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The Royal Society, in partnership with the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy and the Department for ÌÇÐÄTV, Energy and Industrial Strategy, invites applications for the Newton advanced fellowships – Brazil, China and Turkey. This enables established international researchers to develop the research strengths and capabilities of their research group through training, collaboration and reciprocal visits with a partner in the UK. The skills and knowledge gained should lead to changes in the wellbeing of communities and increased economic benefits. The aims are to:

•support the development of a well-trained research community who can contribute to advancing economic development and social welfare of the partner country by transferring new skills and creating new knowledge;

•strengthen research excellence in partner countries by supporting promising independent, early to mid-career researchers, and their research groups and networks, to develop their research through training, collaboration, reciprocal visits, and the transfer of knowledge and skills from the UK;

•establish long-term links between the best research groups in partner countries and the UK to ensure that improvements in research capacity are sustainable in the longer term.

Early-career group leaders in Brazil, China and Turkey may apply with a UK-based scientist as the co-applicant. Applicants must have a PhD or equivalent research experience and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract in an eligible university or research institute, which must span the duration of the project. Applicants should have no more than 15 years of postdoctoral experience.

Awards are worth up to £37,000 per year for up to two years, and include a salary top up for the overseas researcher of up to £5,000, research support of up to £15,000, travel and subsistence of up to £12,000 and training costs of up to £5,000.

The Royal Society, via the Newton Fund, invites applications for the Newton mobility grants. These enable researchers from Brazil, Thailand and Turkey to visit or send staff and and partner with their UK hosts and the wider UK research and innovation community. Activities must be related to a subject within the natural sciences, including physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, engineering, agricultural, biological and biomedical research, the scientific aspects of archaeology, geography and experimental psychology, but excluding social science, and clinical or patient-oriented research. Collaborations should be based on a single project.

Researchers based in Brazil, Thailand and Turkey may apply in collaboration with a UK-based co-applicant. All applicants must have completed a PhD or have equivalent research experience, and hold a permanent or fixed term contract for the duration of the award at an eligible university or research institute.

The following types of grants are available:

•up to £3,000 for one-off travel lasting up to three months;

•up to £6,000 for multiple visits to be completed within one year, including a maximum of £1,000 for research expenses;

•up to £12,000 for multiple visits to be completed within two years, including a maximum of £2,000 for research expenses.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, through UK Research and Innovation and the Industrial Strategy Challenges Fund, and in partnership with the Faraday Institution, invites intents to submit for the Faraday battery challenge – battery characterisation call. This supports research projects to develop battery-related characterisation analytical techniques and capabilities. This call is expected to lead to new characterisation and analytical techniques that will have the effect of strengthening the UK’s leading position in electrochemical energy storage technology, providing battery researchers with world leading methods and capabilities to advance their research.

Proposals must clearly identify how new characterisation techniques and capabilities would support improvements in energy density, power density, cost, safety, lifetime, predictability and recycling of batteries to realise the improvements necessary to mainstream new battery based technologies.

The PI must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at the lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible organisation, which may be an HEI, a research institute funded by a research council or an independent research organisation.

The total budget is worth £2 million for up to four projects of 21 months’ duration.