Building research networks in Europe

The University of Nottingham has underlined its commitment to building relationships with the University of Tübingen and other leading German research institutions with the announcement of networking funding. Funding of €25,000 is available for research projects involving the universities of Nottingham and Tübingen, with proposals that are interdisciplinary and/or focusing on Africa particularly encouraged. To …

Update for our community of postgraduate research students

I would like to share an update bringing together a number of recent communications of interest to our community of postgraduate research students (PGRs). While Covid-19 and national restrictions are having an impact on all our lives and across our whole University community, it is important to recognise that the pandemic has been a particularly …

Researchfish 2019: get ready to report on the outcomes and impact of your funding 

Researchfish – the online platform that allows researchers to report to funders on the outcomes, outputs and impact of their discoveries – is an essential tool supporting the University of Nottingham’s growing focus on demonstrating the impact of our research. It provides funders with the information they require to measure research impact and report on …

Significant investment in our world-changing research

Professor Dame Jessica Corner, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, introduces the new Beacons of Excellence – leading research areas that will have a far-reaching impact on some of today’s global challenges. In my previous blog post, I wrote about our vision for the future of research here at the University. This vision is exciting, …

Multidisciplinary Aerospace Research Challenge

Prof Hervé Morvan, Director of the Institute for Aerospace Technology, gives some background on the Aerospace Research Challenge, an opportunity for researchers across all faculties to receive project funding up to £50,000. The Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT) is running a multidisciplinary Aerospace Research Challenge (MARCh) aiming to seed new ideas for research with applicability …

Making Science Public

So, here’s an event  that I’m already registered to attend – ‘Making Science Public: Challenges and Opportunities‘ on Feb 11 up at the Trent Building. Unusually for me I’ll be going to the whole thing – often I only get time to dip in and out of conferences and launches. But as well as looking …

EU funding – how do I access it?

The University of Nottingham has received more than €100m in EU research funding since 2007, with 232 successful proposals submitted to its Seventh Framework Programme — or FP7, as it’s more commonly referred to. That’s a huge amount of money — €101,460,000 to be exact. And it’s helped to fund projects as wide ranging as …

Nottingham researchers – it’s all about the money

Calling Nottingham researchers! Advice is available from Research and Graduate Services on funding available from the European Commission. Matthew Rackley is the person to speak to. He sent this message out, but I thought it was worth repeating in case you missed it. “This week the final and largest ever raft of FP7 calls have …