Hi-Phi April 2008 - Issue 171

In this issue...

• Postdoctoral and advanced fellowships
• Final reports - change to reporting requirements

Postdoctoral and advanced fellowships

The successful particle and nuclear physics applicants to STFC's postdoctoral and advanced fellowship schemes are listed below.

Postdoctoral

• Dr A N Deacon, particle/nuclear physics experiment, Manchester University
• Dr A M Magnan, particle/nuclear physics experiment, Imperial College
• Mr A A Rej, particle/nuclear physics theory, Imperial College
• Dr O J Rosten, particle/nuclear physics theory, Sussex University
• Dr M Wolf, particle/nuclear physics theory, Cambridge University

Advanced

• Dr M J Charles, particle/nuclear physics experiment, Oxford University
• Dr E L Nurse, particle/nuclear physics experiment, UCL
• Dr M O Wascko, particle/nuclear physics experiment, Imperial College
• Dr Z M Zanotti, particle/nuclear physics theory, Edinburgh University
• Dr R Zwicky, particle/nuclear physics theory, Edinburgh University

Final reports - change to reporting requirements

The Research Councils, as part of wider initiatives to reduce the amount of effort expended by the research sector on the preparation and assessment of research proposals and final reports, have decided to scale back their final reporting requirements.

In line with this, STFC has decided to remove, from 15th April, the requirement for a narrative scientific report attachment to accompany the final report form required for most standard Research Grants. It will still be necessary to complete the final report form within three months of the end of a grant, but, with no narrative report, final reports will cease to be peer reviewed. However, we recognise that some final report narrative attachments may currently be in preparation so will continue to accept them; and any that are, optionally, completed and submitted before 1 May will be sent for peer review and graded in the normal way. After 1 May we will not send final reports for peer review.

The Collaborative Research Grant Final Report attachment, needed for final reports on grants awarded under PIPSS schemes, will continue to be required. There is no impact on grants, such as rolling grants, for which final reports are not currently required. Refer to the Research Grants Handbook for details.

In the longer term, the Councils are working together on developing a process for collecting information on the outputs, such as publications, generated by grant-supported research.