Global Consortium for Systems Research

Venture Strategy Group at Unbuilt Labs, Innovator in Residence (IIR)
We are pleased to support the next generation of high-impact research organizations solving grand challenges. Founders make critical decisions during the early stages, but the current research ecosystem offers little support during the discovery and exploration process. We offer a one of its kind pay-what-you-want Innovator in Residence (IIR) Program, where founders looking to set up solutions-oriented research organizations receive 1 year of support through monthly 1:1 Advising Sessions. We can help you clarify your Theory of Change or mandate, design a research agenda, and more generally, offer sound advice. This program is open to founders who have received less than 100k USD in financing.

Wellcome Trust, Discovery Research
By funding ambitious, curiosity-driven research across a range of academic disciplines, we can give researchers from different backgrounds the resources they need to take on big questions and overcome barriers to progress. Discovery Research funding is available across three awards for researchers at various stages of their careers. Wellcome Early-Career Awards: this award supports researchers to establish their independence and trajectory in discovery research. Wellcome Career Development Awards: for mid-career researchers who are ready to lead a substantial, innovative research programme and achieve international standing. Wellcome Discovery Awards: this award supports established researchers and teams.

Sante Fe Institute, Postdoctoral Research Fellows
SFI postdoctoral fellows are selected from around the world and across science for their intellectual curiosity, quantitative rigor, and multidisciplinary creativity. The SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are funded by gifts from Pam and Pierre Omidyar, the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Schmidt Foundation and from individual donors and other sources. Chosen during an annual selection process, these fellows pursue independent research agendas. Program Postdoctoral Fellows are grant funded. They are chosen by the grant PI and their research agenda is grant related.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), YSSP and Postdoctoral Fellowships
As an early career researcher at IIASA you are integrated into a research group of typically 10-20 researchers, from junior to senior, as well as into a bigger IIASA research program that typically covers several research groups. Within your research group you are likely addressing challenges with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues with different backgrounds, trained in different modes of thinking. IIASA offers the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) for PhD students, and a range of Postdoc opportunities including fully funded research positions of up to two years to study topics related to the IIASA research agenda.

Cornell Engineering, Ph.D. Systems
Active areas of research include: Multi-agent simulation framework for cooperative observing systems of systems; Patterns in architectural decisions and fast problem formulation in system architecture; Extreme weather forecasting using constellations of nanosatellites; Improved human-computer interaction for design of complex systems; Integrated materials and process design for carbon capture systems; Cyber-physical infrastructure and informatics for healthy living in smart cities; Enhancing the food security through sustainable regional food systems development; Forecasting evacuation behaviors of coastal communities in response to storm hazard information; Willingness to improve the resiliency of New York City’s transportation system; Pharmaceutical manufacturing modeling and control; and Systems design of chemical manufacturing from shale gas.

MIT Sloan School of Management, Ph.D. System Dynamics
System Dynamics was founded at MIT Sloan in 1956 by Professor Jay W. Forrester. This discipline combines the theory, methods, and philosophy needed to analyze the behavior of systems — not only in management, but also in such other fields as environmental change, politics, economic behavior, medicine, and engineering. A concentration in System Dynamics draws on organization studies, behavioral decision theory, and engineering to provide a common foundation for understanding and influencing how things change over time. Students study principles of systems, economic and industrial dynamics, and policy analysis, while doing additional work in economics, information systems, statistics, and political science.

University of Warwick, Ph.D. MathSys (Mathematics for Real-World Systems) CDT
Your project should be in the area of “Mathematics for Real-World Systems”. The CDT’s bid for funding to the EPSRC was based principally on four application areas, and your project should align closely with one of these: (1) Quantitative biomedical research; (2) Mathematical epidemiology; (3) Socio-technical systems; (4) Advanced modelling and optimisation of industrial processes. Additionally, your project must align with at least one of the EPSRC funding council’s key research areas. Your project must involve a named external partner, and two supervisors.

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. City and Regional Planning
The Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, provides training in urban and planning theory, advanced research, and the practice of planning. We are focused on three challenges facing cities and regions around the globe. The first is widening inequalities and disparities with respect to income and wealth, race, quality of education and urban services, access to employment opportunities, and environmental health. The second is global climate change and resource scarcity, as increasingly complex threats challenge the ability of cities to function after major disruptions and displacements, whether sudden or gradual. And the third is growing demands for clean, healthy, reliable, and accessible public infrastructure and urban services. Creative analysis, planning, and design are needed to effectively manage these problems.

University of Technology, Australia, Ph.D. Transdisciplinary Innovation
In simple terms, transdisciplinary (TD) research is primarily a process, not a product. It typically involves: (1) Mixing academic knowledges from multiple disciplines; (2) Mixing applied knowledges through collaboration with industry; and (3) Co-design with stakeholders through a human-centred approach. The production of new (TD) knowledge usually requires close collaboration with one or more industry partners, who may even co-design the study, alongside other design contributions by other academics. Through this collaboration, the new knowledge is co-produced. Projects will go through phases or moments of being more or less TD. Themes include: (1) Futures; (2) Sustainable Societies; (3) Technology and Humanity; and (4) Transformative Learning.

