Please see below for the latest research funding related information and event updates. In summary, these include:

Item 1: UKRI Public Engagement Update
Item 2: NERC Capital Workshop: Floods and Droughts Resilience
Item 3: EPSRC reopens applications for Strategic Advisory Bodies (Physical Scientist with Expertise in using Large Data)
Item 4: REMINDER Research Grant submissions over the Christmas and New Year period 2019/20
Item 5: Latin American NUCoRE Workshop
Item 6: FINAL REMINDER EPSRC Physical Sciences Theme Early Career workshops – Newcastle 20th November
If you have any questions about the items below please contact a member of the Research Funding Development Team.

Item 1: UKRI Public Engagement Update

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has published its vision for how it will promote world-leading research and innovation that is built on the knowledge and values of society and open to people from all backgrounds.

Its four goals are to:
• Focus on under-represented communities and places;
• Actively involve people in their work;
• Inspire and empower young people;
• Listen to and understand public concerns and aspirations.

These goals will be delivered through funding calls, commissioning research and analysis, and piloting new approaches. Two funding calls have been released:

1. Citizen Science Exploration Grant, a new £400,000 funding call to encourage researchers and innovators to experiment with citizen science. Application window: 01 October 2019, 00:00 – 12 November 2019, 16:00.
2. Enhancing place-based partnerships in public engagement, a competitive funding scheme to support eligible research organisations UK-wide to pilot place-based public engagement partnerships and activities. Application deadline: 21 October 2019.

In relation to this, EPSRC has also launched a Public Engagement activity:

3.Engineering Engagement Champions (Pilot), an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) pilot with up to £1.5 million available through the Engineering theme to provide bespoke support to EPSRC researchers in our community to undertake public engagement activities in order to inspire, and interact with the public as well as attract them to Engineering and Physical Sciences. Application deadline: 07 November 2019, 16:00

Item 2: NERC Capital Workshop: Floods and Droughts Resilience
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is inviting individuals to submit expressions of interest to attend a workshop on 14th November 2019 to input into a case for a potential significant capital investment in a world-leading integrated network of long-term catchment observing facilities in the UK.
Building on previous scoping activities, the focus of the workshop will be to provide detail regarding proposed catchment sites and their characteristics, the required sensor and data transfer technologies, and to agree the common infrastructure needed for key baseline measurements to create an integrated system. The workshop will then be asked to identify the additional observations and measurements needed for the different catchment types identified. Following this workshop we may wish to appoint a working group to further advise NERC.
NERC are keen to hear from individuals that have a strong background in this area and have research, industry, or policy/end-user experience.
The aims of the workshop are to:
• Identify suitable potential catchment sites
• Define specific investments needed to capture the required observations/measurements that are common across all catchments, and for those that are required for specific catchment types
• Identify how cutting-edge technology and employing the wide range of sensor technologies now available to connect to and visualise the environment can advance our understanding of catchments
• Agree priorities for immediate development and suggest a plan for implementation.
The deadline for submitting your Expression Of Interest is 4pm Monday 28 October 2019. More information can be found here.

Item 3: EPSRC reopens applications for Strategic Advisory Bodies
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has reopened applications for academic membership of its Physical Sciences Strategic Advisory Team.
Applicants are sought from academia to advise the organisation on research and training strategy as members of the Strategic Advisory Teams (SAT). The recruitment process for SAT applications is open until 16.00hrs on Friday 25 October 2019. The academic vacancy is for: Physical Sciences: Physical Scientist with Expertise in using Large Data (Academic only)
More information, including details of the online application form can be found here. If you are interested in applying and would like some support with your application please contact a member of the Research Funding Development Team.

Item 4: REMINDER Research Grant submissions over the Christmas and New Year period 2019/20

Message from Grants and Contracts: CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR DEADLINES 2019/20

As there may be funder deadlines for research grant applications falling around the Christmas and New Year period, please can researchers submit their grant applications and associated paperwork via NUProjects to the Grants and Contracts Team, for any deadlines which fall between 16 December 2019 and 6 January 2020, by Friday 6 December 2019 . This will allow sufficient time for all approvals to be obtained.

The Grants and Contracts Office will be closed from Friday 20th December 2019 until Thursday 2nd January 2020.

Item 5: Latin American NUCoRE Workshop

The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is an interdisciplinary Newcastle University Research Centre which is exploring interest in becoming a NUCoRE.

Dr Patricia Oliart, on behalf of CLACS, invites colleagues from HASS, SAgE and FMS with research interests in the Latin American and Caribbean region to join a discovery workshop on Wednesday 20th November, 1-3 pm in Old Library Building room 2.20 (light lunch will be provided).

