Deadline: 21-Jul-21
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is seeking applications for the Digital Technologies for Health and Care Program to develop research ideas for novel digital technologies to monitor, diagnose and treat the population remotely.
The broad aims of the sandpit are to generate research proposals which can:
- form new collaborations between key researchers, innovators, and users in diverse research areas
- create new and innovative research ideas in digital health and care based on health, clinical and social care challenges
- allow researchers to pitch projects for seed funding to test ideas
- address the key research challenges that are identified
- cultivate a common language between disciplines
- consider co-design with end-users
- address issues around scale up and adoption experienced by current digital tools.
Successful projects from the sandpit should either have a new approach to:
monitor, diagnose and treat the population remotely to relieve pressure on the increasingly overstretched NHS and social care system
deliver efficient, effective, patient-centric care in the community.
UKRI encourages applicants to:
- consider technologies that are people centred and ensure health equality, particularly the impact of any resulting technologies on health inequalities
- address issues with uptake and adoption of digital technologies for health and care (at an individual and organisational level) including acceptability, usability and inclusive design enabling a diverse population to access them.
Funding Information
It is expected that up to £1.5 million of UKRI funding will be made available to fund research projects arising from this sandpit.
Eligibility Criteria
- This sandpit will include inputs from a variety of sources, bringing together:
- social scientists
- designers
- engineers
- physical scientists
- computer scientists
- healthcare professionals
- biological scientists
- innovators.
- They will address the research challenges associated with developing novel digital technologies to monitor, diagnose and treat the population remotely.
- Standard EPSRC eligibility rules apply. Research grants are open to:
- UK higher education institutions
- research council institutes
- UKRI-approved independent research organisations
- NHS bodies with research capacity
- public sector research establishments (PSREs).
- 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 lecturer level or equivalent
- 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://www.ukri.org/opportunity/digital-technologies-for-health-and-care/
