We are launching a second Call-to-Arms (C2A-2) which will start from the first week of February 2021. This follows the first COVID Call to Arms (C2A-1) during the first lockdown, and which led to a submission of £8M worth of grant income which would not have otherwise have found its way to submission.
The C2A-2 carries the theme of “Industrial challenges: The Nexus of Healthcare, Sustainability and Digital” and is organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Network, consisting of the research centres CSCT, C3Bio, CTI and IMI.
This is a great opportunity to explore new avenues, in particular partnering with industry, as well as opening the door to broad and diverse funding streams.
Please note, that whilst C2A-2 will overlap with the Faculty of Science Virtual Sandpit on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Health, it is a separate process and deliberately runs in parallel with a complementary theme; offering optimal opportunity and context for those of you interested in exploring and proposing interdisciplinary research under these themes.
How is the call-to-arms organised?
C2A-2 kicks off with a half-day session which encourages the formation of interdisciplinary teams around specific research challenges. This leads into a sequence of “check-in” meetings in which ideas and progress is encouraged and supported.
Who can sign up?
The C2A-2 is open to all academic staff from prize fellow upwards. We would particularly like to encourage early career researchers to join in and experience a new way of working that can help open the door to new funding regimes and industrial needs.
What is the rough agenda?
From the week commencing 1 February there will be a half-day session of pitches for potential research ideas and discussions on topics which emerged from a recent consultation with industry (Innovation Day on 9 December):
- Net Zero in EU and UK health services
- Sustainable medicines life-cycle and digital analysis
- Biosensors in precision medicine
- Quantitative diagnostics and prognostics in precision medicine
- Personalised management and treatment of pain
- Big data analysis of established medical sources
By the end of the session, participants will be asked to self-organise into groups to chase a potential project, with an identified end point (grant submission/industrial partnership/other…).
- Week commencing 15 February
- First check-in: Project leads update with small summary on project ambition, target, end game and feedback given
- Week commencing 1 March
- Industry Pitch: a chance to pitch back ideas to industrial/external partners for feedback on project ideas
- Week commencing 15 March
- A series of two-weekly check-ins with project leads culminating moving towards end game
Registration
More details will be disseminated after registration.
Email resdev@bath.ac.uk if you have any questions.
On behalf of The University of Bath Interdisciplinary Research Network
Andreas Kyprianou (IMI) Banafshe Larijani (CTI) Pedro Estrela (C3Bio) Matt Davidson (CSCT) Richie Gill (CTI)