QUEX Institute Strategic Grant Scheme
The QUEX Institute is launching a new flagship Strategic Grant Scheme to provide a higher level of support for one area of shared world-leading excellence and strategic alignment and collaboration to promote a deepening partnership.
How to apply
Submit the application form to QUEX@exeter.ac.uk and globalstrategy@uq.edu.au. Please refer to the attached guidelines and application form for further information regarding the application process, eligibility criteria and key contacts.
Scheme aims
Following on from the ongoing QUEX Workshop and Accelerator Grant Schemes, the Strategic Grant Scheme is intended to support teams that can demonstrate world-leading research at both institutions, strong strategic alignment and clear plans to attract and leverage external funding to achieve long-term collaborative research goals.
The key aims include:
- To facilitate further development of novel research and/or teaching and learning concepts to the point of submission of bid(s) for substantial external funding.
- To facilitate the development or strengthening of industry partnerships.
- To facilitate the project team to develop intellectual property, publish research, influence national/international policy and/or achieve impact in other ways.
- To support the Institute’s academic training objectives, a postdoctoral position should be built into proposed project teams, to be funded through the Strategic Grant award.
Supported initiatives
Applications must be strategically aligned and demonstrate excellence in one or more of the three QUEX themes:
- Healthy Living
- Global Environment Futures
- Digital Worlds and Disruptive Technologies
Further details regarding these themes can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/quex/themes and www.global-partnerships.uq.edu.au/quex
| Exeter | UQ |
|---|---|
| Healthy Living | |
Professor Rob Anderson | Professor John Cairney Professor John Cairney Head of School, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences E: j.cairney@uq.edu.au |
| Global Environmental Futures | |
| Professor Catriona McKinnon Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics E: C.Mckinnon@exeter. ac.uk | Professor Peter Mumby Dr Sarit Kaserzon |
| Digital Worlds and Disruptive Technologies | |
| Dr James Muldoon Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics E: j.muldoon@exeter.ac.uk | Associate Professor Stephen Viller Associate Professor, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology E: viller@itee.uq.edu.au |
Funding details
We invite applications for a total of up to £200,000 (A$360,000) for projects of two years in length.
Eligibility
The Strategic Grants will be available to the whole academic community at Exeter and UQ.
Eligible cost include:
- Travel and subsistence
- Events and meetings
- Consumables
- Postdoctoral salaries
- Costs of non-academic (research or technical) staff (referred to as ‘directly incurred staff costs’ in the UK). Where funding is requested for research or technical posts that are also partially funded by another grant/ source of funding, please check the terms and conditions of any pre-existing contract to ensure no conflicts of interest.
- Small items of equipment (up to £20,000 or A$36,000).
- Costs must be justified in line with project deliverables and must be approved by the relevant Head of Faculty at both institutions.
Costs that are not eligible include:
- Academic salaries (with the exception of postdoctoral fellow salaries).
- Third-party travel costs
- Publication costs
- Overheads including estates and indirect costs
- Studentship/tuition fees
- Costs associated with internal research facilities