UKRI Pre-announcement: Behavioural Science for Security and Defence Network Plus

Apply for funding to develop a Network Plus to enable new understanding of how individual and population level risks evolve and how security threats can be identified and mitigated.

This network will be funded by UKRI.  Your Network must be social science-led and at least 50% within ESRC’s remit.

The full economic cost of your network can be up to £3,560,000. UKRI will fund 80% of the full economic cost. UKRI have a total fund of £3.56 million for this call.

Your Network is expected to:

• generate insights into data driven methods of understanding and predicting security risks, threats and vulnerabilities
• build new interdisciplinary capability in this area, linking existing and establishing new partnerships, bringing together new approaches and developing conceptual, methodological, theoretical and leadership skills
• enable a coherent and connected landscape across disciplines, stakeholders and civil, homeland and national security sectors, by bridging existing structures, and by identifying needs through relationship building, co-creation, and sustained engagement
• inform policy, practice and understanding through engaging with stakeholder needs and enabling insights to feed into development processes for security policy, practice and new research

Your network should start on 1 April 2024 and run for 36 months.

This is a pre-announcement and the information may change.