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Strategic LoLa Committee

Membership

The Strategic LoLa Committee (SLC) comprises:

• 3 members of BBSRC Council (2 academic and 1 industrial)
• Chairs and Deputy Chairs of the 4 Research Committees
• Chairs of Follow-on fund and Committee E 

In attendance: Directors and Deputy Director of BBSRC's Science Group and Innovation and Skills Group, and Heads of Strategy Sectors.

Terms of reference

• To evaluate Strategic LoLa proposals at both the outline and full proposal stages and consider their relevance to strategic priorities, impact, and the BBSRC skills and capability agenda
• To integrate the assessment with the scientific evaluation received from the relevant Research Committee
• To ensure that strategic LoLa awards complement existing and future BBSRC funding priorities to provide a balanced portfolio of large research grant investments across the entire BBSRC remit
• To create a rank-ordered list of outlines and use this list to invite a number of full proposals based on the potential available funding, as determined by BBSRC
• To create a rank-ordered list of full proposals and recommend funding of top-ranking proposals. BBSRC Council has a role in overseeing the entire process to ensure transparency

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