[Academic] Fwd: EPSRC Equipment Sharing Initiatives Consultation

[Rob Martin]

Dear All,

Please see below for information on an EPSRC consultation on equipment 
sharing .... read no further if not for you.
If equipment sharing is relevant to you please fill in the questionnaire 
- it seems to be an individual thing.

Regards,

Rob


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Subject: 	EPSRC Equipment Sharing Initiatives Consultation
Date: 	Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:04:55 +0100
From: 	Nathanal Wand (EPSRC, Capabilty) <Nathaniel.Wand at epsrc.ac.uk>
To: 	Robert Martin <r.w.martin at strath.ac.uk>



Dear Prof Martin

EPSRC is currently carrying out a review of its equipment sharing 
initiatives, to ensure they fulfil the needs of the research community. 
As part of this it is undertaking an online consultation that can be 
found here: http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/epsrc/esis (along with more 
details of current initiatives).

To ensure the relevant research community is consulted I am contacting 
you as a head of a department that currently holds a number of high 
value EPSRC grants, within the Engineering or Physical Sciences areas 
(the most relevant areas for equipment sharing of this type), and/or a 
department that has heavily used EPSRC equipment sharing initiatives in 
the past.

Although EPSRC supports a number of schemes already, (and for instance 
is committed to supporting the Engineering Instrument Loan Pool 
(http://www.eip.rl.ac.uk/) due to the outcome of the mid-range 
facilities review), it is important to ensure that they still provide 
the most appropriate services possible, as well as identifying important 
gaps in current provisions. Funding for equipment from EPSRC is 
available if a strategic requirement can be shown.

Hence I would be grateful if you could pass the survey on to relevant 
researchers within your department. This is their chance to shape future 
EPSRC strategy and the scope of future initiatives, and so I would 
expect a large number of responses – if you have had experiences of 
research stalling due to lack of equipment or training then this is your 
chance to let EPSRC know, so it can do something about it.

If you are not the right person to contact about this, then I would 
appreciate it if you could let me know. The survey will close on 
September 9^th .

Please don’t hesitate to get back to me with any questions you may have.

Kind Regards,

Nathaniel Wand

EPSRC Capability Delivery – Engineering

Phone: 01793 444297

Pioneering research and skills www.epsrc.ac.uk 
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