Funding Opportunity: Pushing the Frontiers of Environmental Science Research in the UK

Deadline: 17-Jan-23

Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high-risk and high-reward project in environmental science.

They welcome:

• MKultidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research
• Projects delivered in partnership with other research funders and users.

Funding Information

• Total fund: £25,000,000.
• Maximum award: £1,000,000.

Eligible use of Funding

• This includes costs for:
  • Geophysical Equipment Facility ocean bottom instruments.
  • Geophysical Equipment Facility seismometers.
  • The Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements, Airborne Research and Survey Facility or the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) twin otter aircraft (the facility will be able to advise on eligible instrument or aircraft costs).
  • The European Incoherent Scatter Radar facility.
  • Other ship-time or marine facility related costs.

What they're looking for?

• This opportunity supports researchers’ curiosity and imagination to enable discoveries that unlock new knowledge with a degree of adventure previously unrealised.
• They are seeking to invest in their best environmental researchers to be truly adventurous and ambitious in the pursuit of curiosity-driven, high-risk and high-reward projects.
• They’re looking for proposals that can support pure, applied, technology-led or policy-driven research but still address, or provide the means to address, clearly-defined scientific questions.
• They welcome, and are increasingly supporting, multi and interdisciplinary research, designed, supported and delivered in partnership with other research funders and research users. The research must sit predominantly within NERC’s research areas.

Eligibility Criteria

• This opportunity is open to research groups and individuals.
• They value equality, diversity and inclusion across all funding programmes, and actively encourage proposals from diverse groups of researchers.
• To be eligible as a principal investigator, you must be:
  • A resident in the UK
  • Employed by an eligible UK research organisation at lecturer (or equivalent) level.
• Eligible UK research organisations include:
  • Higher education institutions
  • Research council institutes
  • Recognised independent research organisations
  • Public sector research establishments.

For more information, visit NERC.

For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/pushing-the-frontiers-of-environmental-science-research-jan-2023/