AXA RESEARCH FUND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

The mission of the AXA Research Fund is to fund academic research dedicated to bettering our understanding of important hazards, risks and threats and our current global societal challenges within four clusters: Life & Health risks, Data & Technological risks, Climate & Environment risks and Finance, Insurance and Regulation Risks. 

 In 2017 the AXA Research Fund will be offering up to twenty-five (25) Post-Doctoral Fellowships to outstanding researchers. Each grant can be up to one hundred and thirty thousand euros (€130,000) at most and for a duration of eighteen (18) to twenty-four (24) month period.

The AXA Research Fund Advisory Board wishes to fund academic projects contributing to improve the ability of the Society to better manage global risks. In details, the following topics fall within the scope of priority thematic:

• Improving the Management of Life & Health Risks, and in particular: • Demographics, longevity and aging • Prevention, personalized health and behaviour change • Population health management • Management of chronic & non communicable diseases management and long term care • Efficiency of healthcare systems

• Improving the Management of Data & Technological Risks, and in particular: • Robotics, automation & autonomous vehicles • Artificial intelligence, data science & machine learning • Cyber risk & protection

• Improving the Management of Climate & Environment Risks, and in particular: • Risk modelling of natural hazards & weather events • Urban resilience • Sustainable resource management

• Improving the Management of Finance, Insurance and Regulation Risks, and in particular: • Asset valuation, risk modelling and behavioral finance • Responsible investment strategies & sustainable finance • Geopolitical & country risk • Systemic risk and macro-economic and societal role of insurance

 Only research projects with justified relevance to this list will be considered for funding.

• Candidate • Only candidates without a permanent academic position are eligible. 

• The applicant must have been awarded his/her first PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) before the beginning of the Post-Doctoral grant and within the 3 years preceding the deadline for the submission of their research proposal.

 Institutions have until May 15th, 2017 noon (CET time) to request applications slots


Application Guidelines

MRC/DFID/NIHR Call for research to improve adolescent health in LMIC settings

The Medical Research Council (MRC), the UK Government Department of Health, and National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR), have launched a call for research to improve adolescent health in LMIC settings. Together the three funders have agreed to commit up to £10 million to this scheme.

This call for proposals seeks to provide the research evidence needed to effect real and practical changes to improve adolescent health in Low and Middle Income Countries.

Proposals should identify clearly the health issues and/or risk factors to be addressed. Applicants should describe the pathway for how the proposed approach can be scalable, as well as highlighting any potential generalizability of findings to improve the health of adolescents in other settings. Proposals should demonstrate how outcomes could be implemented within systems and seek to engage with related social and economic barriers within these systems. We encourage genuine interdisciplinary collaborations across social science, biomedical science and other disciplines.

Applications will be accepted from Principal Investigators based at organisations either in the UK or in Low, Lower-middle and Upper-middle income countries.

Closing date: 15 Jun 2017 16:00 GMT+1

https://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/mrc-dfid-nihr-adolescent-health-lmic/mrc-dfid-nihr-call-for-research-to-improve-adolescent-health-in-an-lmic-setting/

UK Travel Grants - Researcher Links / Newton Fund

Researcher Links Travel Grants provide financial support for early-career researchers to undertake an international research placement to strengthen links for future collaboration, build research capacity in developing economies, and enhance the researcher's career opportunities.

Researchers that reside in the UK can apply for funding to visit a university or research institution in one of the partner countries, and those residing in one of the partner countries can apply for funding to come to the UK. The mobility must occur between 01 February 2018 and 31 January 2019

PARTNER COUNTRY
Thailand. Researchers that reside in the UK can apply for funding to visit a university or research institution in Thailand, and those residing in Thailand can apply for funding to come to the UK.

DEADLINE
13 June 2017, 16.00 (UK time)

National co-funder: Thailand Research Fund (TRF)                                                
Minimum duration: 4 weeks
Maximum duration: 24 weeks

Research priorities: 1. Social Science and Humanities 2. Agriculture and Agritech 3. Climate and environment (eg. Climate change, green technology, sustainable development, ecosystem services, resource scarcity) 4. Sustainable energy for all
The call is also open to other fields of Health and Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering.

TRF will fund Thai researchers. The rates requested will be paid in Thai Baht using the exchange rate of: 43.30 THB/ GBP. Flight ticket: 70,000 THB, Preparation cost: 10,000 THB, Subsistence cost: 19,000 THB per week (As TRF is unable to grant a budget for Child-care, this is to be paid upon arrival in the UK at £21.25 per week (5% of £425 subsistence per week)) Visa cost: 6,750 THB,  Insurance cost: 2,900 THB per week, Consumables: 2812.50 THB per week

See  https://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/current-opportunities/travel-grants-newton-april-2017 for further details and contact the ORS for guidance.