FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
EQUIPMENT
There are funding opportunities for students, researchers and SMEs to access Royce equipment at the University of Cambridge. Similar schemes are available at the other Royce partners: Imperial, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield. For more information visit its UK Funding Page and Access Scheme Overview Page.
EXTERNAL STUDENT AND RESEARCHER ACCESS SCHEME
External students, post-doc researchers and academics from outside of the University of Cambridge are invited to apply for funding up to £5k to access Royce equipment at the University for short projects that must be completed by 31 March 2025. Proposals may be submitted to royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk using the External Access Funding Form and will be approved on a first-come-first-served basis.
SME ACCESS SCHEME
SMEs are invited to apply for funding up to £10k in commercial costs to access Royce equipment at the University of Cambridge for projects that must be completed by 31 March 2025. Proposals may be submitted to royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk using the SME Access Funding Form and will be approved on a first-come-first-served basis. Previous SME projects have led to new industry-academic collaborations and allowed SMEs to develop their devices, go back out to investors to raise capital to expand their businesses and create jobs.
ENTREPRENEURIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Royce Cambridge also supports commercialisation activities though sponsoring places on the Cambridge impulse Programme for technology entrepreneurs. These are for University of Cambridge researchers including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers working in advanced materials. Read about Sparxell's success, a Royce sponsored impulse Programme candidate.
Henry Royce also sponsors ten places on EnterpriseTECH at the Cambridge Judge Business School for PhD students and postdocs working in materials science or engineering research. More details here.
CREDITING ROYCE
Any party publishing research that required Royce Facilities in whole, or in part, must acknowledge the support of the Royce explicitly in the associate publication or report. E.g. "This work was supported by the Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials through the Equipment Access Scheme enabling access to the <Royce facility name>. Royce at the University of Cambridge Grant EP/P024947/1 and Sir Henry Royce Institute Recurrant Grant EP/R00661X/1."