This will be a first meeting in the process of creating a NUCoRE that will enable development on years of collaboration and national and international visibility on multidisciplinary expertise in the region. Whilst much of the research to date has been around themes of Reproduction and Contestation of Power | Cultural production, language, heritage and identity | Mobility, livelihood, and everyday life | Resources, sustainability and health, new themes are welcome and expected to emerge from workshop discussions.

CLACS has cultivated a strong community of researchers and we would like our NUCoRE to be a catalysing space for the development of interdisciplinary research that contributes to facing the key social challenges in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

If you would like to attend the workshop please register here. If you are unable to attend but would like to be kept up to date with our progress please contact Dr Patricia Oliart (patricia.oliart@ncl.ac.uk).

Item 6: FINAL REMINDER EPSRC Physical Sciences Theme Early Career workshops – Newcastle 20th November

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is holding two one-day workshops for Early Career Researchers who work in the area of Physical Sciences. The workshops will be held in:

• Newcastle, 20 November 2019
• Bristol, 27 January 2020

The workshops will provide an update to EPSRC and Physical Sciences strategies and will communicate recent and upcoming policy changes. The workshops will be attended by a number of EPSRC staff, and also by experienced academics, current or previous Early Career Fellowship holders from across the Physical Sciences portfolio, UKRI Future Leadership Fellows and New Investigator Awardees, all of whom will provide guidance and mentoring throughout the workshop. The workshops will also include opportunities for networking with other Early Career colleagues.

EPSRC anticipates this event will be of greatest interest to Physical Sciences researchers who are eligible to hold an EPSRC grant and hold few or no grants as a Principal Investigator.

The aims of the workshops are to:
• Develop Early Career researcher’s understanding of EPSRC, including strategic priorities and funding mechanisms.
• Inform the Early Career researchers on the range of schemes available to them, and to clarify the differences between these.
• Develop relationships between EPSRC and Early Career researchers who will become future advocates for EPSRC.
Those wishing to attend the workshop should complete the Expression of Interest (EoI) form (here) by 24th October 2019. If you would like some support with your application please contact a member of the Research Funding Development Team.
Places are limited and the number of participants from a given organisation may have to be restricted in the event of multiple applications. Selection will primarily be based on the justification of attendance. In addition, EPSRC will also ensure a balanced representation of organisation, research area, and expertise and career stage.

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Evidence shows that research active trusts have improved outcomes for patients, as well as improved staff morale, recruitment and retention. To support improved patient outcomes there is a need for health and care professionals to become more involved in research and expand their knowledge. The Your Path in Research campaign aims to inspire health care professionals to get more involved in research. Read the article here

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The current RfSC call welcomes proposals for research which generates evidence to improve, expand and strengthen the way adult social care is delivered for users of care services, carers, and the public. Supporting information can be found here

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Latest funding calls and other opportunities

Funding deadline calendar

For an overview of NIHR calls and ongoing funding opportunities, please see the funding webpage.

https://bbsrc.ukri.org/funding/filter/transforming-the-uk-food-system/
Deadline: 26 November 2019
Amount: £25m total budget, Projects of up to £6m (@80% fEC)
Duration: Up to 5 years

The Food Systems SPF is an interdisciplinary programme of research that will help transform the UK food system by placing healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre.
It will address questions around what we should eat, produce and manufacture in the UK and what we should import.
In doing so it will consider the complex interactions between health, environment and behavioural factors, while taking into account wider needs for different groups in society.
This will enable a joined-up approach across healthy and accessible diets and sustainable food production and supply, delivering coherent evidence to enable concerted action from government, business and civil society.

Proposals are invited for interdisciplinary research consortia to develop evidence to enable food system transformation, linking healthy and accessible diets with sustainable food production and supply.
This will require a food systems approach and collaboration across multiple disciplines, for example: agri-food, environmental, public health, nutritional and social sciences (including for example expertise in soil science, crop and animal production, aquaculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services, systems engineers, data science, agricultural economics, food science, food manufacturing and processing, food markets, nutrition, biomedical and clinical science, epidemiology, economics, behavioural, social and political science).

As well as being scientifically excellent, the research must take account of and balance the needs of key food system actors, who have a central role to play in delivering transformation.
This includes government, business, and civil society organisations, and it is expected that these groups (and other relevant stakeholders) will be fully engaged in the co-design and the co-delivery of projects to ensure food system transformation can be achieved.

Proposals must address two major themes:
1) Defining a transformed UK food system that places healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre; and
2) Delivering food system transformation in the UK.
All projects should address aspects of BOTH themes.

