GLOBAL CHALLENGES RESEARCH FUND JESS HENDON RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT TEAM
GLOBAL CHALLENGES RESEARCH FUND JESS HENDON
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT TEAM
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New Investment
• Resource and capital allocation
for FY 2016-17 to 2019/20
defined
• Resource allocation rises in cash
terms (level in real terms)
• Includes £1.5b new GCRF
GCRF
• Address global challenges
through disciplinary and
interdisciplinary research
• Strengthening capability for
research and innovation, within
both UK and developing
countries
• UK Aid Strategy
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Challenges
manifest in
developing
countries
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RCUK Investment Profile
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Accessing early GCRF
funds
• Multiple calls from research
councils Summer 2016
• Institutional Awards
• BBSRC IAA ~£150K
• ESRC IAA ~£40K
• EPSRC ~£200K
• First collective fund call Autumn
2016
‘Growing research capability to
meet the challenges faced by
developing countries’
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RCUK STRATEGY FOR FUTURE INVESTMENT
CORE
Areas with a strong UK research community, closely engaged with developing world challenges, often actively engaged with UK and international partners and making a significant global contribution. Examples include infectious diseases, crops for developing world, development studies.
STRETCH
Areas with a strong research community, but not strongly orientated to developing world contexts, examples include clean energy or industrial biotechnology where the opportunity for developing world is considerable but nascent.
Also renewal and growth in capability through targeted new blood and early career investment. Careful consideration of the opportunities and implications of supporting new capability overseas.
TRANSFORMATIONAL
All challenge topics benefit from a multidisciplinary approach. However, it is particularly suited to multidimensional “wicked” challenges seeking new insights or needing radical approaches. Examples include the consequences for developing world of climate change, demographic shifts, economic development, rapid urbanisation and conflict.
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Forward Investment Profile
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UNIVERSITY OF YORK AND GCRF
New UoY GCRF Steering Group
• Expertise and cross-faculty representation
Profiling examples of our research
Building on our strengths and exploring the possibilities
• Workshop
• Networks
• Priming money
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Accessing early GCRF
funds
• Multiple calls from research
councils Summer 2016
• Institutional Awards
• BBSRC IAA ~£150K
• ESRC IAA ~£40K
• EPSRC ~£200K
• First collective fund call Autumn
2016
‘Growing research capability to
meet the challenges faced by
developing countries’
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EPSRC message
• Good feedback on our GCRF
response so far
• GCRF research at York is real
genuine about making a
difference
• Money EPSRC has for GCRF will
be focused on EPSRC space –
gearing up community
• Real interdisciplinary stuff will
be Collective Fund
• First collective fund call
Autumn 2016
‘Growing research capability to
meet the challenges faced by
developing countries’
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Steering Group
• Identify areas/ideas for development for future
York-led interdisciplinary & transformational
GCRF-funded programmes of research
• Inform institutional research strategy in this
area (URC recent paper)
• Inform direction of spend for GCRF institutional
funding and related internal funds
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FIND OUT MORE – WORK WITH NETWORKS Direct and queries to
[email protected] (RDT, IRO, RGC)
• Staff webpages
Use and work with existing networks
and centres
- New International Development
Network -
https://www.york.ac.uk/idn/
cDRCs / Dept Research Facilitators &
Support
Experts in your department
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FUNDING / BUILDING NEW PARTNERSHIPS
BBSRC GCRF IAA
• Now allocated
N8 AgriFood Resilience Programme (www.n8agrifood.ac.uk)
• Pump-priming
Connect with other research programmes & networks
• New & existing
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GCRF IN FOCUS AT YORK SEPTEMBER 2016