EPSRC: New investigator award

29/07/2021

30/10/2021

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites applications for its new investigator award. This supports individuals who have recently acquired their first academic lectureship position but have not previously led an academic research group or been the recipient of a significant grant. Projects should be self-contained and comprise a single research vision. Supported projects may last one to three years.

Physical Sciences and Engineering

Applicants must be academic employees at lecturer or equivalent level based at an eligible institution in the UK. Those with fixed term appointments may apply if their contract extends beyond the end date of the proposed research and the host research organisation provides the applicant with the support they would normally offer a permanent employee. Current holders of postdoctoral level fellowships are not eligible to hold EPSRC research grants. Applicants who are employed in a staff post on a research grant are eligible if they hold an early-career fellowship and their university gives them the same stature as a permanent academic member of staff. Applications to this scheme must be the applicant’s first to EPSRC as a principal investigator. Applicants may only apply once, whether successful or not. Those who have previously received over £20,000 funding for equipment or research grants worth over £100,000 will have their application assessed on a case by case basis.