This programme is looking for ideas and evidence for transformational change and how it can be delivered, rather than more research into the problems.

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.
Workshops will run from 10:30 – 16:30 on both days.
• Manchester (city centre) Monday 21 October
• London (central) Friday 25 October
Expression of interest for workshop participation closes: 13 October 12:00pm

Timeline
Launch of call 8 October 2019
Call Launch Workshop – Manchester 21 October 2019
Call Launch Workshop – London 25 October 2019
Closing date for outlines 26 November 2019
Assessment Panel January 2020
Full proposals invited February 2020
Full proposal deadline April 2020
Decision communicated to applicants September 2020
Grants must start before this date 4 January 2021

Please could those interested ensure they read the full call details and guidance documents provided via the link above

British Academy – GCRF Education and Learning in Crisis

Up to £360,000 over 21 months is available to address the following areas:
• Enhancing understanding of the role of education and learning in responding to and fashioning novel ways for coping and/or transforming children’s opportunities and outcomes in crisis settings, particularly those in the longer-term and including natural as well as man-made crises.
• Building the evidence base of how education and learning take place and are affected during and through crisis situations, including particular attention to the importance of local context and practice in this regard, and what implications this entails for learning, parenting, schooling and communities.
• Investigating how crises particularly affect the education and learning of children and their families of hidden populations, marginalised people including girls and women, and populations on the move.
Researchers from the Global South will be involved as equal partners.

Deadline: 4 December, 2019
More information is here.

BBSRC-GCRF Strategic Training Awards

The call aims to build training resources to up-skill and develop researchers, graduate students and DAC citizens in research priority areas.

Preferred areas of interest are identified in the call. Projects must be ODA compliant. Activity could include Research Experience Placements, Skills Schools, Online Resources. Full or partial PhD/MSc/MRes studentships and conference attendance is excluded.

Up to £100,000 is available for each project.

Deadline: 16 October, 2019.
More information here.

GCRF Digital Innovation for Development in Africa

This two stage GCRF call focuses on the impact and application of digital technologies for development in Africa. Stage one focuses on building Networks that bring together academics, industry, NGOs, policymakers and practitioners from Africa with UK partners.
These Networks are expected to build new relationships and stimulate novel research and innovation ideas and activities that will enable partners to apply for funding to deliver a co-developed and fully realised project in stage two. This call has three thematic areas of focus and applicants can apply to any strand.
This call will support seed funding for Networks working within the following thematic areas (more information about each is contained in the call text):
• Digital Rights
• Smart Communities
• Digital Health
Stage 1 funding up to £150,000 per project. Stage 2 funding £1-£3m per project.

Deadline: 12 November, 2019
More information here.

Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries

Research will build a significant new body of evidence on gender, growth, and labour markets to help shape gender and labour market policies in low-income countries. Capacity building through involvement of researchers from low-income countries is strongly encouraged.
The call covers 5 wide-ranging research themes:
• Theme 1: Facts about gender, jobs, and poverty
• Theme 2: Fertility and labour markets
• Theme 3: Barriers to gender parity
• Theme 4: The future of work: automation, urbanization and the environment
• Theme 5: Policies and welfare: costs and benefits of gender parity
Two types of research grants will be offered:
1. Large-scale research grants for experienced researchers based in institutions and organizations from all over the world to fund big research projects in LICs. In this round, it is expected to fund around 10 large projects with a total budget of about 3 million Euros.
2. Small research grants mainly targeting junior researchers (PhD students or researchers with less than five years of work/research experience) based in institutions from all over the world, as well as senior or junior researchers based in institutions and organizations in LICs (see the list of countries here). In this round, it is planned to to fund 3-6 small research projects with a maximum value of 30,000 Euros each.
To start the application process, applicants need to register for the Electronic Application Portal (EAP).
Proposals are due by November 11, 2019.
Deadline is November 11 2019.
More information is here.

NIHR Global Health Policy aand Systems Research (Global HPSR) Programme

Established partnerships with ODA-eligible countries are invited to bid for up to £4 million for projects up to 4 years in duration.

Priority areas are:
• Integrating Health Systems
• Quality of Care
• Health Workforce and Management Planning
• Improved Data Quality and Use

Deadline: 11 December 2019
Information briefing webinar: 23 October 2019, register by emailing nihrgh@soton.ac.uk
More information here.

https://bbsrc.ukri.org/funding/filter/transforming-the-uk-food-system/
Deadline: 26 November 2019
Amount: £25m total budget, Projects of up to £6m (@80% fEC)
Duration: Up to 5 years

The Food Systems SPF is an interdisciplinary programme of research that will help transform the UK food system by placing healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre.
It will address questions around what we should eat, produce and manufacture in the UK and what we should import.
In doing so it will consider the complex interactions between health, environment and behavioural factors, while taking into account wider needs for different groups in society.
This will enable a joined-up approach across healthy and accessible diets and sustainable food production and supply, delivering coherent evidence to enable concerted action from government, business and civil society.

