Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£7,250,000
Maximum award:
£7,250,000
Publication date:
12 May 2026
Opening date:
12 May 2026 9:00am UK time
Closing date:
7 July 2026 4:00pm UK time
EPSRC wishes to support a UK Ultra-high Field NMR National Research Facility that will provide access to a range of cutting-edge instruments for high and ultra-high field solid-state and solution-state NMR. The facility must also provide users with expert support and advice on advanced NMR techniques to enable excellent research spanning disciplinary boundaries.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. This opportunity is invite only.
The funding available is up to £7.25 million.
EPSRC will award a five-year grant of up to £7.25 million. Depending on the cost-recovery plan, we expect the project’s FEC to be more than £12.1 million, based on a minimum overall cost recovery target of 40% FEC.
Only invited applicants can apply to this opportunity.
This opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) standard eligibility rules apply. For full details, visit .
International applicants
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Equality, diversity and inclusion
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Demand management
Demand management is not being applied to this funding opportunity.
Scope
Following UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s investment in two ultra-high field 1.2 GHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) systems, we now wish to establish a UK Ultra-high Field NMR National Research Facility.
This facility will provide the UK research community with cost-effective, efficient, and ready access to ultra -high field NMR spectrometers offering different field strengths, configurations and probes for a wide range of solution and solid-state NMR measurements. The facility should leverage the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI)’s cutting edge data infrastructure and resources to enable users to share, combine and analyse data more easily. This will drive, and accelerate innovative world leading research across the chemical, material and life sciences which advances knowledge, improves lives and drives growth.
The facility is expected to effectively integrate with the broader UK NMR landscape and should address the requirements of a diverse range of users. Account must be taken of the balance between solid and solution-state users, and researchers working across a broad range of application areas. These areas are expected to include, but not limited to, inorganic materials, organic polymers, drug discovery and studies of complex biological systems of relevance to the life sciences.
From the outset the facility is required to adopt practices that ensure a diverse user base, improved team inclusion, and support for researchers with disabilities. These might include structural adaptions to allow physical lab access and remote access solutions. The approaches are expected to evolve during the lifespan of the award to further improve access.
The facility must provide ongoing effective support and development of the next generation of researchers, skilled instrument scientists and research technical professionals (RTPs), through training on the most advanced NMR instruments. It must act as a beacon for researchers who use and develop NMR techniques and a focal point for the development of new techniques and best practice. To this end it is expected to work with relevant industry partners to carry out software, technique and instrument development to generate new cutting-edge tools for the community.
The facility is expected to actively promote ultra-high field NMR and grow the user base by bringing in new academic and industrial users, and new companies from across the UK and overseas. It should provide new communities and non-traditional users with a single point of access to a community of solid-state and solution NMR experts. The facility is expected to support the triaging of users to the most appropriate nationally available NMR instruments for their experimental need.
For more information on the background of this funding opportunity, go to the Additional information section.
Duration
The award made via this funding opportunity will have a fixed start date of 5 January 2027. The duration of this award is five years.
Funding available
The funding will be provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with other research council funding considered based on community specific user demand.
Your application must include a realistic approach to cost-recovery. You must identify non-UKRI sources of funding in case you do not meet the cost-recovery targets. UKRI will not cover shortfalls in cost recovery targets.
We expect the project’s full economic cost to be approximately £12.1 million. We will fund one five-year project for up to £7.25 million, based on a minimum overall cost recovery target of 40%.
EPSRC reserves the right to adjust the total funding awarded in response to budget allocations across UKRI.
A non-standard profile for expenditure will be agreed between the host institution and EPSRC before the grant is authorised, and funding is allocated. You should provide, as part of the case for support, a preferred expenditure profile for the full duration of the grant. EPSRC expects the profile to taper off during the lifetime of the grant in accordance with the cost-recovery targets, as the facility becomes more self-sustaining.
EPSRC reserves the right to adjust the profile of the funding allocation prior to award or during the grant following consultation with successful applicants.
