A call for proposals is announced for programmes to be held in the Scottish Universities Insight Institute in the period March 2012 to September 2012.
Application guidelines and application forms can be downloaded at:
http://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/AbouttheInstitute/CallforProposals20112012.aspx
Key dates
Deadline for Registering Interest: 23:59hrs, Saturday 15th October 2011
Deadline for submitting a Full Proposal: 5pm, Friday 11th November 2011
Funding decision made by: Week beginning 12th December 2011
Programmes
Scottish Insight will support at least 2 programmes as a result of this call. Programmes should:
• address substantial issues that face Scotland and the wider world;
• require a multi-disciplinary approach and multi-sector participation;
• marshal the existing knowledge of participants and deploy their experience in fresh ways;
• be productively addressed through a schedule of activities during a period of up to 4 months
• have the capacity to extend knowledge and inform policy and/or practice.
Programme participants should include international expertise. Organising teams must include at least one member employed at a Scottish partner university and leadership teams that involve more than one partner university will be viewed positively. The universities financially sponsoring these programmes are the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, St Andrews and Strathclyde. Academics from other Scottish universities may participate but not lead programmes.
About the Institute
In its pilot phase, the Institute was hosted and supported by the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow as the Institute for Advanced Studies. Since autumn 2010, the Institute operates under the name Scottish Universities Insight Institute, a shared venture funded by four Scottish universities and this call is issued on their behalf.