Proposals are invited for interdisciplinary research consortia to develop evidence to enable food system transformation, linking healthy and accessible diets with sustainable food production and supply.
This will require a food systems approach and collaboration across multiple disciplines, for example: agri-food, environmental, public health, nutritional and social sciences (including for example expertise in soil science, crop and animal production, aquaculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services, systems engineers, data science, agricultural economics, food science, food manufacturing and processing, food markets, nutrition, biomedical and clinical science, epidemiology, economics, behavioural, social and political science).

As well as being scientifically excellent, the research must take account of and balance the needs of key food system actors, who have a central role to play in delivering transformation.
This includes government, business, and civil society organisations, and it is expected that these groups (and other relevant stakeholders) will be fully engaged in the co-design and the co-delivery of projects to ensure food system transformation can be achieved.

Proposals must address two major themes:
1) Defining a transformed UK food system that places healthy people and a healthy natural environment at its centre; and
2) Delivering food system transformation in the UK.
All projects should address aspects of BOTH themes.

This programme is looking for ideas and evidence for transformational change and how it can be delivered, rather than more research into the problems.

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.
Workshops will run from 10:30 – 16:30 on both days.
• Manchester (city centre) Monday 21 October
• London (central) Friday 25 October
Expression of interest for workshop participation closes: 13 October 12:00pm

Timeline
Launch of call 8 October 2019
Call Launch Workshop – Manchester 21 October 2019
Call Launch Workshop – London 25 October 2019
Closing date for outlines 26 November 2019
Assessment Panel January 2020
Full proposals invited February 2020
Full proposal deadline April 2020
Decision communicated to applicants September 2020
Grants must start before this date 4 January 2021

Please could those interested ensure they read the full call details and guidance documents provided via the link above

6 November 2019, 4pm (via email)

UK Nutrition Research Partnership (UK NRP) – Nutrition Hot Topics Workshops
https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/uk-nutrition-research-partnership-uk-nrp-nutrition-hot-topics-workshops/uk-nutrition-research-partnership-uk-nrp-nutrition-hot-topics-workshops/
• Awards will provide up to £10k of funding per workshop. The UK NRP expects to fund up to 8 workshops in total on different topics related to human nutrition
• The workshop must take place before 31 July 2020
• A workshop report should be submitted within 2 months of the event taking place

This call has been developed to accelerate progress by encouraging new thinking on important challenges in the nutrition field.
Focused workshops will enable specific nutrition “hot topics” needing urgent attention to be addressed in an agile and timely manner.
The aim is to support new linkages between different disciplines and to build research capacity by encouraging the formation of new multidisciplinary research teams able to address these challenges, with a view to build a strong pipeline of ideas and collaborative projects that could be competitive for response mode funding in the near future.

Researchers based within the UK are now invited to respond to a UK NRP Call for funds to organise hot topic workshops, each addressing an important multidisciplinary challenge in nutrition research.

Broad hot topic areas have been identified by the UK NRP.
Applicants should either propose a workshop clearly related to one of the identified topics, or may suggest a hot topic of their own.
All workshop topics proposed must be highly relevant to human nutrition.

• Co-leadership (designated as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator) of each workshop is required, one of which should be an early career researcher (ideally leads should be from two different disciplines)
• Applicants may be the PI or Co-PI on only one application for a Workshop Award

N.B a signed letter of support is required from a senior representative from the PI’s host institution

Aims of the call
The UK NRP Workshop Awards will broaden the research base and increase collaborations by bringing together expertise from within and outside the current nutrition field, and from diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds. We are particularly keen to attract the most exciting and transformative workshop ideas which either focus on a novel emerging aspect (of a topic area), or seek new approaches to a known nutrition challenge. Workshops with an innovative format and programme to ensure rich discussion and interaction are particularly welcome.

