APPROACH Funding Call NOW OPEN – Ageing and Place
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the Healthy Ageing Challenge APPROACH funding call. Successful applicants will receive up to £100k (@ 80% fEC) for a duration of 12 months. Applications are welcome from researchers at all career stages. We particularly interested in applications where this is the first opportunity as Principal Investigator. Successful projects will join the Social Behaviour & Design Research Programme (Home – SBDRP | Stirling University (ageing-sbdrp.co.uk)) as part of the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge (Healthy ageing challenge – UKRI).
We are inviting research proposals on the following areas:
Pandemic Recovery Creating sustainable and resilient neighbourhoods and/or communities – age and place
We particularly encourage projects under this theme to focus on one or more of the following place-based issues:
- The retail sector in pandemic recovery (for example, how changes in the retail landscape have impacted on older people; how and what can older people contribute to retail environments; how do we design sustainable retail environments for healthy ageing?)
- Raising awareness, driving change and delivering impact in the sectors engaged in town centre placemaking (for example, retail, transport, planning, design) around healthy ageing
- Ageing in rural, seaside and remote areas (for example, what solutions can be adopted to enable people to live well in later life)
Healthy Ageing and Climate Change
We particularly encourage projects under this research area to focus on one or more of the following place-based issues related to climate change:
- Effects of climate change on environments of ageing and wellbeing of older people and of the places where they live (e.g., working across disciplines and sectors to look at the impact of a rise in sea levels on coastal areas populated by older people)
- Older people as agents of change in actions for the climate – such as contribution to, and behaviour towards climate change including mitigations (e.g., patterns of behaviour to reduce carbon emissions)
- Mitigating actions through design for ageing (e.g., how products and service design can mitigate the impact of climate related threats on older people and accommodate ambitions to net zero)
- Intergenerational attitudes to climate change (e.g., solidarity between generations, ambivalence and conflict)
Key dates for the application:
- Closing date: 5pm on June 13th 2022
- Panel date: July 5th 2022
- Decisions announced: mid-July 2022
- Latest start date: October 1st 2022
- Latest end date: 12 months after start date or 30th September 2023, whichever is soonest
See APPROACH FUNDING CALL – SBDRP (ageing-sbdrp.co.uk) for further details, and follow us on Twitter @Ageing_SBDRP for updates, or you can email us on SBDRPenquiries@stir.ac.uk