Doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences (grant)
UK Research and Innovation
What it funds
Apply for funding for doctoral focal awards in the field of data-intensive sciences. This funding opportunity builds on Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)’s previous investment, providing students with skills and training to enable careers in academia or industry. This funding opportunity is harmonised under UK Research and Innovation Doctoral Focal Awards scheme.You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding.STFC will fund at 100% for doctoral focal awar
Who can apply
This funding opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility, Check if your organisation is eligible.Who is eligible to applyUK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has introduced new role types for funding opportunities being run on the new UKRI Funding Service.For full details, visit Eligibility as an individual.STFC facilities cannot host a centre in their own right but can support and collaborate as partners where appropriate.We expect doctoral focal awards to have active support and engagement with industrial and project partners. Whilst they do not have to be financially supporting awards, we do expect industrial representation to be listed on the management board and continued engagement throughout the awards.Industrial partners cannot apply to host a centre and must partner with an eligible UK research organisation.Project lead and project co-leadsResearch organisations can only apply as the project lead on one submitted application but can be a project co-lead (PcL) or project partner on any number of applications. The project lead organisation will act as the training grant holder if you are successful.Project lead organisations will provide the principal base (h
How to apply
Click https://funding-service.ukri.org/OPP1048/apply/1079 in the UKRI Funding Service to apply. We are running this funding opportunity on the new UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Funding Service so please ensure that your organisation is registered. You cannot apply on the Joint Electronic Submissions (Je-S) system.The project lead is responsible for completing the application process on the Funding Service, but we expect all team members and project partners to contribute to the application.Only the lead research organisation can submit an application to UKRI.To applySelect ‘Start application’ near the beginning of this Funding finder page.Confirm you are the project lead.Sign in or create a Funding Service account. To create an account, select your organisation, verify your email address, and set a password.Answer questions directly in the text boxes. You can save your answers and co
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