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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">***APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MORE THAN ONCE***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Please see below an email from the Turing Institute. If you are interested in being part of a NERC collaborative bid, please let me know
<b>by Tuesday 18 December</b>, so that I can feed this back to the Turing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Susan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Susan Davies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Turing University Liaison Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Web Science Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Southampton<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Southampton SO17 1BJ<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">T +44 (0)23 8059 3523<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">M +44 (0)7768 266464<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">The Natural Environment Research Council have announced their latest round of ‘highlight topics’ for funding. I’m reaching out to you, to gauge interest in applying for these schemes
as part of our Turing network, acknowledging that there is expertise in a number of these areas across the university partners. Please let me know if you would be interested in being part of a collaborative bid and if you have a particular area you are interested
in. It’s likely that this will be a short turnaround, so if you are interested, can you please let me know by
<b>18<sup>th</sup> December.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I have requested further details from the NERC portfolio manager for the programme, however they have unfortunately responded that there are no further details at this stage, so we will need to proceed without
the full guidance and documentation. The current guidance on the NERC site is<i>: “Notifications of intent are anticipated to be required in January 2019 and the deadline for full proposals is likely to be in March 2019”.</i> The general funding page states
31<sup>st</sup> January. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are currently developing relationships with a number of the NERC research centres and we would be happy to facilitate conversations with partners for you. We see this as an opportunity to develop a collaborative
bid in environmental priority areas, within our emerging AI for Science and humanities theme.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Current details available:</span></b><span style="color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnerc.ukri.org%2Fresearch%2Ffunded%2Fprogrammes%2Fhighlight-topics%2Fnews%2Fhighlight-topics-fifth%2F&data=01%7C01%7CE.Simperl%40soton.ac.uk%7C1f1235e6646c4a37a23108d65ed050dc%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=vMrnmc6g3jHSUx%2FPWc9QeUTzHr9hDQDntCgdQ5eK6kE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://nerc.ukri.org/research/funded/programmes/highlight-topics/news/highlight-topics-fifth/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">“As a result of its ideas process, NERC is pleased to announce the topics that will be offered through its highlight topics programme, following the fifth cut-off for ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The highlight topics in this call will be:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Marine noise pollution: Understanding chronic effects<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Understanding the likelihood and impact of UK wildfires<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Impact of experimental deep-sea mining in the Central Pacific: A new inter-disciplinary challenge for UK environmental science<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Assessing large scale ecological responses to environmental change<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The impact of legacy waste in the coastal zone<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Advancing capabilities to predict UK and European weather conditions one season ahead<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The mineral systems approach to exploration and discovery of new sediment-hosted copper (Co,V) deposits.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Up to £16 million is available for this call. No more than two projects at up to £2 million will be funded for each topic, with the exception of 'Impact of experimental deep-sea mining' where no more than one project
will be funded at up to £4 million. There are more highlight topics than funding is available, so not all highlight topics will necessarily result in funded grants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">An announcement of opportunity will be published shortly. Notifications of intent are anticipated to be required in January 2019 and the deadline for full proposals is likely to be in March 2019.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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