The government has announced additional funding for the Mathematical Sciences of up to £300 million, which will more than double the current funding for the Mathematical Sciences delivered by EPSRC.
It includes:
- £19 million pa additional funding for PhD studentships, moving to 4-year studentships as standard and offering 5-year funding for research associates to compete with the US and Europe.
- £34 million pa additional funding for career pathways and new research projects, including multi-institutional projects and programmes.
- £7 million pa additional funding for new PhDs/research fellows at the Heilbronn Institute (Bristol), and funding to increase participants/workshops by a third at each of the Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge) and International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh).
More information is available here.
Also included in the government's package of annoucnemnts is a new, fast-track visa scheme to attract the 'world’s top scientists, researchers and mathematicians', which opens on 20 February.
- Top scientists and researchers to be given fast tracked entry to the UK with no cap on who can benefit.
- UK Research and Innovation to lead new visa scheme for researchers and specialists.
- Existing visa routes led by National Academies also expanded to cover more UK Research and Innovation fellowships.
More information is available here.