Transforming Care and Health At Home and Enabling Independence – UK

Deadline: 21-Oct-21

The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeking applications for Transforming Care and Health At Home and Enabling Independence.

You must focus on at least one of:

• staying independent at home
• staying healthy at home
• making care easier through building design and technologies
• using and developing new tools and collecting data to help with decisions on housing and care.

Themes

They expect proposals to focus on one or more of the following themes.

Maintaining independence at home

You can focus on:

• adaptations of existing homes
• development, acceptability and user-friendly design of these technologies:
  • communication
  • self-care apps
  • entertainment
  • smart devices
• innovations in:
  • assistive technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • wearables
• evaluation of innovative models of housing and domiciliary or community care.

Maintaining health within the home

You can focus on:

• providing thermal comfort
• enabling:
  • adequate ventilation
  • noise protection
  • sufficient space.

Enabling care readiness

You can focus on:

• innovative design of new buildings
• integration of technologies (beyond interventions in individual homes)
• facilitation of community building through design
• architecture for healthier living
• models of housing and care
• promotion of community wellbeing.

Enabling informed decisions on housing and care choices

You could, for example, focus on the design of new tools and analysis or collection of data that helps:

• support better decision making for end users
• provide in-depth analysis, monitoring and visualisation of data
• support the delivery of health and social care services in the community.

Funding Information

The full economic cost of your project depends on the type of work you apply to do:

• creating multidisciplinary networks: less than £1.5 million
• research: at least £500,000
• early-stage research or disseminating outputs: up to £499,999.

Eligibility Criteria

• Those based in non-UK countries and businesses can be involved in the application as project partners, members of the management or advisory boards and so on. However, they are not eligible to be investigators.
• Standard EPSRC eligibility rules apply.
• Research grants are open to:
  • UK higher education institutions
  • research council institutes
  • UKRI-approved independent research organisations
  • eligible public sector research establishments
  • NHS bodies with research capacity.
• You can apply if you are resident in the UK and meet at least one of the bullets below:
  • are employed at the submitting research organisation at a level equivalent to lecturer or above
  • hold a fixed-term contract that extends beyond the duration of the proposed project, and the host research organisation is prepared to give you all the support normal for a permanent employee
  • hold an EPSRC, Royal Society or Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages
  • hold fellowships under other schemes.

For more information, visit https://beta.ukri.org/opportunity/transforming-care-and-health-at-home-and-enabling-independence/