The University of Nottingham has been chosen to pilot a new national funding scheme that will offer the most outstanding doctoral students a first step on the path to an independent research career.
The University is one of just 14 higher education institutions across the country invited to take part in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) PhD Plus Fellowships 2009.Under the scheme, it will receive a grant of £350,000 which will fund seven fellowships to the most gifted postdoctoral students working in the fields of science, engineering and technology and some areas of medicine.
The fellowships will offer successful applicants to the scheme one year’s salary and an additional £15,000 grant, which could be used to increase the impact of work completed as part of their PhD. For example, this could include providing time to complete key publications resulting from the PhD research, exploring resources or funding to visit other research groups, enabling knowledge transfer activities or funding outreach activities.
Professor Claire O’Malley, Dean of the Graduate School at The University of Nottingham, said: “The additional support offered by these new fellowships will give some of our most promising research stars of the future the opportunity to develop work initially carried out for their PhD and, hopefully, their first step on the ladder to a successful academic career.”
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