GLOBAL CHALLENGES RESEARCH FUND JESS HENDON

RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT TEAM

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New Investment

• Resource and capital allocation

for FY 2016-17 to 2019/20

defined

• Resource allocation rises in cash

terms (level in real terms)

• Includes £1.5b new GCRF

GCRF

• Address global challenges

through disciplinary and

interdisciplinary research

• Strengthening capability for

research and innovation, within

both UK and developing

countries

• UK Aid Strategy

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Challenges

manifest in

developing

countries

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RCUK Investment Profile

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Accessing early GCRF

funds

• Multiple calls from research

councils Summer 2016

• Institutional Awards

• BBSRC IAA ~£150K

• ESRC IAA ~£40K

• EPSRC ~£200K

• First collective fund call Autumn

2016

‘Growing research capability to

meet the challenges faced by

developing countries’

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RCUK STRATEGY FOR FUTURE INVESTMENT

CORE

Areas with a strong UK research community, closely engaged with developing world challenges, often actively engaged with UK and international partners and making a significant global contribution. Examples include infectious diseases, crops for developing world, development studies.

STRETCH

Areas with a strong research community, but not strongly orientated to developing world contexts, examples include clean energy or industrial biotechnology where the opportunity for developing world is considerable but nascent.

Also renewal and growth in capability through targeted new blood and early career investment. Careful consideration of the opportunities and implications of supporting new capability overseas.

TRANSFORMATIONAL

All challenge topics benefit from a multidisciplinary approach. However, it is particularly suited to multidimensional “wicked” challenges seeking new insights or needing radical approaches. Examples include the consequences for developing world of climate change, demographic shifts, economic development, rapid urbanisation and conflict.

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Forward Investment Profile

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UNIVERSITY OF YORK AND GCRF

New UoY GCRF Steering Group

• Expertise and cross-faculty representation

Profiling examples of our research

Building on our strengths and exploring the possibilities

• Workshop

• Networks

• Priming money

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Accessing early GCRF

funds

• Multiple calls from research

councils Summer 2016

• Institutional Awards

• BBSRC IAA ~£150K

• ESRC IAA ~£40K

• EPSRC ~£200K

• First collective fund call Autumn

2016

‘Growing research capability to

meet the challenges faced by

developing countries’

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EPSRC message

• Good feedback on our GCRF

response so far

• GCRF research at York is real

genuine about making a

difference

• Money EPSRC has for GCRF will

be focused on EPSRC space –

gearing up community

• Real interdisciplinary stuff will

be Collective Fund

• First collective fund call

Autumn 2016

‘Growing research capability to

meet the challenges faced by

developing countries’

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Steering Group

• Identify areas/ideas for development for future

York-led interdisciplinary & transformational

GCRF-funded programmes of research

• Inform institutional research strategy in this

area (URC recent paper)

• Inform direction of spend for GCRF institutional

funding and related internal funds

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FIND OUT MORE – WORK WITH NETWORKS Direct and queries to

gcrf@york.ac.uk (RDT, IRO, RGC)

• Staff webpages

Use and work with existing networks

and centres

- New International Development

Network -

https://www.york.ac.uk/idn/

idn@york.ac.uk

cDRCs / Dept Research Facilitators &

Support

Experts in your department

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FUNDING / BUILDING NEW PARTNERSHIPS

BBSRC GCRF IAA

• Now allocated

N8 AgriFood Resilience Programme (www.n8agrifood.ac.uk)

• Pump-priming

Connect with other research programmes & networks

• New & existing

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GCRF IN FOCUS AT YORK SEPTEMBER 2016