UKRI and ESRC Centres: Open and Thematic Calls
UKRI and ESRC have released a number of pre-announcements in relation to funding to establish world leading centres of excellence in particular areas, including the Centre in Climate Change and Health. While applications for these centres will not be counted in the demand management measures in place for the ESRC’s open centres opportunity we need to ensure that there are no similar proposals being submitted to the schemes (open opportunity or one of the steered centres opportunities).
For all of these calls further details will be made available when the full opportunity is posted in February 2023. UKRI and ESRC are expecting to fund a single centre within each of the steered centre opportunities (two-stage process put in place). For the ESRC’s Open Centre opportunity we are able to submitted 2 outline applications as lead institution (see attached documentation for a reminder on the process for the ESRC Open Centres call).
If you are interested in any of the steered centres opportunities, detailed below, or considering leading an application please could you inform Lorraine Smith (Lorraine.Smith@ncl.ac.uk), Senior Research Funding Development Manager, as soon as possible.
Centre in Community Participation and Connectedness
Centre between £5 million and £9.7 million for up to 5 years.
ESRC are looking to fund a centre that is focused on supporting and strengthening connectedness and participation in communities across the UK. The centre will bring together the right people, disciplines, institutions and infrastructure to provide the evidence needed for this challenge within a 5 year timeframe.
This centre will bring together research disciplines that span UKRI’s remit to increase understanding and develop and test approached that strengthen social connectedness; community and civic participation; pride in place; interpersonal and institutional trust; and community resilience.
Centre in Sustainable and Equitable Low-Carbon Living
Centre between £5 million and £9.7 million for up to 5 years.
ESRC are looking for a centre to support the UK’s transition to sustainable and equitable low-carbon living. The centre will bring together the right people, disciplines, institutions and infrastructure to provide the evidence needed for this challenge within a 5-year timeframe. The aim of the centre is to enable UK decision makers to identify the most cost-effective and socially feasible options for supporting the public, government, and businesses in transitioning to low-carbon living and adapting to wider environmental change and biodiversity challenges.
Centre in Climate Change and Health
Centre between £5 million and £9.7 million for up to 5 years.
The principal investigator for this opportunity can be from any discipline.
UKRI are looking for a centre that will address the challenges that climate change poses to population health, in a way that enhances both environmental and health outcomes. The centre will bring together the right people, disciplines, institutions and infrastructure to provide evidence for this challenge within a 5-year timeframe. UKRI want to fund a centre that will accelerate understanding of the links between climate change and human health and form an evidence base for policy makers. It is important that the centre considers co-benefits, for example, the potential for climate change mitigation and adaptions strategies to have positive impacts on both health and the environment. Proposals will require bringing a broad set of disciplines and sectors together, and employing systems thinking.