Discovery Science Standard and New Investigator Call Closing January 2022
The next closing date for the Discovery Science (DS) Standard grant and New Investigator call is 16.00 on 18 January 2022. The call is now live on the UKRI Funding Finder and can be found here.
Following a successful trial as part of the Pushing the Frontiers call pilot, NERC is reducing the paperwork requirements for this call. This will reduce the burden on the applicants, project partners and research offices. Equally, it will reduce the application paperwork that goes out to reviewers and panel members during the peer review process.
This is an early step in the move to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy in the peer review process. Further changes will follow as UKRI and NERC seek to reduce the paperwork across other calls and move to the new UKRI funding system that is in development.
Applicants and Research Officers should note particularly that the requirements for what can be submitted through JeS has changed considerably from previous calls. Please refer to the UKRI Funding Finder webpage for full details.
In brief, the application document requirements are:
- Case for support – maximum of 7 sides - 2 sides of previous track record and capability to deliver and 5 sides for proposed research.
- Justification of resources – maximum of 2 sides
- Facility forms – as required where the use of a NERC facility is being requested
- Non-UK components (if the proposal is being submitted under a Lead Agency Agreement)
- A proposal cover letter can be attached where required, for internal use only
Please do NOT submit CVs, Letters of support, Outline data management plans or Equipment quotes.
Research Excellence remains the primary criterion for the assessment of the call. Five pages of the case for support are available to explain the proposed project. This reduces space for detailed methodology expansion, but allows more focus on the scientific benefit of the proposed project. Reviewers will be advised not to reduce their score due to technical detail missing from the shorter project description and to focus on the excellence of the scientific proposal.
CVs should not be attached and two sides of the case for support should be used to explain how the team proposing the project (including any project partners) have the skills and expertise to achieve the outcomes. This can include a small number of publications that are relevant to the proposed project. We are committed to DORA and you should not quote journal-based metrics as evidence.
Further information is available in the new (October 2021) version of the Research Grants handbook.
Any enquiries should be sent to researchgrants@nerc.ukri.org.
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