Deadline: 20-Jul-23
Apply for funding for breakthrough interdisciplinary ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines.
This pilot scheme will support ideas not routinely funded through existing UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) responsive mode schemes.
Awards will be potentially transformative for the participating disciplines or lead to the creation of new disciplines.
Scheme Objectives
- This funding is to support interdisciplinary research, including to:
- unlock new research, new approaches or new methods that would not emerge from established disciplinary thinking
- demonstrate reciprocal research benefits through the integration of distinct disciplinary perspectives and spheres of knowledge
- support breakthrough or disruptive ideas and collaborations
- incentivise new and unexpected types of interdisciplinary research not routinely funded through existing UKRI responsive mode schemes
- encourage speculative, early stage and high potential interdisciplinary research proposals, embracing new concepts, techniques, or technologies
Funding Information
- Total fund: £32,500,000
- Award range: £200,000 – £1,200,000
- Your project can last up to two years. The earliest start date for your project can be 1 July 2024. A period of up to six months from the date of the award letter to the commencement of grant activity is permitted.
They are seeking:
- high quality, and creative ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span research council remits
- new, unexpected and novel projects that have the potential to lead to breakthrough ideas and collaborations
- research that can only be addressed through interdisciplinary collaboration
- projects combining disciplines to create new approaches to a research question, new methodologies or new ways of working
- reciprocity across the disciplines, with the disciplines involved being changed or transformed by working together
- projects that catalyse new interdisciplinary research through co-creation and design
- ideas with no clear ‘lead’ UKRI research council for responsive mode funding including applications that significantly span two or more research council remits.
Eligibility Criteria
- Research grants are open to organisations normally eligible for funding from the UKRI Research Councils, including:
- UK higher education institutions
- research council institutes
- UKRI approved independent research organisations
- public sector research establishments
- Principal investigator and co-investigator eligibility
- The principal investigator is the individual responsible for the intellectual leadership of the project and its overall management. If intellectual leadership is shared, the principal investigator is the individual who will be the main contact for UKRI.
- The co-investigator assists the principal investigator in the management and leadership of the project and may deputise or take over the leadership of the project if required. There may be a number of co-investigators supporting the principal investigator.
- You must meet all the following essential requirements:
- usually have at least a postgraduate degree, although they expect most applicants to have a PhD or equivalent
- be a researcher based in the UK and employed by an eligible research organisation. The exceptions to this are if:
- your project will involve long periods in another country
- you are located at an eligible international research organisation (for example, CERN or a Medical Research Council Overseas Unit)
- you will be moving to the UK to take up an already agreed contract at an eligible organisation (the contract must not be dependent on the outcome of the application) and will remain resident in the UK for the duration of the proposed project.
- a contract of employment at lecturer level or equivalent that either:
- extends to beyond the duration of the proposed grant (or, if not employed by the submitting organisation, a formal non-salaried arrangement that extends to beyond the duration of the proposed grant),
- or an assurance from the submitting organisation that, if the proposal is successful, a pre-existing contract of employment (or pre-existing formal commitment to provide support if not employed at the organisation) at lecturer level or equivalent will be extended beyond the end date of the grant.
- Researcher co-investigators are also permitted to apply. For the outline stage, researcher co-investigators should apply in Je-S as co-investigators.
For more information, visit UKRI.
