Newton-Bhabha PhD Placements Programme Call for Applications 1. On behalf of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills of the British Government (BIS) and the Ministry of Science and Technology, India (MoST), British Council India and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) are pleased to invite applications for funding to support short-term PhD placements between UK and Indian institutions. 2. The Programme will sponsor UK and Indian PhD students to spend a period of their study (3 to 6 months) in Indian and UK higher education institutions taking place between March 2015 and March 2016. 3. Indian PhD students, applicable only to students who have been awarded INSPIRE Fellowship in the financial year 2011-12 to pursue PhD program and also completed their assessment process from JRF to SRF, wishing to travel to the UK may apply to the fund by completing the form accessible on website’s http://www.inspire-dst.gov.in/ & www.dst.gov.in and UK PhD students wishing to travel to India may apply for the fund by completing the on-line application form accessible at https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1867735-9vddXDA5Ge. The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 January 2015. The announcement of the selection results will be made by mid-February 2015. Background 4. The Newton Fund is a £375 million fund (£75 million a year for 5 years starting 2014/15) launched to promote science and innovation partnership with key international partners, including India. Programmes under the Newton Fund will augment the existing research collaboration with India to jointly deliver innovative solutions to global development challenges. 5. By working together on bi-lateral and multi-lateral programmes with a research and innovation focus, the UK will build strong, sustainable, systemic relationships with partner countries. This will support the continued excellence of the UK research base and innovation ecosystem and act as a golden key to unlock opportunities for wider collaboration and trade. 6. Building up a talented pool of well trained, internationally active doctoral students is an essential step towards establishing world-class research systems. Improving mobility at the doctoral level is also an important factor in facilitating cross border research collaboration, as connections made at this level can be sustained over longer periods and can percolate through to other members of research teams. It also offers benefits to doctoral researchers in terms of intellectual development, career progression, access to existing and emerging world class facilities and access to comparative research, environments and populations. 7. Therefore, the BIS and the MoST have decided to jointly establish a threeyear (2014-2016) PhD Placement Programme (hereafter referred to as “the Programme”) under the Newton-Bhabha Fund. 8. The British Council, entrusted by the BIS, will be responsible for the design and daily operation of the Programme on the UK side, and on the Indian side in consultation with DST. Aims 9. The aim of the Programme is to facilitate the capacity building of individuals through PhD placements. These will be focussed on research areas which have been identified at the country level as important for fulfilling the Fund goals. Please refer to the section on priority sectors. 10. The approach will be student centred to ensure that the best possible development experience is provided for each student. International exchanges should add value through enabling students to: Learn valuable new skills or techniques Access facilities or resources not readily available in their home country Build relationships with potential new collaborators, including industry partners where relevant Advance complementary collaborative research. 11. Supervisors are encouraged to engage and participate in the programme to ensure that an appropriate research environment for the student is accessible at host institutions, and to encourage the development of sustainable relationships between institutions. Outcomes 12. The primary outcomes will be the following: Development of individual capacity through international training and development opportunities; Highly trained researchers in the UK and India with international experience, able to contribute to the absorptive capacity for research and innovation and thus bring about economic and social benefits; Participation of UK domiciled and Indian PhD students in international intellectual networks, building cultural understanding, and fostering long-term sustainable research collaborations; Development of international joint training pathways; Awareness of the research strength of the UK and India. Priority sectors 13. Applications are welcome in any Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects. This also includes the Grand Challenges areas and underpinning capabilities identified by the UK-India Task Force on Science and Innovation, which are - Sustainable Cities and Rapid Urbanisation Public Health and Well being Energy Water Food Nexus Eligibility 14. On the UK side applications will be considered from PhD students from all institutions which are strong in research in the above priority sectors (refer to point 13). On the Indian side applications will be open to existing INSPIRE PhD fellows at an appropriate level who have completed at least two years of research as an INSPIRE Fellow. Application 15. Each application should include a PhD student and should come with endorsement from both the sending and receiving supervisors, including with the latter’s confirmation that they will host the PhD students; duration of the stay; and level of fees they will charge. 