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Outstanding opportunity for high achieving scientists, engineers and artists

May 18, 2004

High achieving scientists, engineers or artists looking to realise a new professional goal now have the ideal opportunity to do so thanks to a new fund worth more than half a million pounds from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), the organization that invests in UK creativity and innovation.

Dream Time supports exceptional achievers who want time to experiment or follow a passion - but who intend to continue with their career and put what they have discovered to good use. Funding is up to £40,000 per Fellowship and can be used on a full or part-time basis, in tandem with professional careers or temporarily away from the constraints of employment.

Dream Time is a development of NESTA's existing Fellowship Programme, which helps talented and creative individuals across science, technology and the arts pursue their ideas and fulfil their potential. It aims make the programme available to a wider audience through an open application system via NESTA's website: www.nesta.org.uk/dreamtime.

As with all its awards, NESTA is looking for people who demonstrate excellence, promise, creativity, innovation and commitment. For Dream Time NESTA is also looking for people who can demonstrate evidence of exceptional achievement. This would include a significant body of work collated over a minimum ten-year period in their field, the ability to work in new ways and a commitment to the proposed area of exploration.

Venu Dhupa, NESTA Fellowships Director said:

"Since 2002 Dream Time has given 16 exceptional individuals in science, technology and the arts the opportunity to challenge thinking in their fields through stepping aside from their professional lives, discovering new skills or being given the tools to progress their work. We are delighted to be able to expand Dream Time further and invite applications for the 16 Fellowships available this year."

Dream Time Fellowships can be for any period of time up to one year and applications are available in four categories: science, technology, art and cross-discipline.

Applications are available from 10 May 2004. The deadline for receiving them is 17:00 on 8 October 2004 and the new Dream Time Fellows will be announced by early 2005.

Since 2002 Dream Time has made sixteen awards in total. Existing Dream Time Fellows include:

Engineer and cartoonist Tim Hunkin received £35,000 to engage people with technology by showing how creative and exciting electricity can be.

Inventor Steve Grand used his £40,000 Fellowship to develop an intelligent living machine, Lucy.

Research scientist and fiction writer Chris McCabe received £26,903 to develop a new way of writing science papers.

Cosmologist Janna Levin received £40,000 to become the first official scientist in residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art at Oxford University.

National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)