Primary funder name: Science and Technology Facilities Council

Closing date: 01 Oct 20

Full text: The Science and Technology Facilities Council invites applications for its industrial CASE-Plus studentships. These extend the standard CASE scheme to help research students become more effective in promoting technology transfer, should their chosen career path take them into either academic research or industry. For the first three and a half years of the award, CASE-Plus operates in the same way as the CASE scheme; however, CASE-Plus studentships enable students to spend a fourth year working full-time on the premises of the non-academic partner as an employee. Universities, research council institutes and independent research organisations may apply as the academic partner. Proposals may be led by either the academic supervisor at the academic partner or a supervisor at the non-academic partner organisation, but the application must be submitted by the academic partner. The non-academic partner must host the studentship in conjunction with the university where the student would be registered. Other UK-based organisations may act as the non-academic partner if they can provide students with distinctive research training and experience not available in an academic setting. In exceptional circumstances, organisations based overseas may be eligible but they must have an established UK-based research or production capability. For Industrial CASE-Plus, the non-academic partner pays 50 per cent of the student's salary in the additional year. STFC contributes the remaining 50 per cent of, up to a maximum of £14,250.

Website: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/studentships/industrial-case-studentships/

Disciplines: Particle, Plasma & Nuclear Physics; Universe Sciences