BBSRC new investigator award: applicant-led mode (Grant)

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Word limit: 550In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for example: opinion-formers policymakers the public the wider research community Guidance for writing a summary Clearly describe your proposed work in terms of: context the challenge the project addresses aims and objectives potential applications and benefits Core team List the key members of your team and assign them roles from the following: project lead (PL) project co-lead (UK) (PcL) specialist professional enabling staff research and innovation associate technician researcher co-lead (RcL) Only list one individual as project lead.UKRI has introduced a new addition to the ‘Specialist’ role type. Public contributors such as people with lived experience can now be added to an application. Find out more about UKRI’s core team roles in funding applications . Application questions BBSRC schemes Word limit: 1 Indicate the scheme through which you are applying. In the text box, copy the number corresponding to the scheme you are applying through. These are: new investigator (no additional scheme) new investigator and Industrial Partnership Award (IPA) new investigator and LINK Additional guidance This is for administrative purposes to help the initial application processing. Please follow the scheme specific guidance below. Upload as a single PDF ensuring it is no larger than 8MB.IPA or LINK: a letter from your institution’s technology transfer office outlining the management of outputs from the proposed research BBSRC remit classification Word limit: 1Your application will be considered by one of our four research committees made up of independent experts. Indicate which you feel would be best placed to assess your application. In the text box, write only the letter (in uppercase) corresponding to the committee you feel would be best placed to assess your application. These are:A animal disease, health and welfare B plants, microbes, food and sustainability C genes, development, and science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) approaches to biology D molecules, cells and industrial biotechnology Additional guidance This is for administrative purposes to help the initial application processing. We will check your choice and make a final decision as to which committee will assess your application. Vision Word limit: 550What are you hoping to achieve with your proposed work? What the assessors are looking for in your response Explain how your proposed work: is of excellent quality and importance within or beyond the field(s) or area(s) has the potential to advance current understanding, or generate new knowledge, thinking or discovery within or beyond the field or area is timely given current trends, context, and needs impacts world-leading research, society, the economy, or the environment References may be included within this section. You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service. Approach Word limit: 3,300How are you going to deliver your proposed work? What the assessors are looking for in your response We expect you to show how your approach: is effective and appropriate to achieve your objectives is feasible, and comprehensively identifies any risks to delivery and how they will be managed uses a clearly written and transparent methodology (if applicable) summarises the previous work and describes how this will be built upon and progressed (if applicable) will maximise translation of outputs into outcomes and impacts describes how your, and if applicable your team’s, research environment (in terms of the place and relevance to the project) will contribute to the success of the work Within the ‘Approach’ section we also expect you to provide a detailed and comprehensive project plan including milestones and timelines in the form of an embedded Gantt chart or similar (please make sure to check sizing and readability of the image using ‘read view’ prior to submission).BBSRC’s action plan for EDI outlines our commitment to removing barriers to participation in our programmes, ensuring investments do not inadvertently prevent access or usage by individuals from minority groups, for example disabled researchers. To this end, applications should identify how accessibility and inclusiveness in the widest sense have been incorporated into the design of the project. For example, you may wish to reference relevant institutional strategies and policies which support equality, diversity, and inclusion as they relate to access to equipment and facilities and indicate how the proposed project has been designed and will be delivered with broad access in mind. References may be included within this section. You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service. Applicant and team capability to deliver Word limit: 1,650Why are you the right individual or team to successfully deliver the proposed work? What the assessors are looking for in your response Evidence of how you, and if relevant your team, have: the relevant experience (appropriate to career stage) the right balance of skills and expertise the appropriate leadership and management skills and your approach to develop others contributed to developing a positive research environment and wider community You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service. The word limit for this section is 1,650 words: 1,150 words to be used for Résumé for Research and Innovation (R4RI) modules (including references) and, if necessary, a further 500 words for Additions. Use the R4RI format to showcase the range of relevant skills you and, if relevant, your team (project lead and project co-leads, researchers, technicians, specialists, partners and so on) have and how this will help deliver the proposed work. You can include individuals’ specific achievements but only choose past contributions that best evidence their ability to deliver this work. Complete this section using the R4RI module headings listed. Use each heading once and include a response for the whole team, see the UKRI guidance on R4RI . You should consider how to balance your answer, and emphasise where appropriate the key skills each team member brings: contributions to the generation of new ideas, tools, methodologies, or knowledge the development of others and maintenance of effective working relationships contributions to the wider research and innovation community contributions to broader research or innovation users and audiences and towards wider societal benefit Additions Provide any further details relevant to your application. This section is optional and can be up to 500 words. You should not use it to describe additional skills, experiences, or outputs, but you can use it to describe any factors that provide context for the rest of your R4RI (for example, details of career breaks if you wish to disclose them). Complete this as a narrative. Do not format it like a CV. References may be included within this section. Please note, you may want to evidence your approach to develop others by referring to appropriate training and career development opportunities. The roles in funding applications policy has descriptions of the different project roles. You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service. Research organisation support Word limit: 1,000What support will be provided by the research organisation for your new investigator award? What the assessors are looking for in your response Considering your career trajectory and how the support offered forms a cohesive career development package for you, provide a clear statement of commitment and support from the research organisation to you and the project, covering: how your expertise fits within the wider interest and strategies of the research organisation and department development and training opportunities to be provided and how they form a cohesive career development package tailored to you mentoring and support arrangements proposed and how they are appropriate to you, include the name of any current or future mentors financial support to be provided, including the contribution to your salary, and how this improves the application Please note, additional financial support from the host organisation beyond any 20% FEC contribution is not a requirement for the New Investigator Scheme, applications will not be penalised during assessment for lacking additional financial support packages or similar. Applicant fit to the funding opportunity Word limit: 500How do you consider yourself eligible for this funding opportunity? What the assessors are looking for in your response Give a clear description of why you are eligible for funding through this funding opportunity and according to the specific expectations of the council to which you are applying. In your response you should consider, where relevant, that: you are eligible if you have already been a project co-lead on a successful grant application you must not have received, or currently be in receipt of, competitively obtained research or support funding from any source as a project lead where such funding includes or included research and innovation associate staff support costs. This includes grants associated with fellowships you must notify BBSRC of grant funding requests where the results are not known at the time of submission, but which are subsequently successful you may submit only one new investigator application to this BBSRC funding opportunity at a time. You must wait until a decision has been