Deadline: 4pm, 22 March 2018
Duration: 48 months, to start in 2018
Amount: £1.25m @ 100%fEC, (£9-10m budget for six and ten awards that will, collectively, address the breadth of research areas). No limit of applications per RO.
The aim of the call is to encourage the creation of multi-disciplinary networks that cross the remit boundaries of the research councils. These networks will address important mental health research questions that require an innovative, cross-disciplinary approach to accelerate progress; to build cross-disciplinary research capacity in the field; and to strengthen the UK mental health research base.
The call has been informed by the research councils recently published Cross-disciplinary Mental Health Research Agenda (RCUK website) which represents their collective interest in supporting and furthering mental health research. It encourages areas where high quality cross-disciplinary research could add the most value and impact to the broader mental health research landscape through novel and transformative research.
Research areas:
- Understanding mental health and mental health problems
- Connection between physical and mental health
- Public health, prevention and wellbeing
- Living with mental health problems
Cross-cutting themes:
- Effective intervention(s)
- Technology and data
- Lifestyle and behaviour
- Inequalities
- Empowerment, ethics, confidentiality and trust
As well as helping to build cross-disciplinary capacity within the mental health research field and facilitating knowledge exchange, the successful networks will be able to fund small research projects that will answer specific research questions relevant to one or more of the research area(s) listed above.
The additional planned activities and objectives could include running workshops and other networking events, funding short discipline hops, and feeding into policy and practice.
In addition each network will set aside an appropriate amount of ‘plus’ funds that can be used for organising activities open to the whole research community throughout the period of the award.
It is expected that the application process for network plus funded activities will allow for applicants from outside of the network to participate, thereby drawing more people into the community of researchers.
Applications for network plus awards should outline appropriate plans, including timelines, governance and assessment criteria, for the distribution of ‘plus’ funding.
Please ensure to read the full call guidance documents and FAQs available through the link above.
If you are thinking of applying, please could you email Dr Gwen Averley and Darren Airey so that we are aware of potentially overlapping bids.