The resource costs must be made as follows with the actual requested costs adjusted to reflect the cost-recovery plan:
* funding for the core team and public engagement activities should be costed at the normal minimum 80% FEC (with applied for costs adjusted to reflect your cost-recovery plan)
* all other costs are expected to relate to the running of the National Facility and should be recorded under the “Directly Incurred – Exceptions” heading which are normally costed at 100% FEC (with applied for costs adjusted to reflect your cost-recovery plan)
What we will fund
Funding can include costs associated with software, technique and instrument developments necessary for providing equipment and tools for internationally relevant ultra-high field solid-state and solution-state NMR experiments over the project duration. Funding is expected to include technical effort to support new users with varying levels of prior experience, from a wide and diversified community of users.
What we will not fund
No costs for research effort will be provided.
Equipment over £25,000 in value (including VAT) is not available through this funding opportunity.
Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
A national research facility is expected to champion and embed EDI in all their activities throughout the lifetime of the investment. If funded, this will include identifying the specific EDI challenges and barriers in their own environment and developing a strategy to address these, with reference to EPSRC’s published expectations for EDI. The research centre should ensure that they request appropriate resources to champion and embed their EDI approach effectively.
Key requirements for service
The service will provide researchers with access to state-of-the-art NMR instruments, expertise and technical capabilities to tackle research questions from academia and industry. Areas covered include, but are not limited to, the physical sciences, materials, biomedical sciences and life sciences. The facility is expected to be user driven, and act as a focal point for driving forward leading-edge technique development and applications of ultra-high field NMR. The facility must take a leadership position within the international research and innovation community and must describe where it sits within the national and international NMR infrastructure landscape. It is expected to take proactive steps to engage with and enhance user access to the broader national NMR infrastructure landscape.
As a minimum, the service must meet the following requirements.
Instrumentation and technical capability
You must provide access to state-of-the-art solid-state and solution-state NMR instruments with a range of field strengths including ≥850MHz field strength and wide bore capability maximising outputs from recent UKRI investments in ultra-high field NMR spectroscopy.
You must clearly demonstrate the facility’s benefits to a wide community of users from the biomedical, life and physical sciences and describe the engagement undertaken to determine the technical requirements and demand from different user communities.
Users will require access to a wide range of probe capabilities in addition to ultra-high field NMR instruments, and you must describe how available capability and development of new capabilities addresses the broadest range of user needs now and into the future. Capability must include but is not limited to:
* multinuclear approaches including a comprehensive range of quadrupolar nuclei
* wide range of cryoprobe capability for biomolecular solution-state NMR
* magic-angle spinning (MAS) technology (including ultra-fast) for solid-state NMR
* time resolved experiments
* different sample environments
* dilute and low gamma nuclei
Offline tools must be provided to increase efficiency and productivity of the facility, such as:
* remote access to NMR pulse sequence development software pre-experiment to enable NMR pulse sequences to be debugged and checked prior to implementation by users on the NMR equipment itself. Where a new pulse sequence is developed by a user, the code must be made available to other users via a library of pulse sequences (once the pulse sequence has been published)
* data storage, processing and software tools for NMR spectroscopy with remote access for external users. The data infrastructure provided is expected to integrate with the and BioFAIR, and be an asset for the whole UK community. Analysis tools are expected to appropriately service the requirements of a wide variety of disciplines and application areas
Technical, scientific and training support for users
You should consider the needs of different user groups, such as:
* students
* academic researchers
industrial user
* researchers in or outside host organisations
* new and experienced users
The facility should provide expert advice, support and training to all users. This should be via information and appropriately tailored training packages that as a minimum must provide:
* guidance for the user on their likely user experience. This is anticipated to be different for different levels of user, such as novice, experienced or expert user
* access to expert advice and support for users from across a range of relevant disciplines and application areas
* training provision in equipment use in accordance with user needs to include face-to-face training, hands-on instruction and support by electronic media in virtual meetings
* site safety training at levels relevant to the user
* experimental design and feasibility, including triaging requirements for best fit to nationally available ultra-high field NMR instrumentation within and beyond the national research facility
* access to a central suite of data processing and analytic tools, and expert assistance on using tools and interpreting data and results appropriate for the experience and discipline of the user
* sample preparation and storage facilities, including the ability to receive, handle and store samples from remote users
The facility should include plans for engaging with future generations of researchers, including doctoral focal awards (previously named ).
