Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, GB and other funders: Equality, diversity and inclusion in the energy research community

22/07/2021

04/11/2021

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, through the Network Plus scheme, invites applications for its equality, diversity and inclusion in the energy research community call. This supports building a community within energy research focused on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and accessibility. The network should aim to establish a new interdisciplinary community of energy researchers, focused on EDI and with links across the academic remit. In particular, this community is expected to include researchers from relevant areas of the social sciences, in order to facilitate delivery of maximum impact. The grants should be national in reach and the leadership team should represent a new collaboration. Up to £1 million of funding is available funding 80 per cent of the full economic costs for between three to four years. The full economic cost of individual proposals is therefore limited to £1.25m.

In particular, the Network Plus should seek to establish relationships with relevant UKRI investments and institutes across the energy research landscape, as well as other appropriate stakeholders across both academia and industry.

The principal investigator must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at the lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible organisation, which may be a higher education institution, a research institute funded by a research council or an independent research organisation. The principal investigator must currently be working within the energy community with a track record of working on EDI projects or working on EDI related research with a track record of working on promoting positive research culture. No more than eight co-investigators should be included in the application. Junior academics and those with non-traditional backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. Fellowship holders can apply providing they have a permanent contract or their contract extends beyond the duration of the proposed research project if they hold a UKRI, Royal Society or Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages or hold fellowships under other schemes.