16. Indian applicants should use the application format provided at Annexure A. 17. UK applications should be submitted to the British Council India, and Indian applications should be submitted to DST India. Activities supported 18. The Programme will fund individual Indian PhD students to spend a period between 3 and 6 months in the UK, or vice versa. Funding arrangements 19. British Council will invest up to a total of £1.2 million and hold up to 4 calls. In this first call it will invest up to £300,000. British Council anticipates funding up to 30 PhD placements in the first call. DST will fund similar number from UK to India in the first call. 20. Costs covered Each student can visit the partner institution once for a period of 3 to 6 months. Visa fee, international airfares (economy class) and overseas travel insurance costs incurred by PhD students will be met by their sending government. Where the UK host university cannot waive the fees, the host supervisor can apply to the British Council for up to £5,000, which must be indicated on the Indian applicant’s application. UK government will pay Indian students a monthly stipend of £1,300 to cover meals, accommodation and domestic travel, etc. The Indian Government will pay UK students a monthly stipend of 25000 INR, basic medical care insurance and a one-off arrival allowance of 10000 INR. Accommodation for the UK PhD students will be provided by the Indian host university. UK PhD students will be exempt from accommodation fees, tuition fees, experiment fees and basic teaching material costs. Costs beyond the above arrangements will be borne by the students themselves. Any existing support to both UK and Indian students from their respective governments must continue during the tenure of the fellowship. 21. To summarise, funding from the British Government will cover the following items: - PhD students: UK students’ visa fees to India UK students’ returning airfares (economy class) UK students’ Overseas travel insurance Indian students’ bench fees in the UK Indian students’ stipend in the UK. 22. Funding from the Indian Government will cover the following items: - PhD students: Indian students’ visa fees to the UK Indian students’ returning airfares (economy class) Indian students’ travel insurance UK students’ arrival allowance in India UK students’ stipend in India UK students’ fees, accommodation, insurance, experiment fees and basic teaching material costs in India Evaluation criteria 23. The applicants should ensure their applications meet the criteria set out below. The principles underlying the assessment of applications will be: All questions on the Application Form are answered; The activities are planned to deliver the outcomes in the most effective way; The placement will added value to the PhD research and to the activities of the two research groups; The support offered to the researcher will ensure that the placement is as productive as possible The mobility programme will contribute towards developing a long term sustainable partnership between UK and Indian universities. Evaluation process 24. Department of Science and Technology, India and British Council India will conduct independent evaluation processes and based on that will select the required number of students for this purpose. After the evaluation the lists of selected students shall be shared with each agency for taking a final decision. 25. Applications will be screened for their relevance as per priority sectors (refer to point 13) of Newton Fund. Contracting and Financial Arrangements 26. The grant agreement for placements in the UK will be signed between the British Council India and the UK host institution. The host institution will be responsible for: Managing the grant, including paying the stipend to students Provision of financial accounts to detail how the UK Government funds have been spent on each PhD student over the reporting periods by the end of March 2015, end of March 2016 and end of March 2017. Alerting the British Council India to any substantive changes that will impact on project outcomes. 27. The grant agreement for placements in India will be signed between DST and the Indian host institution. 28. The host institution will be responsible for: Provision of financial accounts to detail how the Indian Government funds have been spent on each PhD student over the reporting periods by the end of March 2015, end of March 2016 and end of March 2017. Alerting the DST India to any substantive changes that will impact on project outcomes. Support to students 29. The Newton PhD Placements programme expects that the host institution offers high standards of supervision, management and mentoring to placement students. In your proposal, you might want to consider the following: • The host institution’s standards of supervision, management and mentoring. • Support and training supervisors receive so that they provide the highestquality supervisory support for their doctoral students • Mechanisms that are in place to assess, provide for and monitor individual doctoral student needs and offer the student appropriate development opportunities • Professional and transferable skills training offered to doctoral students, including training in the principles of good research conduct in their discipline and in the relevant ethical, legal and professional frameworks • Learning and training opportunities available to doctoral students to raise awareness of the broader context of their research area, particularly in reference to societal and ethical issues, and the importance of engaging the public with research For further information on UK standards for doctoral training, please refer to the ‘Statement of Expectations for Doctoral Training’ http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUKprod/assets/documents/skills/statementofexpectation.pdf Reporting and Monitoring 30. Each PhD student will submit a report, detailing training progress and financial accounts, to the British Council India and DST respectively by 30thApril 2015, 30th April 2016 and 30th April 2017. 