Deadline: 8-Mar-22
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is seeking applications to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research.
Large research projects must tackle big science questions. To achieve this, they will often involve multidisciplinary approaches. They expect your proposal to show several interdependent components (they call these work packages) interacting in a single overall structure.
Funding Information
- Total fund: £12,000,000
- Award range: £1,200,000 – £3,700,000
Eligibility Criteria
- You cannot apply for this opportunity on their Joint Electronic Submission system (Je-S). It is one of the opportunities being run on the new UKRI Funding Service.
- Both research groups or individuals can apply.
- To be eligible as a principal investigator you must be:
- resident in the UK
- employed by an eligible UK research organisation:
- higher education institution
- research council institute
- recognised independent research organisation
- public sector research establishment
- employed at lecturer level (or equivalent) or above.
- NERC encourage multidisciplinary research and collaborations with other UK organisations. International and non-academic collaborators can be involved as project partners.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/nerc-large-grant-to-tackle-big-environmental-science-questions/