 Outputs of EPSRC hosted regional community engagement meetings
EPSRC Executive Chair, Professor Lynn Gladden, has completed a nationwide series of Town Meetings to engage with people from across sectors on all aspects of EPSRC’s portfolio, including its new Delivery Plan.
To view footage from Professor Lynn Gladden's presentation and other resources please visit the EPSRC website using the link below.
Research Office Secondment Projects
EPSRC is working in partnership with universities through a number of Research Office Secondments with projects looking at improving the contents of call documents; supporting peer review assessment; and realising Pathways to Impact. A survey has just been launched, as part of these projects, to gather input from EPSRC applicants, reviewers and panellists.
The analysis of survey responses will help to identify one or more activities to pilot in the latter stages of the projects, and best practice will be shared between Research Organisations. The outcomes of the projects will be shared in Spring 2020.
Any questions about this survey, which closes on 11th December 2019, should be addressed to EPSRCpeerreviewpolicy@epsrc.ukri.org using the subject line "EPSRC Application, Peer Review and Impact Survey".
As well as this survey we will be interviewing individuals and running one or more focus groups on pathways to impact and peer review to gather more detailed data and inform pilot activities. If you would be interested in taking part in either of these, or in finding out more information, please email EPSRCpeerreviewpolicy@epsrc.ukri.org using the subject line “EPSRC Application, Peer Review and Impact follow on”.
Fellowship Scheme updates
 Our fellowships webpages were restructured and updated in October 2019. These updates included the following changes to the previously published information:
- The person specification has been removed and replaced with a statement setting out the expected aims and outcomes of the fellowship for each career stage;
- The assessment criteria have been separated, with 5 covered at prioritisation panel (matching those covered on standard mode proposals) and 4 at the interview stage (which have been rearticulated from the previous assessment criteria for clarity on requirements).
- Full details are included within the downloadable Fellowships Application Guide.
 EPSRC sponsors evening event at Global Grand Challenges Summit
The Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS) is jointly hosted by the UK, US, and Chinese academies of Engineering and is held biannually in one of those three countries. The UK has hosted the GGCS in 2013 and again in 2019. This year (2019) the Summit was held in London from 16-18 September and was organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng). The Summit’s theme was Engineering in an unpredictable world and the subthemes included Will AI and other transformational technologies change humanity for the better? and Can we sustain 10 billion people? and it was attended by approximately 1200 engineering, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and policy makers.
EPSRC sponsored this year’s Summit by hosting an evening event, entitled EPSRC Engineering Research for Grand Challenges. Sixteen EPSRC funded projects participated, consisting of the following:
- Four Frontier Engineering projects - announced at the inaugural GGCS in 2013, Frontier Engineering projects aimed to bring leading engineers and scientists together to deliver ambitious and long-term engineering research to address major societal challenges facing our world.
- Five Engineering Grand Challenges projects - inspired by the themes of the inaugural Global Grand challenges Summit in 2013, Engineering Grand Challenge projects aimed to tackle engineering challenges facing our future.
- Seven Global Challenges Research Fund projects – tackling global development challenges through engineering and digital technology research.
EPSRC’s evening event at the GGCS welcomed over 500 GGCS delegates and was successfully executed.
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