Deadline: 1-Dec-21
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeking applications for advancing adolescent mental health and wellbeing research to help improve research in the field of ‘adolescence, mental health and the developing mind’ through:
- methodological innovation
- capability building.
Aims
The overarching aim of this initiative is to:
- deliver ambitious interdisciplinary research advances
- generate evidence that underpins approaches for improving adolescent wellbeing, educational attainment, sense of identity and social functioning as
- be able to prevent, address or reduce mental health problems.
Focus Areas
Your project must focus on research with adolescents and young people. You could:
- improve existing research methods, concepts, tools or measures
- identify innovative new approaches.
Funding Information
- £8 million is available to support proposals under this opportunity. Applications may request funding for 12 to 36 months and between £100,000 and £1,000,000 UKRI contribution per proposal.
- Proposals to this opportunity may vary in scale, ambition and stage of development and they encourage a diverse range of applications across the funding envelope. They therefore invite:
- developed proposals
- pilot studies
- exploratory work
- proof-of-concept studies.
What they are looking for?
MRC, AHRC and ESRC invite proposals for ‘Building Capability through Methodological Innovation: Advancing the Field of Adolescent Mental Health Research’. This opportunity will support research to strengthen the methodological and conceptual foundations that underpin research into:
- adolescence
- mental health
- the developing mind.
Eligibility Criteria
- The ‘Building Capability through Methodological Innovation: Advancing the Field of Adolescent Mental Health Research’ funding opportunity is open to applicants from eligible UK-based organisations in accordance with standard UKRI eligibility rules.
- Medical Research Council (MRC) is administering this opportunity on behalf of MRC, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Therefore, proposals do not need to fall within the remit of MRC. They encourage applications from eligible researchers at all stages of career and particularly welcome applications from arts and humanities researchers.
- The opportunity is open to public sector research establishments (PSREs).
- If PSREs wishing to apply have not previously applied for UKRI funding and are not currently designated independent research organisation status, they will be required to complete an eligibility form. This is to ensure they have the required research capacity, systems and controls in place to manage the research and grant funding.
- Individuals may be the principal investigator on only one application. However, individuals can act as co-investigator on any number of applications.
- Applications from early and mid-career researchers are encouraged.
- Applications may be single or multi-institutional.
- International co-investigators are eligible for inclusion where they provide expertise that is not available in the UK.
- It is possible to include non-academic partners as co-investigators, such as:
- policymakers
- local and national government
- third sector and voluntary organisations
- practitioners
- lived experience researchers.
- Users from industry cannot be co-investigators.
For more information, visit https://beta.ukri.org/opportunity/advancing-adolescent-mental-health-and-wellbeing-research/