Deadline: 1-Mar-22
Applications for Digital Society Network Plus: exploring people’s relationships with digital technologies are now open.
Your network is expected to:
- generate insights into the relationships between people and technologies by carrying out and funding research
- build interdisciplinary capability
- bring people together across disciplines to connect researchers exploring people’s relationship with technology.
Themes
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has identified two optional themes that the Network Plus could look to support via the high-level research agenda, flexible fund, and collaborative activities:
- Power and behaviour
- Harnessing technology
Funding Information
The full economic cost of your project can be up to £4 million. They will fund 80% of the full economic cost. Your project can last up to five years.
Desired outcomes
By the end of the funding period, the investment should have enabled a step-change in how social scientists investigate the interactions between people and digital technologies – increasing trans, multi and inter disciplinary capacity in the field. It should:
- generate new insights into the relationships between people and technologies, through supporting research that maps interconnections between social, economic and cultural lives. Having identified and explored areas where changes are happening, both now and in the future, your network should explore changes in society, at macro and micro levels, drawing lessons from key disciplines, investments, and networks
- build new interdisciplinary capability in this emerging research area, linking existing (and establishing new) transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary partnerships. In doing so, bringing together technical and social science approaches and developing conceptual, methodological, theoretical and leadership skills
- enable a coherent and connected landscape for digital research across disciplines, by bridging existing structures, identifying needs through sustained engagement and brokering relationships
- inform policy, practice and public understanding, through understanding stakeholder needs and enabling insights to feed into development processes for devices, services and public policy as well as co-producing research.
What they are looking for?
A Network Plus is a strategic investment that aims to bring together new research communities and identifies, prioritises and develops emerging research challenges. It provides leadership across disciplines and sectors. To build sustained engagement and collaboration on an emerging research area, it also delivers different activities, such as:
- workshops
- events
- communications
- seed funding calls.
Eligibility Criteria
- The principal investigator must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding. That organisation will be responsible for submitting the grant application to UKRI.
- Proposals can also include:
- eligible international co-investigators
- co-investigators from UK business, policy, or civil society
- eligible public sector research establishments (PSREs).
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/digital-society-network-plus-exploring-peoples-relationships-with-digital-technologies/