Embedding skills in your research proposal

Embedding skills in your research proposal

ERA Skills is keen to actively support bids that are being submitted by our partner institutions. If you would like a meeting with our Skills Manager so we can tailor the support we provide to meet your requirements please email Lennie Foster (L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk).

The main support we can offer is:

  • Introduction to potential academic collaborators and partners.
  • Brokering introductions and fostering relationships with industrial partners.
  • Provision of skill specific text that can be incorporated into bids.
  • Providing advice and guidance on best practise in skills delivery (in conjunction with C-DICE).
  • Supply letters of support for proposals involving recruitment of PhD students and/or post-doctoral researchers whose work pertains to energy or the transition to a net zero society.
  • Post-doctoral researchers LoS will come via C-DICE.
  • Can tailor LoS to your needs.

Key information in letters of support

If your proposals involving recruitment of PhD students

ERA Skills provides opportunities over and above those available to researchers based at individual institutions, and the approximate value of participating as a doctoral member of ERA skills is £1,500 per year.

If your proposals involving recruitment of post-docs

C-DICE provides unique researcher development opportunities over and above those available to researchers based at individual institutions, the in-kind contribution of enabling PDRAs to participate as a post-doctoral member of C-DICE is approximately £2,500 per year per PDRA. Engaging with C-DICE not only enhances the development of researchers employed on the project but also provide routes to dissemination of outputs across a well-established network of university and industrial representatives.

ERA Skills additional benefits for researchers

Proposals involving recruitment of PhD students

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  • ERA Skills provides opportunities over and above those available to researchers based at individual institutions, and the approximate value of participating as a doctoral member of ERA skills is £1,500 per year.

Proposals involving recruitment of post-docs

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  • To participate as a post-doctoral member of C-DICE is approximately £2,500 per year per PDRA.
  • C-DICE provides unique researcher development opportunities over and above those available at individual institutions.
  • C-DICE provides routes for project dissemination across well-established network.
  • The network includes university and industrial representatives.

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