1. The Aberdeen Grants Academy Conversations on ……. Series
Water Security & Sustainability
Promoting Inter-disciplinary Research
Research &
Innovation
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2. Promoting Inter-disciplinary Research
Grants Academy: Conversations on …….
Promoting Inter-disciplinary Research
Working Group reported on how interdisciplinary research is encouraged and supported at Aberdeen.
Recommendation to establish a coherent framework for enabling and supporting IDR, under strong academic leadership.
The Grants Academy will provide professional support to IDR activities, informing, training, facilitating horizon scanning, challenge and review sessions and supporting the development of bids and collaborations.
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3. Grants Academy
Support at ALL STAGES of the research grant life cycle: conception of ideas, through development and refinement of an application, to research delivery and realising impact.
A comprehensive programme of development.
Enhance our research environment.
Offer the ability to be better prepared for opportunities and enhance our ability to respond to calls.
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4. How the Grants Academy Works
Developed as a series of interwoven elements including sandpits to support the development of ideas and projects, grant writing workshops, rebuttal support, support for delivery of outcomes and outcomes management and more.
Relevant to today, supports:
Effective horizon scanning
Facilitation of early ideas development
Supporting interdisciplinary working
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5. Application Development
Conversations Just the Beginning
Impact
What can we expect from today:
Networking
New Collaborations
Developing Ideas
Positioning for Future Calls
Forming Draft Applications
Outcome
Idea Preparation
Submission
Application Development
Application Refinement
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6. RESEARCHconnect https://www.researchconnect.co.uk @UoAResInnov
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7. Opportunities for Growth
Exploring three major areas of funding to achieve growth and impact:
International Development Challenges – around the UN SDGs
Industrial Partnership funding around technology challenges and enterprise
Cultural engagement and enrichment
Aberdeen City Deal
All of these require interdisciplinary responses
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8. What is Water Security?

9. Research needs

11. SDG6

12. Cross-cutting theme through almost all goals

13. Themes in water security
Wide reaching and inherently interdisciplinary
The following list can provide a starting point for our conversations, and also highlights the breadth and potential for future collaborative working across the university in this field.
Climate change and water security
Land and water management and environmental change
Sustainable exploitation of natural resources
Socio-hydrology
Water and health
Water governance
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14. Themes 1 Climate change and water security
Land and water management and environmental change

15. Themes 2
Water and exploitation of natural resources
Socio-hydrology

16. Themes 3
Water and health
Water governance

17. Some context Aberdeen does water-related research very well
Ranked 34 out of 300 for Water Resources in ARWU
Others are much more effective and have higher profile

18. Groups Climate change and land/water management Water and health
Socio-hydrology and water governance
What are our strengths?
Existing projects?
Opportunities?
Collaboration needs?
International networks?