Deadline: 18 January 2018
The UKPRP is seeking applications from researchers for its Consortium and Network Awards to generate new insights into actionable, sustainable and cost-effective ways of preventing NCDs that will improve population health and reduce health inequalities in the UK.
The UKPRP is a new model of public health funding in the UK that seeks to:
- build and support interdisciplinary research teams to develop, implement and evaluate generalisable and scalable preventive policies, practices, designs and interventions which will enable change within complex adaptive systems to prevent NCDs.
- deliver solutions for large-scale and cost-effective improvements in health and the prevention of NCDs that meet the needs of providers and policy makers and are responsive to the challenging timescales of policy making. This will involve co-production of research with the public, policy makers, professionals and those likely to implement the intervention.
Types of Awards
- Consortium Awards provide substantial, long-term investment (five years) to support novel combinations of partners, including, where appropriate, industry (i.e. commercial/business partners), representing a range of academic disciplines and undertaking interdisciplinary research addressing a specific challenge in the primary prevention of NCDs. These groups should develop research strategies with users, for example policy makers, practitioners, health providers, the public etc. who may be part of the consortium, for the generation and implementation of new knowledge.
- Network Awards will build a community of researchers and users around a broad NCD primary prevention research challenge and support interdisciplinary networking activity. Networks will address research challenges in NCD prevention by developing new relationships across diverse disciplines and organisations where time is needed to do this successfully. Each network award will fund the operating costs of the network, for up to four years, and provide limited funding to pump prime new research collaborations. The UKPRP networks will develop future capacity in the UK to address NCD prevention challenges.
Funding Information & Eligibility Criteria
- Consortium Awards:
- £4-7m for five years for each consortium.
- Provides funding for research, e.g. research staff, consumables, costs of running the consortium including project management.
- Provides funding to support the transfer of research findings to policy and practice (e.g. through the appointment of a Knowledge Broker) and secure appropriate user participation.
- Research Directors (i.e. the leader of a consortium) will have the flexibility to manage resources to pursue new avenues of research or address emerging challenges.
- UKPRP consortia will not fund training (e.g. PhD students) but early career researchers are encouraged to engage with consortia, which we anticipate will offer excellent career development opportunities.
- Network Awards:
- £100k per annum for up to four years, primarily for funding meetings/workshops, the Principal Investigator’s time and a Network Administrator’s salary. Administrative costs associated with the activity of each network should be included.
- Provides some limited support for pump priming activities to cement collaborations and provide proof of concept.
- Additional funding to be sought from other grants, including the UKPRP’s consortium award.
- PhD students and research assistants are encouraged to participate in network activities but are not funded by the grant.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: United Kingdom
For more information, please visit UKPRP Call for Proposals.