The Royal Academy of Engineering is a nonprofit that benefits society, a national academy that fosters progressive leadership, and a fellowship that unites the most accomplished individuals in all fields of engineering and technology.
To assist over 7,500 professionals improve their leadership abilities, they will teach, support, mentor, and financially support the brightest and most brilliant researchers, innovators, and leaders from throughout the engineering profession.
By recognizing the difficulties presented by a constantly shifting environment and developing the abilities and concepts required to create a resilient and diversified engineering career, students will acquire capabilities for the future. They have set themselves the goal of promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace by collaborating with more than 500 technical enterprises and organizations.
The UK Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy is responsible for funding the initiative. (BEIS). The 2023/4 call will be available for 17 weeks, starting on December 13 and ending on April 11, 2023. The entire amount of the award is £2.5 million, to be paid out over ten years at a rate of $250,000. The Academy has the authority to change the overall amount of financing.
Eligibility:
- Applications with alternative dates will not be eligible.
- Applications are welcome from across a broad remit of engineering and technology, including areas currently considered basic science, but now requiring engineering ways of thinking to drive them towards application, and in areas where technologies are well-established but could be significantly improved by novel approaches. Applications must be centered on enabling and driving technological innovation. Therefore, proposals whose vision is primarily around scientific advances for their own sake are not appropriate to this scheme.
- Chairs in Emerging Technologies are professorial appointments. Applicants who haven’t been awarded a professorial title but have demonstrated research achievements such that they would be strongly considered for professorial promotion at present are eligible to apply. In supporting the submission, the university is understood to be affirming this. It is the Academy’s expectation that successful non-professorial awardees gain a Professorial title upon becoming a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technology.
- Evidence of proof of concept should already be established and a clear pathway to future impact described. Beyond this, they are not prescriptive about the Technology Readiness Level or similar assessment of innovation readiness expected of applications. However, they do require a clear ten-year research vision underpinning the proposal that will make a significant difference in how the emerging technology is taken forward and the consequent economic and social benefit to the UK.
Application:
- All applications must be submitted via the Academy’s online Grant Management System.
- Application form (you must first register with the system and create a profile).
- Applicants must get approval and support for their proposal from their Dean/Pro-Vice-Chancellor (or similar), and the research grants office prior to submitting an application. They advise consulting them as soon as possible about a potential application.
- Before applying please read the 2023/4 guidance notes carefully. Applicants are strongly advised to refer to these guidance notes when completing their application.
- Please note: re-submissions are permitted. Please clearly articulate modifications and improvements that have been made, considering the review panel feedback.
