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Dear colleagues
The purpose of this announcement is to keep members of the UCT research community informed about news and funding opportunities in the research space. All new funding opportunities can also be found on the current funding opportunities page of the Research Support Hub.
In this newsletter:
Noticeboard
Funding opportunities and funder announcements
Research capacity building
Noticeboard
On the Research Announcement noticeboard, we share news and items of interest from the UCT Research Office.
eRA production system weekly downtime
Please note that the eRA production system is unavailable every week between 16:00 on Wednesday evening and 08:30 on Thursday morning. Please ensure that you are completely logged out of the system
before this time.
This is to ensure that the system resources are freed up for maintenance activities.
Funding opportunities and funder announcements
Visit the current funding opportunities page on the Research Support Hub to view all open funding opportunities.
Call for applications: 2023 SA-Brazil Scientific Seminars (focusing on Humanities and Social Sciences)
UCT internal deadline: 17 July 2023
The aim of the NRF-FAPESP (SA-Brazil) International Scientific Seminars (ISS) is to fund the organisation of small (maximum 20 people) three-day scientific meetings and bring together groups of early-career researchers and established
researchers from South Africa and the State of Sao Paulo in Brazil for scientific discussion, collaboration and knowledge transfer.
The scientific meetings must demonstrate a clear strategy for a longer-term collaboration and an expected outcome is to foster the establishment of a Community of Practice (CoP) in the Humanities and Social Sciences fields. For more information,
click here.
Queries may be directed to Robyn Udemans.
Call for applications: South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Self-initiated Research grants
programme
Deadline: 31 May 2023
The SAMRC is pleased to announce the 2023 call for applications for funding under the Self-initiated Research (SIR) grants programme. The SIR programme is designed to support original research initiated by a researcher at a recognised research
institution.
This funding opportunity encourages research geared towards generating high quality new knowledge, new medical products, improved or enhanced medical/health practice, effective health promotion strategies or improved health policy and/or functioning
of the national health systems.
The Faculty of Health Sciences Research Development team will be hosting an information session on Tuesday, 6 June. Please click here to register for the webinar.
Please see more information and further details here and here.
Reminder: Call for applications for Wellcome career
development awards
First deadline: UCT's intention to submit form, 30 May 2023
The Wellcome career development awards scheme is soliciting applications from mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative
programmes of work, and deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.
Research proposals may be in any discipline — including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health — as long as it has the
potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with the Wellcome Trust’s funding remit.
For more information, click
here.
Reminder: Call for applications for Wellcome discovery awards
First deadline: UCT's intention to submit form: 29 May 2023
The Wellcome Discovery awards scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health
and wellbeing.
Research proposals can be in any discipline — including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health — as long as it has the
potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with the Wellcome Trust's funding remit.
Eligibility
The call is open to established researchers who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas. You must aim to make a major contribution to your research field by:
- generating significant shifts in understanding and/or
- developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research
For more information, click here.
Reminder: Call for DHET creative research outputs submissions
The Research Office invites research staff to submit their 2020, 2021 and 2022 creative research outputs for submission to the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). This process results in the DHET awarding subsidies to UCT for
creative research outputs in the following subfields: fine and visual arts; music, theatre, performance and dance; design; film and television; and literary arts.
More information, including guidelines, processes and resources can be found here.
Reminder: Call for applications for UCT Enabling Grant Seeker Excellence awards
The call for applications for the UCT Enabling Grant Seeker Excellence awards is open. In the context of an unpredictable national research funding environment, the purpose of this intervention is to encourage applications to external –
particularly international – funders as well as multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary research collaborations. By allocating fractional funding based on grant submission without waiting for the successful outcome, seed funding is provided to enable
immediate progress. Please see the call document which contains a link to the application form.
Queries can be directed to Robyn Udemans.
Research capacity building
Below are events, workshops and webinars that offer capacity-building opportunities for the UCT research community.
Invitation: Science communication workshop hosted by The Conversation Africa and
UCT
5 June 2023, 11:30 (SAST)
Research visibility matters for researchers. Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is vital. But it is also important to disseminate your research findings beyond academia.
This workshop, hosted by The Conversation Africa and UCT, will help you translate your research into easy to understand material that can gain global exposure and reach policymakers.
Please note that this workshop is only open to PhD candidates, post-docs and academics.
Register here.
The Research Announcement is produced by the Research Office, University of Cape Town.
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