The PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity invites proposals from eligible UK higher education institutions (HEIs) for collaborative projects in the cybersecurity of devices and networks at the edge of the internet research to be undertaken jointly with user partners.

Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), this second phase of the PETRAS programme (https://www.petrashub.org) aims to strengthen an already established and successful platform which, since 2016, has coordinated and convened 11 universities and 110 industrial and government User Partners in cross-disciplinary collaboration. PETRAS has created a dynamic shared research agenda that incorporates social and physical science challenges in equal measure and has worked across a broad range of Technology Readiness Levels. Our new ambition is to make a step change in scope, enabling trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) embedded in IoT networks to deliver safe and highly functional solutions.

This call provides an opportunity for the Centre to build upon this foundation to establish an inclusive national centre open to all and to identify and execute the best and the most transformative and impactful projects in this area, which will enable it to continue actively engaging with the user community and effectively responding to the Internet of Things (IoT) developments.

You can see the full document attached (PDF format) and on the PETRAS Website: https://www.petrashub.org/srf12019/

If you have any questions relating to the call, please get in contact at petras-proposals@ucl.ac.uk 

Coeliac UK, the charity for people who need to live gluten free, along with Innovate UK have £180,000 available for research and are inviting applications from UK businesses and researchers.

They are launching a second research call to industry and researchers to make improvements for people living with the autoimmune condition, coeliac disease. Projects must underpin and support Coeliac UK's top ten research priorities, which include:

• improving diagnostics for coeliac disease, refractory coeliac disease and/or gluten related neurological conditions

• developing tools for the long-term management of coeliac disease

• enhancing the quality of staple gluten free food

  https://www.coeliac.org.uk/campaigns-and-research/funding-opportunities/

• Find out about the latest funding calls which are relevant to the Health and Life Sciences sector

• Read more here

An information and advice session to support applications to this year’s European Research Council Advanced Grant scheme will take place on Thursday 6 June from 10.00am to 11.00am in lecture room A0.23 on the ground floor of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
 
ERC Advanced Grants support ambitious, large-scale projects of up to five years duration and up to €2.5M in value. They are non-thematic and are aimed at senior academics at or near the Professorial level. More information on the scheme can be found here.

If you'd like to come along please register.

This month we're really excited to launch a new school-university partnership training day for public engagement professionals. The course has been developed using NCCPE partnership resources and is run by the brilliant Ellie Cripps (University of Bristol) and Kirsty Ross (University of Strathclyde).

Transformative Healthcare Technologies for 2050 (call pre-announcement and information day)

The UKRI GCRF Health and Context call is seeking proposals for interdisciplinary research addressing wider contextual factors contributing to the burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These factors may include social, cultural, historical, and religious beliefs and practices, or wider biological, ecological and environmental factors. They are seeking to fund consortia conducting ambitious research that:

• goes beyond description to determine causal relationships between contextual influences and health

• develops or tests feasible interventions that are sensitive to or mitigate contextual influences on health.

Via the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), UKRI will support impactful, three-year research projects of value between £1-2 million (at 80% FEC for UK costs, 100% FEC for overseas costs). This call is being led jointly by the Medical Research Council, Economic & Social Research Council, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and applications may fall within the remit of any of, or across, these councils.

Department of Health and Social Care & NIHR, funding opportunities, policy research programme:

Applications are welcomed to receive funding of up to £200,000 focused on the area ‘assessment of the representativeness of surveys currently used to understand the experience of adult social care users and carers in England.’ Deadline Tuesday 29 Jan 2019.

A further three calls have been released with a deadline of Tuesday 12 February 2019 on the topics:‘Research call on measuring the impact of adult social care support models for older people with moderate levels of care needs,’, ‘Research call for evidence review facility to support national policy development and evaluation’, ‘Research call for fast response research and analytical facility to support policy development and evaluation’.

All of these would be great opportunities to enhance your impact profile.

The World Health Organisation has released new Housing and Health Guidelines

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The BMA Foundation for Medical Research provides approximately £700,000 of research funding annually, this year across 11 different grants. Details of the 2019 grants have now been confirmed and all grant categories can be viewed on the BMA Foundation website.

Applications for the 2019 grant round will open on the BMA Foundation website from 1 January 2019 – www.bmafoundationmr.org.uk. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2019.

The 2018/19 HEIF Impact Fund is open for proposals to support projects that facilitate and/or increase the impact of leading research, and which are potential REF2021 or future REF impact case studies. Deadline: Monday 22nd October 2018. Amount of funding: Up to £20,000 (must complete all spend before 31 July 2019).

Applications that meet the eligibility criteria of the University’s Impact Acceleration Accounts (the EPSRC IAA, the ESRC IAA, or the BBSRC IAA), should be progressed to those IAA funds in the first instance. Applications for WMS are particularly welcomed, given the lack of IAA funding that is available for these departments.

Interested applicants are invited to contact Impact Manager, Katie Irgin to discuss the most appropriate potential funding route and to request an application form. Applicants should expect to receive feedback by w/c 26 November 2018.