date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:19:43 +0100 from: J.A.Halliday@rl.ac.uk subject: draft of outline bid to: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk Dear Mike, First - admin matters : 1) A letter of endorsement has been written and should be signed and posted (to Trevor) to Monday; 2) I will complete the CV pro-forma over the weekend; 3) I will email a logo file on Monday. I was impressed by your first draft and also by John Shepherd's comments. I have re-read the call and compared it with the drafts. I would make the following points (Note: typos etc are detailed later) : a) I do not think that we 'sell' the strengths of the consortium nearly well enough - we have assembled key experts in a wide range of areas and should specifically say so in both the Opening statement and the Applicants Section b) Suggested Research Agenda : para 2 - must delete the phrase 'if developed into research Programmes for the final proposal' as these words give the impression of uncertainty. Need a new name for Challenges - Themes perhaps or Programmes as you have Programme Leaders c) Challenge 2 - Where has energy efficiency gone ? How about either the Renewables Challenge or Energy Supply (the later would allow you a brief mention of nuclear matters though I would stress the word brief as I for one think that Nuclear is already well covered by other bodies). I am drafting some text for this whole section as I think we need to a) mention the UK Renewables target, b) EPSRC's new RNET programme of funding, c) the Govt White Paper, links to the renewable industries etc. I will try to do this over the weekend and email it to you on/before Monday morning. d)Meeting the Objectives... Collaboration in UK and abroad - perhaps mention FPV funding schemes for mobility of young researchers. Relevant and strategic - need to mention EPSRC Networks and its Public Understanding of Science schemes (again I will draft some text). Attract Additional funding : need to mention the increased DTI budget for Renewables R&D (again I will draft some text) and the close links we have with industry (renewable and others). Need to be positive - sell expertise of partners in tapping funding sources.. gearing of Centre funds [eg Centre could offer feasibility study grants to pump-prime work which would lead to applications to other bodies (eg EU)]. e) p16 - an operations timetable - need to specifically mention the setting up of a comprehensive WWW site with public and private pages.... f) on page 3 of the call- para 3 starting Global climate models... it says that a significant challenge for the new centre is .... I am NOT sure we have explicitly addressed the question - esp local and regional scales, cut down model etc g) perhaps in Suggested Research Agenda intro need to specifically mention existing close links with Hadley, UGAMP, UKICP, IPCC..... and say will work closely with and compliment ... The list of typos and small changes(done on John Shepherd's version of the draft) : 1)p3, line 1 - double comma ,, 2)p3, line 7 - major cultural divides -> major cultural and organisational divides 3)p3, last line - double full stop .. 4)p4, list of names -Markvart - Dr not Prof 5)p7 - management structure : bullet point one : line 2 scientists We -> scientists. We 6)p7 - management structure : bullet point 2 : delete open square bracket [ 7)p7 - management structure : bullet point 3 : need a little explanation after the Programme Leaders if only to say 'whose role is described below' 8)p7 - management structure : text after bullet points : Council's -> Councils 9)p7 - ditto - ditto : if the Soton & UMIST reps are well known figures then I think they should be named now 10)p7 - ditto - ditto - need to define the Centre's Science Co-ordinator and Communications Manager - is this one post or two ? what are their role's ? how is the Science Co-ordinatoir different from the PL's or the ED ? 11) p8 - line 1 - I thought the Management Team mtgs should be MUCH MORE FREQUENT than every six months, if not then what body/person is running things in the interim ? 12) p8, para 2, line 3 'responsible to implement' -> 'responsible for implementing' 13) p8 ditto, last line - double full stop .. 14) p8, para 3, line 2 : this JIF -> a recent JIF 14) p8, ditto, ditto, office accommodation has -> office accommodation has already 15) p9, para 2 line 2 - double full stop .. 16) p9, challenge 1, para 2, line 3 double full stop .. 17) p10, challenge 2 line 2 delete [and alternative] 18) p12, challenge 5 para 1, line 5 double full stop .. 19) p12, ditto, ditto, line 9 ?. to ? 20) p13, para 2 methodsl -> methods 21) p19, Jim Halliday, line 2 Director, Energy -> Head of the Energy 22) p20, Nick Jenkins, email address -> n.jenkins@umist.ac.uk 23) p21, Jonathan Kohler, email address -> j.kohler@econ.acm.ac.uk 24) p21, Tom Markvart : details are School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton email T.Markvart@soton.ac.uk I hope that all this is useful. I will work on it a bit more over the weekend. Jim Halliday Dr Jim Halliday Head of the Energy Research Unit CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton DIDCOT OXON OX11 0QX Tel : +44 (0) 1235-44-5559 Fax : +44 (0) 1235-44-6863 Email : J.Halliday@RL.AC.UK URL:http://www.eru.rl.ac.uk/