- World-class research
- Scottish Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme
- Researcher career development
- Research Excellence Framework
- Research Assessment Exercise
- Strategic Research Development Grant
Research Pools- Attracting research talent to Scotland (ARTS)
- Global engagement
- Case studies
- External links
Research Pools
The research pooling initiative was created by SFC in 2003 to encourage researchers across Scottish higher education to pool their resources and respond to increasing international competition.
The concept behind these research pools is the belief that dynamic collaborations between research departments can provide Scotland’s universities with a competitive advantage which other countries would find difficult to replicate.
With 20 closely connected universities and a tradition of academic collaboration reaching back to the Enlightenment, Scotland is a well connected hub of world-leading research.
The current Pooling initiatives are:
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)
- ScotCHEM
- WestCHEM
- EaStCHEM
- Edinburgh Research Partnership in Engineering and Mathematics (ERP)
- Glasgow Research Partnership in Engineering (GRP)
- Marine Alliance for Science & Technology for Scotland (MASTS)
- Northern Research Partnership (NRP)
- Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES)
- Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)
- Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA)
- Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence
- Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)