BBSRC strategy advisory panels: member and chair vacancies
Closing date: 10 January 2024 BBSRC are inviting expressions of interest to join a Strategy Advisory Panel (SAP) as a member/chair for: For more details see here and here.
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Job alert! GitLife Biotech are now Recruiting a Bioinformatics Scientist
GitLife Biotech aim to set the global standard in the management of provenance and integrity for biological assets; enabling the potential of synthetic biology to be realised worldwide. They are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and collaborative Bioinformatician, who is able to work under pressure, and quickly embed and …
ADBA National Conference
6 December 2023, Westminster, London ADBA is the UK Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association. Through lobbying activities, meetings with government officials, working groups, high profile industry events, educational material and more, ADBA aims to facilitate the anaerobic digestion industry’s growth. The ADBA National Conference 2023 will seek to shed light …
BBSRC: Food Loss & Waste and beyond: towards a Circular Economy – 29 Nov & 14 Dec ’23 (Register by 5 November)
This BBSRC community engagement event comprises two on-line workshops that will bring together stakeholders with an interest in tackling food loss and waste in its broadest sense, underpinning a circular economy. Your input, expertise, and insights are sought to shape BBSRC’s and UKRI’s strategic thinking that will enable investment in …
Launch of the Supergen Bioenergy Hub 2023
The next four-year term of the UKRI-funded Supergen Bioenergy Hub will begin in November 2023. They invite all academics, industrialists, policymakers and the third sector working or interested in biomass and bioenergy to join them at their launch event on 14 November 2023, Aston University. Find the agenda and register: …
Have your say on the Engineering Biology Call for Evidence – Survey deadline 29 September 2023
Share your own views with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: HERE. This call for evidence asks for your experiences and insights into the strengths, weakness and opportunities for the UK’s engineering biology ecosystem. Government will use the outcomes of this call for evidence to inform policy that will …
Have your say on a fresh future for UK water management – Survey deadline 26 September 2023
Share your own views on the UK’s water industry: HERE A Fresh Water Future is an independently-funded project, delivered by CIWEM but overseen by a range of environmental NGOs, experts and practitioners. It aims to understand where consensus may be built on how water should be managed better in the …
NBIC Showcase – 12 September, Nottingham
Interested in biofilms? The National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) Showcase will take place on Tuesday 12 September 2023 from 09:00 – 17:30 at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham. Featuring talks from partner research institutions, researchers, industry/end-user partners etc., making this a great networking and knowledge exchange event. Register …
UK Biomass Strategy Published
The long-awaited UK Government’s Biomass Strategy has been published. It sets out steps government intends to take to strengthen biomass sustainability and the opportunities for the use of sustainable biomass across multiple sectors of the economy in support of achieving the UK’s net zero target. It builds on the 2021 Biomass …
Algae-UK 8th Business Interaction Voucher (BIV) call now open
Deadline: 14 July 2023. Up to £20,000 per BIV. Purpose: to encourage and support collaboration between academia and industry. The collaboration can be any defined piece of work by the academic partner to support the industrial partner and which is intended to facilitate small, confidence-building measures between the partners with …
New EBNet report: Reflections on the move to a double-blind Proof of Concept Call
Reflections on the move to a double-blind Proof of Concept Call. Recent criticisms within academia and a strong focus on EDI initiatives have highlighted anxieties about inequalities in the workplace. Our diverse research community needs to be assured that we take inclusion seriously and aim to safeguard the quality of …
Pre-announcement: UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme
Look sharp! Funding opportunity details for outline applications will be published on 25 May 2023 for this major funding opportunity for interdisciplinary ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines.This pilot scheme will support breakthrough or disruptive interdisciplinary ideas not routinely funded through existing UKRI responsive mode schemes. Awards will …
The Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships – Fiji / South Africa / Sri Lanka – close: 24 May 2023
The Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (QECS) offer a unique fully funded opportunity to study a two-year Master’s degree in a low or middle income Commonwealth country. This opportunity is open to citizens of a Commonwealth country who have graduated with an equivalent of a 2:1 at the time of application. …
UKRI Call For Evidence – closing date: 31 May 2023
This UKRI Call For Evidence is on current and past activity to improve the UK culture and environment across the R&I sector. Completion time for the survey is approx.10 mins. Or express your interest in joining one of four online co-creation workshops here.The final report of the State of the …
Free Cloud-SPAN workshop on CORE R – 20 June 2023
This free online two-hour workshop is hosted by Cloud-SPAN. It provides an introduction to R for complete beginners. The workshop assumes no prior experience of coding. By the end of the course you will be able to; find your way around RStudio use the basic data types and structures in …