Operational requirements
Applications must meet the following operational requirements. These must continue over the lifetime of the grant. Plans and resource requests for these purposes must be clear in the application.
You must detail and justify the expected balance between the following, referencing the planned cost-sharing strategy as appropriate:
* user type from within and outside host organisations, academic and industrial users
* experiment type
* solid and solution-state NMR operation for dual-mode instruments
* time that will be dedicated to the various categories of use, for example, user experiments, technique development, instruments maintenance and calibration
* access type, such as charged usage, fast-track, free-at-the-point of access
You must operate a suitable, fair and transparent process for prioritising, allocating and scheduling instrument time for user access. This must address how considerations such as but not limited to assessment of scientific quality, diversification of the user base, variety of access routes (charged usage, fast-track, free-at-the-point of access), and training will be tensioned in the process. Details should be given of options for a percentage of the facility to be open to researchers in areas beyond the EPSRC’s remit, interdisciplinary researchers and business customers. This should make reference to the planned cost-sharing strategy as appropriate. The time allocation process must embed equality, diversity, and inclusion considerations.
Communication and engagement strategy
The facility is expected to actively grow and diversify the user base (new universities, new research organisations, different research communities and new industrial users and companies) over the lifetime of the grant. You should provide details about how you will assess the current and future size of the user base, your communication and engagement strategy to advocate for NMR and reach new user communities and what growth you expect to achieve in the user base.
Consideration should be given to how the facility will work with the wider solution and solid-state NMR community to manage and triage user demand, with the aim of optimising the match between the user’s experimental requirements and nationally available ultra-high field NMR instruments.
For the duration of the grant the facility must maintain an accessible and fit for purpose website which fully complies with accessibility best practise, and:
* promotes the facility and demonstrates the capabilities offered
* showcases the world leading outputs enabled, including case studies
* provides a clear first point of contact, information on the procedure to gain instrument access, and training opportunities
* provides remote access to data, and software for data processing and analysis
* sets out service level agreements to the academic and industrial communities in the UK and abroad
* gives the leadership, executive and management structure of the facility
* links to the facility’s policies on ethics, responsible research and innovation, trusted research and innovation, data management, and equality, diversity and inclusion. Along with an environmental plan and a health and safety management plan
You are expected to include key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreement (SLAs) that the facility will aspire to meeting. These KPIs and SLAs could be based on the collection of usage statistics in line with relevant GDPR regulations and grant conditions. The facility must be able to report on individual users and record which equipment and services they used, the number of experiments carried out, and whether they obtained the data they sought. Usage data and user consultation should inform decision making regarding capability developments, user engagement, service improvements and future provision.
You will provide a plan with details on how the capability of the facility and associated preparatory, storage and ancillary equipment will be maintained. This should include details of agreements with the appropriate equipment manufacturer for upgrading and developing the equipment and facility, and a consideration of how these costs might be reduced over the lifetime of the grant. Outline plans for routine servicing (daily, weekly and monthly) and preventive maintenance (quarterly and annually) should be provided, in addition to details of local technical expertise for equipment maintenance and repair.
The facility must have a data management plan that is compliant with UKRI open data policy and extends beyond the lifetime of the grant. This must include appropriate and robust systems and procedures to ensure data protection during collection, storage, processing, remote access and secure downloads of research data taking account of:
* intellectual property sensitive results
* confidential access to data, with reasonable controls and processes in place that meet UKRI’s commitment to Trusted Research and Innovation (TR&I)
The facility must utilise instruments to a maximum extent, with an aim of working towards 24/7 operation using extended hours working together with remote or programmed operation. You should detail the expected level of available time and how you will ensure the highest standards of operation at all times. This should include managing staff needs to do with work-life balance, in conjunction with the provision of appropriate out-of-hours support for users, policies and procedures.