Deep Science Ventures, Venture Science Doctorate (VSD)
Deep Science Ventures is launching a new PhD program, the Venture Science Doctorate, to put venture at the heart of research. VSD is an alternative. A 3-year, fully-funded, sector-agnostic PhD program, running our proven innovation model. It’s awarded by Deep Science Ventures College; an independently accredited, decentralised institution.  We have partnered with leading institutions, who are supporting across research and venture creation. Collaborating institutions include the Henry Royce Institute, the James Hutton Institute, Imperial College, the University of Edinburgh, University College London, Goldsmiths, University of London, Cornell University and the Mayo Clinic.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK

London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP)
Led by University College London, along with King's College London, Queen Mary University of London, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Royal College

London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP)
Led by University College London, along with King's College London, Queen Mary University of London, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Royal College of Art, the London School of Economics & Political Science, and the University of London.

Open-Oxford-Cambridge
Led by the University of Oxford, along with the University of Cambridge and the Open University.

South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Consortium 2 (SWW2)
Led by the University of Bristol, along with Aberystwyth University, Bath Spa University, Cardiff University, Cranfield University, the University of Exeter, the University of Reading, the University of Southampton, the University of the West of England and the National Museum Wales.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK

East of Scotland Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (EASTBIO)
Led by the University of Edinburgh, along with the University of Aberdeen, the University of Dundee, the University of St Andrews and the University of Stirling.

London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme (LIDo)
Led by University College London, along with Birkbeck University of London, King's College London, the Royal Veterinary College, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary University of London.

Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP)
Led by the University of Warwick, along with Aston University, the University of Birmingham, Harper Adams University and the University of Leicester.

Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP
Led by the University of Oxford, along with Oxford Brookes University.

FoodBioSystems DTP
Led by the University of Reading, along with Cranfield University, the University of Surrey, Queen's University Belfast, Aberysrwyth University and Brunel University London.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK

Cambridge Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
Based at the University of Cambridge.

Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership
Led by the University of Oxford, along with the Open University and Brunel University London.

Northern Ireland and North East (NINE) Doctoral Training Partnership
Led by Durham University, along with Newcastle University, Northumbria University, Queen’s University of Belfast, Teesside University, Ulster University and the University of Sunderland.

North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership
Led by the University of Liverpool, along with Keele University, Lancaster University and the University of Manchester.

Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership
Led by the University of Edinburgh, along with the University of Aberdeen, the University of Dundee, Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University, Heriot-Watt University, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, the University of St Andrews, the University of Stirling, the University of Strathclyde and SRUC.

Wales Doctoral Training Partnership
Led by Cardiff University, along with Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, the University of Gloucestershire and Swansea University.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineered Tissues for Discovery, Industry and Medicine (lifETIME)
Led by the University of Glasgow, along with Aston University and the University of Birmingham.

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI)
Based at Queen Mary University of London and the University of York.

Medical Research Council (MRC), UK

Cambridge MRC Doctoral Training Partnership
Led by the University of Cambridge, along with the Babraham Institute.

Great West 4 (GW4)
Led by Cardiff University, along with the University of Bath, the University of Bristol and the University of Exeter.

London Intercollegiate DTP
Led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, along with St George’s University of London.

Oxford MRC Doctoral Training Partnership
Based at the University of Oxford.

Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme
Led by the University of Edinburgh, along with the University of Glasgow.

Trials Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP)
Led by the Medical Research Council.

UCL-Birkbeck MRC DTP
Led by University College London, along with Birkbeck College.

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK

Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet (SSCP) DTP
Based at Imperial College London.

One Planet DTP2
Led by Newcastle University, along with Northumbria University.

London DTP2
Led by University College London, along with Birkbeck, University of London, Brunel University London, King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London.

QUADRAT DTP
Led by the University of Aberdeen, along with Queen’s University Belfast.

Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) DTP
Based at the University of Cambridge.

Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment (ACCE) DTP
Led by the University of Liverpool, along with the University of Sheffield and the University of York.

Environmental Research DTP
Based at the University of Oxford.

Science of the Environment, Natural and Anthropogenic Processes, Impacts and Opportunities (SCENARIO) DTP
Led by the University of Reading, along with the University of Surrey.

Scottish Universities Partnership for Environmental Research (SUPER) DTP
Led by the University of St Andrews, along with the University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh Napier University, Heriot-Watt University, the University of the Highlands & Islands, University of Stirling, University of Strathclyde and the University of the West of Scotland.

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK

Cambridge Data Intensive Science CDT
Based at the University of Cambridge.

UCL's Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science
Based at University College London.