Deadline: 20-Sep-22
Apply for funding for a research team to co-design innovative food system research trials, working closely with government partners.
The aim of this research is to encourage and enable the take up of healthier and more sustainable diets.
Long-Term Goals
- The long-term goals for the research team are to:
- provide leadership on new approaches to supporting healthy and sustainable diets that catalyses and accelerates collaboration between:
- researchers
- government
- the food industry
- other key stakeholders interested in reducing health inequalities
- lead the delivery of the food system trials programme by successfully applying for delivery phase funding and build the evidence base on effective approaches to supporting healthier and more sustainable diets. Trial results should inform strategies to:
- help meet the UK’s 2050 net zero target and broader environmental and sustainability goals
- support policy and spending decisions on public health and reducing health inequalities in the UK. This includes rapidly and effectively disseminating findings that help decision makers to understand:
- the cost effectiveness of different interventions
- the relative effectiveness of interventions at reducing socioeconomic and geographical inequalities in diets
- the feasibility of scaling different interventions as part of a national rollout.
- provide leadership on new approaches to supporting healthy and sustainable diets that catalyses and accelerates collaboration between:
Objectives
- They expect the research team to:
- lead the co-design of an innovative programme of trials within the English food system that will:
- transform the evidence base on approaches to reducing geographical and socioeconomic dietary inequalities and encourage a shift towards healthier and environmentally more sustainable diets
- inform policy and practice in the UK food system
- result in publications and other knowledge exchange activities that contribute to the work of the wider national and international research community
- champion interdisciplinary research to provide actionable solutions by bringing together a range of expertise in areas that could include:
- behavioural science
- economics
- environmental science
- evaluation science
- health (including public health)
- population studies
- psychology
- apply to lead the delivery phase of the programme.
- lead the co-design of an innovative programme of trials within the English food system that will:
Funding Information
- Total fund: £450,000
- Maximum award: £450,000
Eligibility Criteria
- They are seeking a research team based at institutions eligible for ESRC funding with expertise in:
- trial design
- health
- the food system.
- Eligible UK research organisations include:
- UK higher education institutions
- research council institutes
- NHS bodies
- eligible public sector research establishments
- UKRI-approved independent research organisations.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/food-system-trials-to-encourage-healthy-sustainable-diets/