[Fellows-Southampton] update on Turing funding

[Simperl E.]

Hi guys,

I've attended a staff meeting at the Turing on Monday about the two large sources of funding they have recently secured. I hope the recording and slides will be made available soon. @Susan, perhaps you can ask Allaine to send them to us?

The meeting presented two large funding programmes at the Turing, one on AI for Science and Government (SPF, 40 million £, led by EPSRC) and one on AI and digital humanities (funded by AHRC, 9 million £, led by the Turing, with the British Libraries and several universities).

The SPF funding is structured according to six themes (healthcare, government, science, cities, digital twins, and tools/engineering). 

Themes and projects were defined early 2018, when the bid was submitted. For Universities that joined later like us there are nevertheless opportunities to engage and contribute:

- themes are going to organise workshops to define research roadmaps and in some cases further projects (especially for the 3rd, 4th and 5th year of the funding). There is a workshop for health in Manchester on March 7th and 8th and another one for science (focus on environment as far as I understood) on February 21st (location TBC). Other themes will announce workshops as well.

- themes will organise data study groups and are looking for volunteers for new data study group. My understanding is that one outcome of the SPF funding is that the Turing has access to extremely valuable data resources for all themes, which could be exploited across the network

The Turing team also encourages pilot PIs who are not involved with SPF funded projects but think their pilot is relevant to a theme to get in touch with the theme leader to explore synergies.

In the absence of slides, I have taken screenshots of some slides which list the theme leaders, operational team of the SPF funding and ways to engage. I hope I will have more details to share with you in due time, especially about the projects currently funded.

Elena

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University of Southampton
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