Ten Panels for the Marsden Fund

15 December 2009

The Marsden Fund now has ten panels, which conduct the broad, discipline-based assessment of the proposals submitted.  The framework for these panels is given below.  Please note: the Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences (EIS) panel is new.

Biomedical Sciences – research related to human health and disease in: physiology, pathology,  pharmacology, molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, microbiology; neurobiology (including animals as a model species for humans); human genomics and related bioinformatics.

Cellular, Molecular and Physiological Biology – studies related to understanding the activities that occur in cells and tissues, and their integration within living organisms across the biological, agricultural and veterinary sciences. This includes: plant physiology; animal physiology; cell biology; plant and animal genetics; molecular biology and molecular genetics; functional genomics and related bioinformatics; microbiology excluding microbial ecology; animal and plant pathology.

Earth Sciences and Astronomy – including: geology; geophysics; physical geography; oceanography; hydrology; meteorology; atmospheric science; earth sciences; astronomy and astrophysics; also cross-disciplinary topics which include substantial components in some of these areas.

Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour – studies related to the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, evolution and behaviour. This includes: animal, plant and microbial ecology; biogeography; biodiversity; phylogenetics; systematics and evolution; population biology and genetics; animal behaviour; physiological plant ecology; biostatistics and modelling.

Economics and Human & Behavioural Sciences – including: economics; education; psychology (experimental, cognitive, neuro-); cognitive science; linguistics; archaeology; anthropology (other than social anthropology) and demography. (N.B. this list is not exhaustive. Proposals to this panel may also be referred to the Social Sciences panel for additional comment or transferred to that panel if the Council considers it appropriate.)

Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences – including: materials science; engineering (including bioengineering and other cross-disciplinary research activities); operations research; nanotechnology; engineering aspects of computer science, software and hardware engineering; applications and robotics; and engineering aspects of information science.

Humanities – including: English; languages; history; religion; philosophy; law; classics; linguistics; literature; cultural studies; media studies; art history; film.

Mathematical and Information Sciences – including: pure and applied mathematics; statistics; theoretical aspects of computer and information sciences, complexity theory, and logic in computer science.

Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry – including: physics; physical chemistry; organic chemistry; analytical chemistry; inorganic chemistry; biophysics, chemical biology and biochemistry.

Social Sciences – including: sociology; social, developmental, organisational, community and health psychology; social, cultural and human geography; social anthropology; urban design and environmental studies; public health; nursing; public policy; economics; political science; business studies; education; communication science; marketing; socio-linguistics; architecture (N.B. this list is not exhaustive. Proposals to this panel may also be referred to the Economics and Human & Behavioural Sciences panel for additional comment or transferred to that panel if the Council considers it appropriate).

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