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<p class="MsoNormal">***apologies if you receive this more than once***<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt"><span style="color:black">The
</span><a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/index.page?">Web Science Institute</a><span style="color:black"> has been granted an £80,000 Research Collaboration Stimulus Fund for 2019-20.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt">The focus of the Fund is on facilitating research collaborations
<b>that engage with non-academic partners</b>. The Fund aims to stimulate and pump-prime interdisciplinary research activity across Faculties that will ultimately lead to collaborations and the development of full research grant or contracts proposals with
non-academic partners. Projects arising will be externally-funded either directly, or the collaboration with the non-academic partner(s) will be leveraged through public funding sources, either national or international.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt">Successful projects will be awarded funding normally within the range of £5k to £15k.<span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:12.75pt">The <span style="color:black">
research projects should fulfil the following criteria:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Involve collaboration between disciplines, and applications that are cross-Faculty will be strongly favoured</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Facilitate research collaborations and engagement with
</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">non-academic partners<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lead to the development of full research grant or contracts proposals with
</span><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">non-academic </span>
<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">partners<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Knowledge of and commitment to Web Science, Data Science and/or AI for Future Society<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Applications are particularly encouraged in one or more of the following themes:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3">Security and AI (risk, trust, governance)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3">Making Smart Fair (inclusion, diversity)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3">AI and Social Transformation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3">Data for Public Good<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Applications may be made from staff in any Faculty at the University of Southampton and should be submitted
<b>electronically in PDF format to Susan Davies </b></span><a href="mailto:sdd1@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank"><b>sdd1@soton.ac.uk</b></a><b><span style="color:black"> by 5pm on Friday
</span>11<span style="color:black"> October 2019. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">An awards panel comprising the Web Science Institute Directors will rank proposals and make final funding decisions within two weeks of the closing date. Funding will be available from 1 November 2019.
<b>All expenditure must be completed by 31 July 2020.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please see the attached application form, which includes guidelines on submitting proposals and conditions of funding.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Susan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">__________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Susan Davies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Coordination Manager,
<a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/index.page?">Web Science Institute</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University Liaison Manager,
<a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/alan-turing-institute/alan-turing-institute.page">
The Alan Turing Institute</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Room 3041, Building 32<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web Science Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Southampton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Southampton SO17 1BJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">023 8059 3523 | 07768 266464<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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