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Discipline Hopping Grants Scheme
This scheme was administered by the MRC
An annual competition with the application deadline around November each year.
Co-funders
- MRC
- EPSRC
- STFC
Funding total
£1.7M
Number of projects funded
19
A list of awards made by this scheme can be found on the MRC website.
Purpose
Provides short-term support to pump-prime interdisciplinary research, with the aim of fostering longer-term collaborations between engineering and the physical and life sciences.
Key aims
- To encourage researchers to develop imaginative ways of using techniques or expertise from the physical sciences to tackle biological or medical related problems, and vice versa
- To provide contact time between engineers, physical scientists and life scientists by awarding them funds for replacement salaries to ‘buy out’ their own time
- To promote future collaborations and larger-scale interdisciplinary research through the scheme
Contact
Elizabeth Hayes
elizabeth.hayes@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 413366
fax: 01793 413234