Interdisciplinary Research Clusters and the Flexible Fund: supporting ambitious, challenge-led discovery

A new fund supporting interdisciplinary research is set to make its first awards. The University’s Flexible Fund is linked to our Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (IRCs), which bring together academics and our partners to address the key challenges of our age. The Flexible Fund is designed to support interdisciplinary research projects in the early stages of development. …

£1.5m EPSRC fellowship for Professor Neil Champness

Neil Champness, Professor of Chemical Nanoscience, has been awarded a £1.5m Established Career Fellowship by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). EPSRC fellowships support exceptional individuals who are delivering the highest quality research to meet UK and global priorities. The award to Professor Champness recognises his world-leading research into molecular structures and will support the development …

Transformative Technologies – changing people’s lives for the better

Q&A with Professor Neil Champness, Global Research Theme Lead for Transformative Technologies. This is the second of our monthly academic profiles of our five Global Research Theme (GRT) leads, for you to find out who they are, their research and what it means to lead one of the University’s five Global Research Themes. Read our …