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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please see below details of an important potential PGR opportunity. I would be grateful if you could keep me informed of any progress in this area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Neil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Elaine Hurley [mailto:elaine.hurley@strath.ac.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> 01 September 2016 09:50<br>
<b>To:</b> allacademicstaff@dlists.strath.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: NPL EPSRC iCASE 2017-18 Studentships Call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dear All,<br>
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Please find below information on this year's NPL iCASE PGR studentships. The first step in securing one of these is to connect with an NPL scientist around a topic of mutual interest, in order to jointly develop a studentship proposal. I understand it that
the NPL proposer then submits the application into the NPL system by the Oct 7th deadline. Should further information became available, such as Faculty or University commitment of contributions to additional aligned studentships as in previous years, I will
let you know.<br>
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On a related matter please continue to sign up for the Faculty's NPL engagement seminar on Sept 15th using
<a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/npl-scotland-science-engagement-tickets-27383119648?aff=utm_source%3Deb_email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnew_event_email&utm_term=eventurl_text">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#0F90BA;text-decoration:none">http://www.eventbrite.com/e/npl-scotland-science-engagement-tickets-27383119648</span></a><br>
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Regards,<br>
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Rob <o:p></o:p></p>
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From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Amir Kayani <b><br>
Sent:</b> 31 August 2016 12:42</span><br>
<b><span lang="EN-US">Subject:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> NPL EPSRC iCASE 2017-18 Studentships Call...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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The NPL 2017-18 Call for EPSRC iCASE studentships has now gone live via the NPL intranet. Some of the details associated with this call being as follows.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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NPL has been awarded 10 EPSRC iCASE studentship awards for the October 2017-September 2018 start period.Five of these awards are to be allocated to areas of NPL strategic importance and involve one of NPL’s strategic or framework partner universities. This
is to enable the development of the new NPL priorities and associated partnerships. The iCASE proposal in a strategic area must be submitted using the ‘</span><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow \, sans-serif"">Strategic Submission
Form</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">’</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(see attached). Details on NPL’s strategic and framework partnership universities can be found at:
</span><a href="http://www.npl.co.uk/university-collaborations/"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.npl.co.uk/university-collaborations/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.<br>
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A further five iCASE awards will be open to all NPL science areas collaborating with any appropriate university partner where it would deem appropriate to have a joint iCASE / doctoral studentship. Such iCASE proposals are to be submitted using the ‘</span><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow \, sans-serif"">Generic
Submission Form</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">’</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(see attached).<br>
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All ‘<b><i>strategic</i></b>’ and ‘<b><i>generic</i></b>’ iCASE proposals will be assessed against the standard criteria NPL scientific research project assessment criteria. The announcement posted on the NPL intranet provides links to both submission forms,
with the timetable for the NPL 2017-18 iCASE studentship allocation being as follows:<br>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%">NPL bids submission deadline.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%">NPL internal awards announced.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Further information from EPSRC related to these iCASE studentships is available via the following link:
</span><a href="http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/skills/students/coll/icase/"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/skills/students/coll/icase/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Submissions should be sent to myself (Amir Kayani) by 7<sup>th</sup> Oct 2016.</span></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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