31. The host institution which manages the grant will submit financial reports to the British Council and DST respectively see above. Contact points For British Council – India Leena Arora [email protected] For DST – India Dr Chhama Awasthi, INSPIRE Program (Fellowship) [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________________________ All interested and eligible candidates must apply in the prescribed A4 size format along with documents as listed in Annexure A. Applications should be sent by Post only and shall be addressed to Dr Chhama Awasthi INSPIRE Program Department of Science & Technology Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road New Delhi – 110 016. The envelope should mention on top “Application for Newton-Bhabha PhD Placements Programme (Priority Area)”. ANNEXURE A DATED: 27.11.2014 APPLICATION FORM FOR NEWTON-BHABHA SHORT TERM PHD PLACEMENT PROGRAMME FOR INSPIRE FELLOWS INSPIRE FELLOWSHIP REGISTRATION NUMBER: NAME OF INSPIRE FELLOW: PRIORITY AREA (as given in point no. 13 in guideline): (Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Mathematics/ Ground Challenge areas) STATEMENT OF PURPOSE (to be done at UK, maximum 500 words): HOST INSTITUTION NAME (where training to be done at UK): SUPERVISOR NAME (under whom training to be done at UK): TITLE OF PHD RESEARCH (Maximum 100 words): OBJECTIVE OF RESEARCH WORK (PhD Work, Maximum 100 words): SUMMARY OF RESEARCH WORK (PhD work, not more than two pages: separate sheet may be included): LIST OF INDEXED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED) ALONG WITH ABSTRACT OF EACH PUBLICATIONS AWARDS/ MEMBERSHIP RECOGNITION: OF INSTITUTIONS/ ACADEMIC SOCIETY OR ANY OTHER LIST OF SOME UK UNIVERSITIES This list is provided to help students in identifying the place of work in UK. List of Uk Universities who have been ranked as part of the Research Assessment Exercise in UK. The RAE2008 was conducted jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DEL) Universities conducting PhD in Chemistry University of Bath University of Birmingham University of Bristol University of Cambridge University of Durham University of East Anglia University of Huddersfield University of Hull Imperial College London University of Leeds University of Leicester University of Liverpool Loughborough University University of Manchester University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Nottingham University of Oxford University of Reading University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Sussex University College London University of Warwick University of York University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh (joint submission with University of St Andrews) University of Glasgow (joint submission with University of Strathclyde) Heriot-Watt University Bangor University Cardiff University Queen's University Belfast Universities conducting PhD Programme in Physics University of Bath University of Birmingham University of Brighton University of Bristol University of Cambridge University of Central Lancashire University of Durham University of Exeter University of Hertfordshire Imperial College London Keele University University of Kent King's College London Lancaster University University of Leeds University of Leicester University of Liverpool Liverpool John Moores University Loughborough University University of Manchester University of Nottingham University of Oxford Queen Mary, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Surrey University of Sussex University College London University of Warwick University of York University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow Heriot-Watt University University of St Andrews University of Strathclyde University of the West of Scotland Aberystwyth University Cardiff University Swansea University Armagh Observatory Queen's University Belfast Universities conducting PhD programme in Mathematics University of Bath University of Birmingham University of Bristol University of Cambridge University of Durham University of East Anglia University of Exeter Imperial College London University of Kent King's College London Lancaster University University of Leeds University of Leicester University of Liverpool London School of Economics and Political Science London Metropolitan University Loughborough University University of Manchester University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Nottingham Open University University of Oxford Queen Mary, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London University of Sheffield University of Southampton University College London University of Warwick University of York University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University) University