional partner countries to allow them to make international connections that can improve the quality of their research.
These grants are provided by the Newton Fund, a UK Government initiative funded by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, together with partner funders from Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand.
The Newton Fund aims to promote the economic development and welfare of either the partner countries or, through working with the partner country, to address the problems of low-income and vulnerable populations.
Objectives
All Researcher Links-funded workshops will have the following three overarching objectives:
- Support international development-relevant research
- Contribute to capacity building of early career researchers
- Establish new research links or significantly develop existing links, with the potential for longer term sustainability
Eligibility Criteria
- Each proposal must have one Principal Applicant from the UK and one Principal Applicant from the host country
- Both Principal Applicants must be Leading Researchers or Established Researchers
- Principal Applicants must be permanent employees of one of the following (this means that Emeritus and Honorary Professors may not apply as lead):
- A not-for-profit higher education institution
- A UK higher education institution (all UK higher education institutions are eligible)
- A not-for-profit research organisation
- A Catapult Centre (in the case of the UK Principal Applicant).
- Both of the Principal Applicants’ institutions (the ‘Lead Institutions’) must have the capacity to administer the grant where contracting requires
- Individual departments within a single institution can make multiple applications per call provided that the proposed activities are clearly different
- Principal Applicants may only submit one Researcher Links application per Researcher Links call.
- Principal Applicants that have received Researcher Links grants in previous years can submit further applications for Researcher Links provided the proposed activities are clearly distinct from, or build on, any already funded through the Newton Fund. Principal applicants may not apply if they have already received a Researcher Links grant that year.
- Organisations affiliated to higher education institutions in the UK or any other country and based in the host country, (e.g. an overseas campus) may apply as the Lead Institution in the partner country provided that other eligible higher education institutions or research organisations are also involved as Associated Partners in-country.
- Organisations cannot apply as Lead Institutions in Links with their own affiliates in other countries.
- Partner Countries:
- Newton Fund Researcher Links Regional Workshops can be proposed between the UK and Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit Researcher Links Regional Workshops.