Pre-announcement of call and Expression of interest for workshop participation closes: 13th October 12:00pm

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13 October 2019, 12:00pm
BBSRC-led UKRI call: Transforming the UK food system for healthy people and a healthy environment call and workshops
https://bbsrc.ukri.org/funding/filter/transforming-the-uk-food-system/
https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/spf-food-system/spf-food-systems/

UKRI will shortly announce a call for research to fundamentally transform the UK food system, by placing healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre.
Proposals will be invited for interdisciplinary consortia to take a food systems approach, linking healthy and accessible diets with sustainable food production and supply to help drive food system transformation.

This challenge will require collaboration across multiple disciplines, for example agri-food, environmental, nutritional and social sciences (including expertise in soil science, crop and animal production, aquaculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services, systems engineers, data science, agricultural economics, food science, food manufacturing, food markets, nutrition, biomedical and clinical science, epidemiology, economics, behavioural, social and political science). It will also require collaboration with multiple stakeholders, for example government, industry and civil society.

This programme will address health, environmental and social challenges simultaneously, and will bring together researchers and stakeholders to provide evidence for multi-pronged and simultaneous action across the food system.

This is the first call of a wider £47.5 million interdisciplinary research programme led by the Global Food Security Programme (GFS) and supported by UKRI’s Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF).
The call is administered by BBSRC, and partners include ESRC, MRC, NERC, Defra, Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC), Public Health England (PHE), Innovate UK and Food Standards Agency (FSA).

Workshops
Two workshops will be held to communicate more details about the research call and facilitate networking.
Attendance at the workshop is not mandatory for applicants to the research calls.

• Manchester (city centre) Monday 21st October
• London (central) Friday 25th October
Workshops will run from 10:30 – 16:30 on both days.

Expression of interest for workshop participation closes: 13th October 12:00pm

Attendance will be confirmed by: 15th October (Manchester event) and 17th October (London event)

How to apply
• To express your interest in attending one of the workshops please complete the key survey at https://app.keysurvey.co.uk/f/1438509/109e/
• With limited space available, UKRI reserve the right to manage attendance to ensure an appropriate balance of expertise and institutional representation.
• Attendees are encouraged to get in touch to discuss accessibility or attendance needs.

If anyone applies and gets a place on one of these Workshops, I’d be grateful if you could let your Research Funding Development Manager (RFDM) gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk know.