[Academic] FW: Funding opportunities

[Catherine Cheshire]

Message sent on behalf of Michael Strain


Dear all,

I would like to highlight two funding calls that may of interest.  Details are appended below.

Best wishes,
Michael


Pre-announcement: EPSRC Quantum Technologies Career Acceleration Fellowships
Opening date: February 2024
Total fund: £14,000,000
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/epsrc-quantum-technologies-career-acceleration-fellowships/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

The QT fellowships are aimed at high potential early career researchers, with the objective to accelerate their careers to become world-leading researchers. The QT fellowships will provide between three to five years of funding to deliver an outcome with a significant impact on the Quantum Technologies landscape in the UK.
The full call will be released in February 2024.


Eligibility:

This funding opportunity is for ECRs who are looking to lead their own research programme and further develop their independent research profile within the QT sector. The definition of ECRs is broad and can span from current post-doctoral researchers to those recently appointed to their first permanent academic.
There is no requirement:

  *   to hold a PhD for this fellowship due to the diversity of career paths in QT. However, if you do not hold a PhD, you must be able to demonstrate equivalent research or training
  *   regarding the length of postdoctoral experience or length of relevant work experience to be considered an "early-career researcher"
You should provide sufficient evidence to support your application during peer review and panel interview to demonstrate you are in the early-career stage and the award of your fellowship will achieve the objectives of this funding opportunity.
This funding opportunity is open to national and international candidates who are based at UK research organisations eligible for UKRI funding. It is expected that fellowships will be hosted at a UK research institution and held at a minimal level of 50% FTE. EPSRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost. Full details on eligibility can be found in Who Can Apply section when the funding opportunity is opened.


The call is not demand-managed and there is no internal candidate selection process. Colleagues in RKES would be happy to support any prospective Fellows with their application development.


STFC Underground Dark Matter Science Experiments
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/future-underground-dark-matter-science-experiments/

This funding opportunity will provide up to £10 million, over five years, to UK groups to conduct dark matter science projects that utilise the Boulby Underground Laboratory space, and which:

  *   align with the recommendations of the Dark Matter Strategic Review 2020 and address the Definition of Dark Matter (below)
  *   align with the current capacity and capability of Boulby Underground Laboratory
  *   present cases that have confirmed feasibility and viability for deployment within Boulby Underground Laboratory. You should approach paul.scovell at stfc.ac.uk<mailto:paul.scovell at stfc.ac.uk> and sean.paling at stfc.ac.uk<mailto:sean.paling at stfc.ac.uk> to discuss proposals and seek confirmation of feasibility
  *   provide short to medium-term scientific return

Medium scale science projects are anticipated to start in spring 2025 and will exploit the Boulby Underground Laboratory facilities to design and deploy an experimental set up to directly detect dark matter signals and are anticipated to span design, installation, commissioning, and operation phases.
This opportunity will not support research and development projects towards Dark Matter.
This funding opportunity will encompass experimental approaches that can be broadly split into complementary routes:

  *   direct searches for particulate (for example, WIMP-like) DM
  *   direct searches for wave-like hidden sector DM
This funding opportunity will not consider:

  *   multidisciplinary projects
  *   research and development grants
  *   projects that are specifically focused on neutrino physics

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