Research-in-Groups (RIGs)

The ICMS Research-in-Groups programme invites applications from small groups of researchers (between two and six) who wish to organise a short, intensive period of research in Edinburgh, typically between two and four weeks. The programme enables researchers to spend time in intensive research collaboration at ICMS, away from teaching and administration. The primary aim is to support top-quality international research in the mathematical sciences, particularly encouraging adventurous proposals involving novel groupings of researchers in interdisciplinary areas involving international collaborators. Successful applicants will be offered financial support and office facilities for their collaboration at ICMS on a specified project. At least one researcher must be based in the UK, and not all researchers should be from the same university with a maximum of two researchers from any one university. The group should not contain PhD students. ICMS particularly welcomes applications from mid-career researchers and those who have had interruptions in their research careers, for example through a heavy administrative burden or caring responsibilities. Researchers will be based in either 14 India Street, the birthplace of James Clerk Maxwell, or Edinburgh Futures Institute, working in quiet, elegant surroundings with generous office space and facilities.