{"id":7526,"date":"2026-07-27T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:56:54","slug":"researchers-in-residence-sprint-programme-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/2026\/07\/27\/researchers-in-residence-sprint-programme-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers in Residence Sprint Programme Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\">The <strong>Innovation Launchpad Network+ (ILN+)<\/strong>, has secured an additional \u00a3500,000 from the <strong>Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)<\/strong>\u00a0to launch the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/innovationlaunchpad.group.shef.ac.uk\/rirsprint\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Researchers in Residence (RiR) Sprint<\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0programme<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Running between <strong>October 2026 and February 2027<\/strong>, the RiR Sprint will build on the success of the Network\u2019s flagship Researchers in Residence scheme by providing a new fast paced model of collaboration between universities and the <strong>Innovate UK Catapult Network<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The call for the Researchers in Residence Sprint programme <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/innovationlaunchpad.group.shef.ac.uk\/rirsprint\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">is open now<\/a><\/strong>, with projects commencing in <strong>October 2026 and ending in February 2027<\/strong>. Applications are invited for projects of between \u00a325,000-\u00a350,000 of university researcher costs which will take fundamental work from the University lab and scale it towards application in the real world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/innovationlaunchpad.group.shef.ac.uk\/rirsprint\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Everything you need to know, including a three-step guide to application, is here.<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Innovation Launchpad Network+ (ILN+), has secured an additional \u00a3500,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)\u00a0to launch the Researchers in Residence (RiR) Sprint\u00a0programme. Running between October 2026 and February 2027, the RiR Sprint will build on the success of the Network\u2019s flagship Researchers in Residence scheme by providing a new fast paced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16585],"tags":[320929,320931],"class_list":["post-7526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding-studentships-awards-2","tag-doctoral-students","tag-research-staff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}