THE RESEARCHER EXCHANGE PROGRAMME IS NOW CLOSED
The Researcher Exchange Programme (RXP) is our initiative that aims to promote the development of research cooperation and contacts between the UK and other countries.
The purpose of the Researcher Exchange Programme is to help develop new research links between higher education institutions and research laboratories in the UK and other countries. It aims to encourage mobility and internationalism among postdoctoral researchers for the exchange of information, ideas and knowledge, and for long-term relationship building.
For postdoctoral researchers, spending time in another country offers many advantages; giving them a chance to acquire new cutting-edge-skills, to participate in multicultural research teams and network with others in the same field.
The awards support new links between researchers in the UK and other countries. These are contacts which may have recently been made but have not yet resulted in collaboration.
The RXP awards fund short term exchange visits for postdoctoral researchers to make international connections. These can be a single visit of between two weeks and three months duration, or multiple visits.
The link can be in any area of research, including science, engineering, technology, social sciences and humanities.
To celebrate the forthcoming anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, this year we would also like to invite researchers to apply for our special Darwin RXP awards. If you are a researcher in areas related to evolutionary theory and Darwin’s legacy you can apply for a special RXP award.
Evolutionary theory has also challenged orthodoxy in disciplines across the arts, humanities and the social as well as natural sciences. Given the pervasive influence of Darwin’s ideas, we would also welcome applications from researchers in these and other areas.
For more information, please e-mail science@britishcouncil.org
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