We expect you to embed careful consideration of environmental sustainability into all aspects of the facility’s operation, with plans to minimise the use of energy and other consumables, and options for virtual engagement to reduce the impact of travel .
The facility must have a:
* policy for how the facility will be acknowledged in publications, presentations and other outputs attributable to the service
* strategy for capturing evidence of impacts over the short, medium and long term. This should include an approach for measuring, reviewing and reporting impacts over the lifetime of the grant in order to demonstrate the added value of the facility
You should provide a clear transition plan to cover the period between the end date of the current UK High-Field Solid-State NMR NRF (4 January 2027 ) and establishment of a ‘fully operational service’ via the successful grant application. You should state in your proposal how much time you will require for a transition period to ensure continuity of service from 5 January 2027.
People, management and governance arrangements
The facility must meet the following requirements.
The facility must be led by an excellent team which is capable of:
* community building
* assessing community scientific needs and maximising the capabilities of the equipment to meet user needs
* managing the operational aspects of a facility to meet user and staff requirements
* gaining the confidence of the community as experts on state-of-the-art solution-state and solid-state NMR technologies
There will be the nominated director that will be ultimately responsible for the execution of any grant. This named person shall have an international reputation in NMR spectroscopy and the ability to work constructively with multiple stakeholders and funders. Co-directors with a distinct role can also be included if fully justified.
There must be a nominated technical (or operational) director who will manage and lead the delivery of the facility. This may or may not be the same person as the nominated director. In the submitted documents please clearly identify who will fulfil both posts and also provide evidence of their ability to accomplish their roles and deliver the facility both operationally and strategically.
The facility should have a clear and appropriate governance and management structure, including an independent advisory board that reflects a diverse user community. There must be clear separation of duties between any management boards, advisory boards and allocation panels and robust and transparent procedures for appointing and replacing members. A diagrammatic organogram of the proposed organisational structure should be provided.
You should consider how the short and long-term impact of the facility is measured and used to demonstrate the added value of the facility during the lifetime of the award. The facility should demonstrate at least yearly that it has met the community need and communicated with the diverse needs of the user base. This could be via case studies published on the facility website.
You should give details of the staffing plans for the facility and evidence of how the staff expertise will meet the needs of the broad user community. The submitted management plan must include:
* measures to safeguard facility continuity in the event of the proposed director leaving or other senior staff changes
* consideration of the single-point failure risk for all key staff needed for optimal facility operation, including the maintenance of an effective website
an operational and strategic risk management strategy including a risk register focussed on achieving the highest productivity of the facility and a strategy for reducing risks or ameliorating their impact
* continued support and development of instrument scientists, research technical professionals (RTPs), and PDRAs associated with the operation of the facility. UKRI recognise this as being core to the successful running of the facility
The facility should have appropriate management processes in place to support and improve user access including:
* a health and safety policy that covers training of new users and assessment of user competency to use the facility
* robust Intellectual Property and confidentiality procedures for industrial users
* a process via which users can raise a request, complaint or issue about any aspect of the service, and a procedure for resolution within 10 working days.
