Deadline: 5-May-22
Wellcome is accepting nominations for Mental Health Award: improving cognitive and functional outcomes in people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis.
This call will provide funding to individuals or teams from not-for-profit or commercial organisations for two types of applications. Firstly, to develop and evaluate interventions to improve cognitive and functional outcomes for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis. Secondly, to test new or existing markers of cognitive functioning for prediction of risk or treatment stratification.
This call aims to improve cognitive and functional outcomes for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis, an area of unmet patient need.
Funding Information
- Level of funding: Up to £3 million for applications developing interventions. Up to £1 million for studies testing markers of cognitive functioning.
- Duration of funding: Up to 5 years for intervention development and evaluation. Up to 3 years for studies testing markers of cognitive functioning.
What do the award include?
This award includes:
- staff
- continuing professional development and training
- materials and consumables
- animals
- equipment
- access charges
- overheads
- travel and subsistence
- overseas allowances
- fieldwork expenses
- inflation allowance
- open access charges
- clinical research costs
- public engagement and patient involvement costs
- contract research organisations
- lived experience involvement
- other costs
Where your host organisation is based: Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)
What they are looking for?
In this one-off call, they are looking to:
- support the development and evaluation of interventions to improve cognitive and functional outcomes in people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis, and
- increase their understanding of the potential for markers of cognitive functioning to enable risk or treatment stratification for people experiencing, or at risk of, psychosis.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply to this call if you are an individual or team:
- from a relevant discipline, broadly defined (for example, biomedical, digital, social sciences or humanities)
- with co-applicants based in the country or countries where the research will take place
- Lead applicant
- You must:
- have the experience needed to drive and lead a complex collaborative research programme to address mental health research questions
- have experience of people and research management and training, as appropriate for your career stage
- have a permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contract for the duration of the award, or guarantee of a salaried post, which is not conditional on receiving this award
- be able to contribute at least 20% of your research time to this project
- be based at an eligible host organisation that can sign up to their grant conditions. In the case of lead applicants based at commercial companies, they may offer funding via a convertible loan, or a revenue sharing agreement instead of a grant, depending on circumstances
- You must:
- Co-applicants
- must be essential for the delivery of the proposed research and make a significant contribution, for example designing the research, writing the application, or managing the programme
- must be able to contribute at least 10% of their research time to this project
- can be at any career stage
- do not need to have a permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contract at their host institution, however, they must have a guarantee of space from their host institution for the duration of their commitment to the award
- must be based at an eligible organisation that can sign up to their grant conditions
- can be based in the same or in different organisations, and come from any discipline, but the added value of the team approach must be clear
What they don’t offer?
- Salary recovery costs for staff funded full-time by the employing organisation.
- Indirect costs.
- Working capital costs of commercial organisations.
- Fees for academic courses such as Master’s degrees or PhDs, and other tuition fees.
- Costs for large equipment.
- Costs for capital build or refurbishment.
- They don’t fund overheads unless they’re included on this page (for example research management and support costs).
For more information, visit https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/improving-cognitive-and-functional-outcomes-psychosis