[Turing-Southampton] Call for applications for WSI Research Collaboration Stimulus Fund 2020-21

[Alison Tebbutt]

***apologies if you receive this more than once***

WSI Research Collaboration Stimulus Fund 2020-21
The Web Science Institute<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/index.page?> has been granted an £80,000 Research and Collaboration Stimulus Fund<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/research/research_collaboration_stimulus_fund.page> for 2020-21.
The focus of the Fund is on facilitating research collaborations that engage with non-academic partners.  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.
Funding:
Successful projects will be awarded funding normally within the range of £5k to £15k. Projects may start from 1 December 2020.  All expenditure must be completed by 31 July 2021.
Application deadline:     Friday 6 November 2020
Project criteria:
The research projects should fulfil the following criteria:

·        Involve collaboration between disciplines, and applications that are cross-Faculty will be strongly favoured

·        Facilitate research collaborations and engagement with non-academic partners

·        Lead to the development of full research grant or contracts proposals with non-academic partners

·        Knowledge of and commitment to Web Science, Data Science and/or AI for Future Society

·        Applications are particularly encouraged in one or more of the following themes:
·        Alignment with one of the following themes:
·        Security and AI (risk, trust, governance)
·        Making Smart Fair (ethics, inclusion, diversity)
·        AI and Social Transformation (data for public good)
·        Health and Wellbeing
·        The New Knowledge Economy
·        Smart Cities, Intelligent Communities
·        Web, AI and Public Deliberation
If you have an idea which falls outside of these themes, please contact us for further guidance.

You can find a link to previously funded projects here<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/research/research_collaboration_stimulus_fund.page>.

How to apply:
We welcome applications from staff in any Faculty at the University of Southampton, particularly from disciplines that are under-represented. Please see the attached application form, which includes guidelines on submitting proposals and conditions of funding.

Applications should be submitted electronically in PDF format to Alison Tebbutt (amt4 at soton.ac.uk<mailto:amt4 at soton.ac.uk> ) by 5pm on Friday 6 November 2020.
Final funding decisions will be made within two weeks of the closing date.

Kind regards

Alison

Alison Tebbutt
Programme Manager
CDT in Web Science Innovation
Web Science Institute
B32, Room 3057
Highfield Campus

Email: amt4 at soton.ac.uk<mailto:amt4 at soton.ac.uk>
www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi<http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi>


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