Research Support Fund, Flexible Research Fund and Near Miss Scheme

The Faculty of Science and Engineering has created two funds to support researchers and encourage them to write competitive proposals.

All details can be accessed here

https://qmulprod.sharepoint.com/sites/SEFacultyResearch/SitePages/Research%20support.aspx

Near Miss Scheme for Unsuccessful Grants

The School has introduced a Near Miss Scheme for unsuccessful grant applications. The scheme applies to fellowship or research grant applications providing a total income to QMUL that is costed to be above £100k. Staff whose research grant application marginally fails to be funded will be eligible for an enhanced travel budget. 

A Near Miss is defined as follows:

-          EPSRC grant proposals that are among the first to be rejected [n/2], as shown on the ranked list on Grants on the Web , where n is the number of funded proposals;

-          Fellowship proposals when the PI is invited for an interview with the funder but fails to be awarded;

-          ERC Starting and Consolidator proposals when the PI is invited for an interview in Brussels but fails to be awarded;

-          ERC Advanced proposals when the proposal scores ‘A’ at the step 2 of the evaluation (full proposal evaluation) but does not get awarded. Score ‘A’ is defined as ‘the proposal fully meets the ERC’s excellence criterion and is recommended for funding if sufficient funds are available’.

 The DoR is responsible for interpreting the above rules and for adjudicating on cases not covered above.

The School will reward PIs meeting the above conditions with an increase in their travel budget of £500 for the next financial year.