Among the potential topics identified by the UK NRP are:
• Chronobiology and nutrition
• Microbiome – context specific mechanistic/functional understanding closely linked to human nutrition and physiology
• Frailty (muscle) and nutrition – examples include: muscle as an endocrine organ, recovery and signalling; sarcopenia and mechanisms of cachexia; human phenotyping and nutritional status in older people (including multimorbidities)
• Appetite – examples include: better understanding of the gut-brain axis; mechanisms of anorexia and cachexia, overweight/obesity; translation of science with particular relevance to ageing populations
• Dietary behaviour – behavioural/nutrition science interfaces and how to change dietary behaviour in a sustainable way. May include food choice, portion control, and socioeconomic/cultural aspects.
• Micronutrients – context specific mechanistic/functional understanding closely linked to human nutrition and physiology. Improved understanding of interactions with other nutrients and influencing factors.
• Vulnerable populations and inequalities – to include nutritional drivers and key physiological/behavioural/social and environmental determinants
• Ethnicity and response to diet – biological (e.g. genetics/epigenetics) and behavioural/social/cultural aspects
• Interplay between nutrition and physical activity – at the mechanistic level, but could also be socioeconomic and cultural factors

Applicants are free to suggest an alternative hot topic but it must be related to nutrition and it will be judged on its novelty and importance to the field.

It should be noted that the UK NRP plans to sponsor a larger workshop on Dietary Intake Assessment and so proposals based on this topic should not be submitted to this call.

Please see full details of process and what can be requested at the web link above.

17 December 2019, 4pm
[31 October 2019, 4pm EoI to register for Workshop to be held on 22 November 2019]

MRC/AHRC/ESRC Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind: Engagement Awards
https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/mrc-ahrc-esrc-adolescence-mental-health-and-the-developing-mind/adolescence-mental-health-developing-mind-engagement-awards/
£1.6M is available to support a number of engagement awards, each of which will receive an award of up to £100k UKRI contribution and will have a duration of up to 12 months.
Awards will have a fixed start date of 1st April 2020 and applicants must demonstrate in their proposal that they have plans in place to ensure an efficient start up.

Individuals may be the Principle Investigator on only one application, however individuals can act as Co-I on any number of applications.
Applications may be single or multi institutional.

Engagement Awards are aimed at building and strengthening a cross-disciplinary community in the research area of Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind.
These are flexible awards focused on establishing new collaborations, exploring innovative new research directions and building relationships with key stakeholders.
This £1.6M call is intended to underpin the development of larger scale research projects and collaborations, as well as build capacity and networks that will add value to future investments to be made through this new cross-Council programme.

This call for Engagement Awards is the first investment to be made through this new cross-Council programme.
Engagement awards will support the formation of new multidisciplinary collaborations, pilot funding for novel multidisciplinary research and methods development, and enable knowledge exchange between researchers, stakeholders, practitioners, policy makers, young people and those with lived experience of mental health problems.

A facilitated workshop is being held in parallel with this call to engage the breadth of relevant research communities and stakeholders and support the development of networks (attendance at the workshop is encouraged but is not a prerequisite for funding under this call). Both activities are intended to underpin the development of larger scale research projects and collaborations in this important area, as well as build capacity and networks that will add value to future investments to be made through this cross-Council programme.

Please note, involvement in an awarded Engagement Award is not a pre-requisite for eligibility to apply for future funding under this Programme.

Remit and scope
Engagement Awards can be used by a multidisciplinary applicant team to fund pilot projects, strengthen existing collaborations and create new ones, build partnerships with key stakeholders and facilitate knowledge exchange. It is expected that this call will support a range of awards that are focused on key research challenges in Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind.
This may include:
• Exploration of the dynamic and complex interaction of factors that impact during adolescence, to understand the high degree of inter-individual heterogeneity and the consequences of genetic, environmental and social interactions for life.
• Understanding the conditions that mitigate risk as well as enable resilience, both during and preceding adolescence.
• Identification of vulnerable young people in school and other settings, including health services and the youth justice system.
• Exploration of novel cross-cutting methods, tools, measures and multimodal datasets, and the basis for an open-science data infrastructure.
• Data collection and the evidence base for mental health support in schools, including understanding and enhancing the education environments that promote learning, healthy behaviours (and reducing antisocial behaviour), positive mental health and wellbeing, executive function and social-emotional skills development.
• How the digital environment influences brain development and function, mental health and mental health problems, risk behaviours, bullying, loneliness and social isolation. How digital technologies can be harnessed to promote positive behaviours and mental wellbeing.

Funding will be provided to establish new, high-value collaborative activities/capabilities, including those that add value to high quality scientific investments that are already supported by the funders. It is not designed to fund stand-alone, hypothesis-driven research projects, or continuation/extension of existing grants, which may otherwise be eligible for standard research grant type funding from the partner Councils.
N.B. Funding to support studentships is not eligible.

For full details of eligible costs and how to apply, please see the web link above.