Accelerator Grant Scheme
The QUEX Institute of Global Sustainability and Wellbeing (the QUEX Institute) was officially launched in mid-2017 as a strategic partnership between Exeter and UQ. As a virtual institute, QUEX seeks to address major global challenges through interdisciplinary collaborative research, academic, student and professional staff mobility; high-impact policy publications; and industry and community engagement. The QUEX Institute currently focuses on Healthy Living, Global Environmental Futures, and Digital Worlds & Disruptive Technologies themes. In support of this collaboration, the QUEX Institute offers three funding schemes each year to promote a broadening of collaboration between UQ and Exeter – the Workshop Grant Scheme, the Accelerator Grant Scheme and the Strategic Grant Scheme.
Accelerator Grants are intended to support larger-scale initiatives to secure external funding and/or produce high-level outputs and impact. It is anticipated that academic staff at both Universities, with excellent and complementary expertise and capability, will have already established a working relationship and track record that can be demonstrated as part of the application.
QUEX Accelerator Grant Scheme Details
Two Accelerator Grants up to a maximum of £30,000 (approx. AU$57,000) each will be available in 2022 to Exeter and UQ collaborators, with the following objectives:
- To position the project group to win major external funding, publish significant research, and/or influence national/ international policy.
- To address research questions and/or to develop innovative teaching and learning initiatives with potential for high impact that could not be as effectively carried out by a partner on its own. These research questions or teaching and learning initiatives should be aligned to one of the QUEX Institute's three themes.
- To facilitate further development of novel research and/or teaching and learning concepts to the point of submission of bid(s) for significant external funding.
- To expedite ground-breaking interdisciplinary research and/ or teaching and learning initiatives, taking them to the next level.
- To demonstrate clearly the added value of the QUEX Institute.
Guidelines and application form for the Accelerator Grant Scheme can be found below. The deadline for submitting applications is 4th October 2022. Please do not hesitate to contact the QUEX Team (quex@exeter.ac.uk) for any queries.
Application Deadline | 4th October 2022 |
Applicants notified of outcome | 4th November 2022 |
Project completion deadline | 4th October 2023 |
Report submission deadline | 4th December 2023 |
QUEX Accelerator Grants
Round |
UoE Lead PI |
UQ Lead PI |
Project |
Theme |
Status |
1 |
Developing statistical genetics methods to estimate causal maternal effects on offspring disease outcomes |
Healthy Ageing |
COMPLETE |
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1 |
Other ways to connect? The social connectedness of older people and the impact of technology. |
Healthy Ageing |
COMPLETE |
||
1 |
Partnership for Climate Change Impacts on Coral Reef Coastlines |
Environmental Sustainability |
COMPLETE |
||
1 |
QUEX Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Alliance: A new approach to AMR surveillance |
Environmental Sustainability |
COMPLETE |
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2 |
Jana Funke |
Elizabeth Stephens |
Medical humanities' approaches to Healthy Ageing and the life course |
Healthy Ageing |
ACTIVE |
2 |
Sarah Hartley | Karen Hussey | Global gene drive governance for climate adaptation and conservation | Environmental Sustainability |
ACTIVE |
2 |
Ilke Inceoglu | Nik Steffens | Leadership and Employee Health: How leaders' micro behaviours and communications build identity and boost well-being | Healthy Ageing |
ACTIVE |
2 |
Karen Hudson-Edwards | Anita Parbhakar-Fox | Towards environmentally sustainable mining: Making tailings’ safe | Environmental Sustainability |
ACTIVE |