of Glasgow University of St Andrews Aberystwyth University Cardiff University Swansea University Queen's University Belfast Universities conducting PhD in Biology University of Bath Bath Spa University Birkbeck College (joint submission with University College London) University of Birmingham University of Bristol: A - Biological Sciences University of Bristol: B - Biochemistry University of Cambridge Institute of Cancer Research Cranfield University University of Derby University of Durham University of East Anglia University of Essex University of Exeter University of Hull Imperial College London University of Kent King's College London University of Leeds University of Leicester University of Liverpool Liverpool John Moores University Institute of Zoology University of Manchester University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Nottingham Open University University of Oxford: A - Plant Sciences University of Oxford: B - Zoology University of Oxford: C - Biochemistry Oxford Brookes University University of Plymouth Queen Mary, University of London University of Reading Roehampton University Royal Holloway, University of London University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Sussex University of Warwick University of York University of Aberdeen University of Dundee University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of St Andrews Bangor University Cardiff University University of Glamorgan Swansea University Queen's University Belfast Universities conducting PhD in Engineering Electrical and Electronical Engineering University of Bath University of Birmingham University of Bradford University of Bristol Coventry University De Montfort University University of Essex Imperial College London University of Kent King's College London Lancaster University University of Leeds University of Liverpool Liverpool John Moores University Loughborough University University of Manchester University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Nottingham University of Plymouth Queen Mary, University of London University of Reading University of Sheffield: A - Automatic Control and Systems Engineering University of Sheffield: B - Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Southampton University of Surrey University College London University of Westminster University of York University of Glasgow University of Strathclyde Bangor University Cardiff University Swansea University Queen's University Belfast Chemical engineering University of Bath University of Birmingham University of Cambridge Imperial College London University of Manchester University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Sheffield University College London Heriot-Watt University University of Strathclyde Civil Engineering University of Birmingham University of Bradford University of Bristol De Montfort University University of Greenwich Imperial College London University of Leeds University of Liverpool Loughborough University University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Nottingham University of Plymouth University of Sheffield University of Southampton University College London University of Dundee University of Glasgow Heriot-Watt University Napier University University of Strathclyde Cardiff University Swansea University Queen's University Belfast Computer Science and Informatics University of Bath University of Bedfordshire Birkbeck College University of Birmingham Bournemouth University University of Bradford University of Brighton University of Bristol University of Cambridge City University, London Coventry University De Montfort University University of Durham University of East Anglia University of Essex University of Exeter Goldsmiths College, University of London University of Greenwich University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield Imperial College London University of Kent King's College London Kingston University Lancaster University University of Leeds University of Leicester University of Lincoln University of Liverpool Liverpool Hope University Liverpool John Moores University London Metropolitan University London South Bank University Loughborough University University of Manchester Manchester Metropolitan University Middlesex University University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Nottingham Nottingham Trent University Open University University of Oxford Oxford Brookes University University of Plymouth University of Portsmouth Queen Mary, University of London University of Reading Royal Holloway, University of London University of Sheffield University of Southampton Staffordshire University University of Sunderland University of Surrey University of Sussex University of Teesside Thames Valley University University College London University of Warwick University of the West of England, Bristol University of Westminster University of York University of Aberdeen University of Dundee University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow Glasgow Caledonian University Heriot-Watt University Napier University Robert Gordon University University of St Andrews University of Stirling University of Strathclyde University of the West of Scotland Aberystwyth University Bangor University Cardiff University University of Glamorgan Glyndŵr University Swansea University Queen's University Belfast University of Ulster Source of information – www.rae.ac.uk
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