“The University of Lincoln offers a number of scholarships to provide international students with financial assistance. See the information below for details of funding that may be available to you.

You are advised to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment on these limited offers.

You should make clear in your original application what your sources of funding are and whether you wish to be considered for a University of Lincoln International Scholarship and or Special Criteria Scholarship.

University of Lincoln International and Special Criteria Scholarships are only available for self-financing students who pay the full tuition fees.”

Please contact the International Office for further discussion and application.

The focus of the scheme is on meetings aiming to open up new directions in research or to explore emerging research fields with potential impact on new developments in science. Proposals should demonstrate the potential  for initiating follow-up research activities and/or developing future collaborative actions. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged.

Note that this call will fund events taking place in 2011.

1. Effective supervision |  6/7 May 11.00 start
2. Making a successful research grant proposal |  20/21 May 11.00 start
3. Research Strategy and the REF |  10/11 June 4.30pm start
4. Examining doctoral candidates |  17/18 June 11.00 start
5. Facing up to the new agenda |  1st/2nd July 4.30pm start

The Missenden Centre approach to running training seminars is very “hands-on”: generally you’ll be given the opportunity to specify your own particular agenda and the rest of the group will respond to your questions and issues. I’ve previously taken part in a research strategy seminar run by Missenden and can confirm that it was very useful, if a little intense at times!

A funding call for proposals under the Daphne III programme is now open. Daphne is part of the General Programme ‘Fundamental Rights and Justice’. The aim of the Daphne programme is to contribute to the prevention and combating of violence against children, young people and women and to protect victims and groups at risk.

With a budget of €28.990.560 this call for proposals for action grants aims to select projects falling under the objectives of the Daphne III programme and the call priorities from the 2009 and 2010 Work Programmes.

Priority topics for this year’s call are:
Ø Street and peer violence;
Ø Media violence;
Ø Corporal punishment of children;
Ø Capacity building of law enforcement agents and legal practitioners related to intimate partner violence;
Ø Field work at grass-root level.

Projects require a minimum partnership of 2 organisations from different EU member states and must have a duration of 12 or 24 months.

Grants awarded under the call will range from € 75.000 to € 300.000 for 12-month projects and from € 150.000 to € 600.000 for 24-month projects, which may constitute a maximum of 80% of overall eligible project cost.

Twice the usual funding is available for this call, and a higher number of projects are expected to be funded than in previous calls

Deadline: 30 April 2010

Further details and the call documents can be found on the website below:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/daphne3/funding_daphne3_en.htm

Please contact the Research Office if you require any further support.

“VREs are evolving to manage the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in carrying out research. In this session, we’ll look at several examples of VREs, discuss the work being undertaken in the sector to develop the concept of the VRE and seek to better understand the range of needs of researchers at the University of Lincoln.  More information about the work of the VRE Working Group can be found on our wiki.”

For further information about the bid writing surgeries, try this previous blog post:

From 4th March 2010, URO will be running a monthly bid writing surgery with an experienced external bid consultant, Dr. Martin Pickard (Grantcraft). The surgeries will take place on the first Thursday of every monthuntil July 2010.

Martin has been writing and supporting grant applications and projects for the past 25 years and has a wealth of experience in external funding. His advice and guidance have contributed to high levels of funding success in a number of UK universities, including Nottingham.

Dr. Pickard is available to discuss any external funding applications – at any stage. Whether you want to discuss initial ideas for funding, or you are in the final stages of bid preparation, Martin is available to help.

In addition to the monthly surgery sessions, Martin is available 24/7 for ongoing bid advice and guidance to University of Lincoln staff. He can also deliver presentations to groups of staff on a specific funding call or topic. Please contact us to find out more.

• Fulbright Postgraduate Student Awards | Awards and Programmes for UK Citizens | US-UK Fulbright Commission
• Beta technology: Life+
• British Library E-Tendering: Access to Scholarly Content: Gaps and Barriers
• ESRC – ESRC-ICSSR India-UK Scholar Exchanges 2010
• Summer Institute for Outstanding European Students | Awards and Programmes for UK Citizens | US-UK Fulbright Commission
• JISC Grant Funding 1/10: Access to Resources and Open Innovation
• NERC – Demonstration of High Resolution Sensor Networks

ResearchResearch.com is now moving to www.researchprofessional.com

Research Professional is >Research’s global platform for delivering news and funding information, and is the new home for the ResearchResearch.com website you have all been using for this information up till now.

Nothing about your current site license or the way you access the site will change. Please amend any links that you may have to the website, either in your personal records, favourites, or posted on web pages, and update them to www.researchprofessional.com immediately.

Please also make sure that www.researchprofessional.com is added to the list of permitted domains for your email filter, as your email alerts will soon be sent from alerts@researchprofessional.com.

More information about the change at >Research is available on www.researchresearch.com/rebrand.

If you need any further support, please contact us. I’m running sessions monthly on using Research Professional to find funding. You can read more about these here.

In this lunchtime seminar open to all Lincoln academic and research staff, Dr. Martin Pickard will outline the Marie Curie Fellowships scheme and explain how to write a good proposal. Martin has over 20 years of bid-writing experience and has contributed to successful Marie Curie bids across a range of disciplines, from Art to Biological Science.

The Fellowships are part of the European Commission’s “People” Programme within Framework Programme 7 which provides funding for researcher mobility within and outside the EU. Fellowships usually last between 1 and 2 years.

The event takes place in MC3106 on 4th March 2010 between 1 and 2pm. No need to book, just come along.

The BEING scheme provides support to research active members of staff to employ a Post-Graduate Research Assistant (PGRA), to assist on a specific project activity that will lead, directly or indirectly, to a bid for external research grant income. The purpose of the scheme is to allow the PGRA to acquire experience in research skills and benefit from playing a genuine role in academic enterprise. The scheme may, for example, involve the PGRA preparing the literature review for a grant proposal, or undertaking preliminary pilot or experimental work which will lead to a clearly identified grant proposal. The grant proposal should be produced either during the period of the internship, or immediately following it with the outputs of the internship feeding directly into the proposal. Where possible, the PGRA should be allowed to benefit by contributing to the editing or critiquing of the proposal.

The PGRA may be a Masters or PhD student, but should be a registered student of the University of Lincoln when applying for and during the internship.

The scheme provides primarily for a bursary of £2,000. A small amount may be requested to support unavoidable additional costs (e.g. PGRA travelling costs if the research involves visiting an external archive), but cannot normally cover equipment. Project are expected to last 6-8 weeks.

Deadline: 5^th April 2010.

For further information and for details of how to apply, please contact the Research Office: research@lincoln.ac.uk