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UKRI Digital Research Technical Professional Skills NetworkPlus

UK Research and Innovation

The aim of this funding opportunity is to support a small number of Digital Research Technical Professional (RTP) Skills NetworkPlus grant awards, led by project leads (termed digital RTP champions), which will equitably bring together disciplines, sectors, and domains together to:

address cross-cutting challenges related to digital RTP skills and careers
provide leadership and coordinate collaborations
seed better ways of working together
catalyse learning, capability and capacity for digital RTPs

The NetworkPlus awards will explore key challenges and interventions related to skills and careers that are faced by digital RTP communities across the UK research and innovation landscape, including, for example:

visible career pathways, structures and offers, including entry routes, and nature of employment contracts
people and skills capacity to support innovative research
mechanisms and structures to support movement of people and skills across and between research, disciplines and industry
recognition of the value of staff delivering and supporting the delivery and use of digital research infrastructures

For the purposes of this funding opportunity, digital RTP is intended to be an inclusive umbrella term which includes hundreds of job titles such as data scientists, research software engineers, computational researchers, systems administrators, and technical support for digital research infrastructures.

Specialties

Technology Development

Telemedicine

Eligibility Requirements

Standard UKRI eligibility rules apply. Your application should be led by an eligible project lead based at eligible UK based organisations in accordance with standard UKRI practice.

This funding opportunity is open to eligible researchers at:

higher education providers
eligible research institutes
NHS bodies
approved public sector research establishments (PSREs)
approved independent research organisations (IROs)
approved research technology organisations (including Catapults)

You must support cross discipline and cross domain communities and collaborations with other UK organisations.

For this funding opportunity we specifically welcome applications led by research technical professionals, including research software engineers, involved in the delivery of digital research infrastructure who meet the eligibility criteria. Digital RTPs may apply as either project lead or project co-lead.

You may be involved in no more than two applications submitted to this funding opportunity. Only one of these can be as project lead.

International applicants

We do not fund overseas organisations.

You should include all other international collaborators (or UK partners not based at approved organisations) as project partners. This includes organisations from the business or financial sectors.

If your application includes international applicants, project partners or collaborators, visit UKRI’s trusted research and innovation for more information on effective international collaboration.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all funding applicants. We encourage applications from a diverse range of researchers.

We support people to work in a way that suits their personal circumstances. This includes: