How will the £1.9 million be spent?
The main cost items are research costs and personnel costs. Just under half of the awarded sum will be allocated to research projects funded through the grants scheme (£800,000 in total). Three post-doctoral research fellows and a project administrator will be employed over the course of the project. In addition to developing their own programmes of research, the fellows will be primarily responsible for most intellectual infrastructure activities associated with the above activities, including an assessment of empirical needs of the field, development of web resources (e.g., an instrument archive), the development and implementation of cross-training activities, project guidance and collaboration, management of the grants programme, etc. A cross-training workshop will be held in 2009, and a project-end conference will be hosted in 2010.