You should detail how user feedback will be managed, analysed and used to implement facility improvements
Any grants awarded from this funding opportunity will be expected to review performance against agreed KPIs and SLAs that the facility will aspire to meet. You must identify a comprehensive set of KPIs that you propose to use for facility performance measurement and management. Proposed KPIs are expected to cover all aspects of the facility’s key requirements, and could cover:
* the disciplinary split of users or the breadth of the research areas, fields, and topics supported by the facility, highlighting any new areas
* the number of service users broken down by expert and non-expert and returning and new users
* the department and university profile of users and number of industry users
* the number of samples processed, with a broad indication of time
* growth in usage, via usage figures for different instruments as a percentage of working hours and 24/7, as appropriate
* service improvements, via user satisfaction average scores
* the number of complaints
* list of papers and highlights published, along with new methodologies and capabilities that have been developed
* the number of grant applications submitted and the success rate
* the costs recovered via grants, and from other sources (progress towards increased sustainability will form a key KPI)
The facility is expected to take a leadership and advocacy role in the relevant communities. Leadership in this context might involve:
* demonstrating value of the service to the user community including uniqueness, meeting user need and high levels of usage
* supporting and contributing to the development of future capital or infrastructure strategy, for example NMR roadmaps or infrastructure reviews. The facility should retain knowledge of the (inter)national landscape and where they sit within it, and how these feed into the facility’s strategy
* outreach, and working with others outside the facility
* capturing, reporting and maximising impact. This should include producing case studies that highlight relevance to UKRI mission and priorities
Cost sharing and sustainability
EPSRC is committed to providing cost effective national research facilities that complement, but do not undercut provision within the wider national infrastructure landscape. EPSRC continues to support national research facilities by providing recurrent funding to maximise facility impact and broaden the user base. However, in line with other national research facilities, EPSRC will not fund the entirety of the facility and requires a percentage of the recurrent (resource) costs for the facility operation to be recovered each year through charged usage. For the avoidance of doubt, in this context, recurrent costs mean operational expenditure that is not equipment spend.
Below sets out what EPSRC considers to be reasonable minimum cost recovery targets for a UK Ultra-high Field NMR National Research Facility over a five-year funding period. You may wish to propose alternative targets and are welcome to describe how further savings might be made and used to fund enhanced facility activities and capabilities.
These should be reflected in the proposed grant payment profile that will need to be provided as part of the application:
* year one, 30% of recurrent (resource) costs to be recovered
* year two, 35% of recurrent (resource) costs to be recovered
* year three, 40% of recurrent (resource) costs to be recovered
* year four, 45% of recurrent (resource) costs to be recovered
* year five, 50% of recurrent (resource) costs to be recovered
You must detail the proposed approach toward meeting your cost-recovery targets and provide evidence that the approach ensures optimal utilisation of the leading-edge facility equipment by a variety of user types (see Operational requirements). EPSRC expects you to identify non-UKRI sources of funding to underwrite the cost-recovery plan in the event of targets not being met which should be documented in letters of support.
The proposal should include details on the proposed charging model, and how it would operate for different types of user, different access routes or both. The definition of the different charging-categories in the charging model should be included, as well as consideration of how charged usage will dovetail with free at the point of access facility usage and how this may affect prioritisation of experiments. You should describe how different access routes will be managed to protect the proposed balance of different users as detailed under ‘Operational requirements’.
A vision for the long-term future sustainability of the service should be presented. This should describe how continuous provision would be achieved if future funding were not available.
If, following expert review, EPSRC considers that insufficient effort has been made to detail a cost-effective facility it may, in discussion with the project-lead or director, alter the profile of a successful grant to return maximum value to UK research users.
Progress towards increased financial sustainability will form a key KPI of the successful grant and will be reviewed by the independent advisory body and at the mid-term review.
Your organisation’s support
The facility should be run for the benefit of the national research community. The research council funders therefore pay the majority of the costs as ‘Directly Incurred – exceptions’ at a level determined by the agreed and bespoke costing model for this infrastructure. So, it is important that the host organisations also commit to fully supporting the bid, as detailed in the host organisation letters. As a minimum they must commit to:
* relinquishing rights to university owned equipment for external users at the levels detailed in the application
* underwriting the meeting of the cost-recovery targets, in order to provide staff and other resource costs if targets are not met
* providing appropriate support and development opportunities for all staff, including instrument scientists and research technical professionals (RTPs) associated with the operation of the facility
* long term (beyond the duration of the grant) data storage and retrieval facilities in line with UKRI data policies
* supporting you to develop and implement policies that provide safe, secure and legal access for external users to the facility
* supporting you to utilise expertise on the design, creation and maintenance of a fit-for-purpose website for marketing, user support and data collection
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