For further details, please contact:

Dr. Sophie Dale

Project Manager

University of Nottingham

ubicomp at nottingham.ac.uk

Tel: 0115 84 68923

     

Bridging Fellowships

 

The Bridging Fellowship Programme supports established researchers in visiting other research labs, in bridging disciplinary boundaries or in creating a bridge between academic research laboratories and industry to tackle key Ubiquitous Computing issues. Senior scientists from national and international sites are encouraged to apply for fellowships. 

 

We are particularly keen to support visits that involve interdisciplinary and international participation.  Applicants should:-

  • Outline the focus of the visit, with targets and deliverables
  • Provide a preliminary programme for the visit, identifying who will be visited and what will be gained (by both parties) from this
  • Provide a brief description of the contribution that the proposed project makes to building the UbiComp Grand Challenge Community
  • Provide a budget outline for the visit

 

Awards made to date:

  • Kay Connelly (Indiana, USA): Bridging Fellowship to visit Yvonne Rogers (Open University, UK) and Marilyn Rose McGee-Lennon (Glasgow, UK) for 6 weeks to allow mutual research in the field of pervasive healthcare.
  • Sebastian Elbaum (Nebraska-Lincoln, USA): Bridging Fellowship to visit David Rosenblum (University College London, UK) for 1 week to allow further developments of mutual work in context-aware adaptive applications.
  • Sylvia Nittel (Maine, USA): Bridging Fellowship to visit Niki Trigoni (Oxford, UK) for 2 months to allow mutual research in data collection algorithms for fixed sensor networks with mobile sinks.
  • Vito Latora (Catania, Italy): Bridging Fellowship to visit Cecilia Mascolo (Cambridge, UK) for 3 months to allow mutual research in understanding, modelling and controlling the spread of ubiquitous computing malware through the comparison with human disease spreading.

 

Notes: 'Established researchers' may be taken to mean researchers having at least 10 years of postdoctoral experience, or an equivalent form of experience. For early career researchers, please consider the Early Career Exchange Programme. Typical applications received are of the order of 1-1.5 A4 pages in length, including all the requested information in the bullet points above. No application form is required - simply send the required information to Dr. Sophie Dale using the contact details opposite. If you require informal guidance prior to submission, please also get in touch. All awards must be announced and funding allocated by March 2009 - therefore applications should be received by the end of January 2009.

 

Please note that these awards are now closed.