Application deadline: 25 November 2024 (17.00 GMT)
UCL’s Grand Challenge of Mental Health & Wellbeing (GC MHW) welcomes applications for “catalyst” funding of up to £10,000 per project to support cutting-edge research and innovation in that crosses disciplinary boundaries and focuses on bringing discovery to practice.
Projects should represent impactful catalytic work that can lead that enable interdisciplinary connections, trial new approaches, and preparation for large-scale research bids.
The call is specifically designed to support early and early mid-career staff. Applications should be led by an early career researcher (PhD student, post-doctoral researcher, or faculty member/fellowship holder within eight years of PhD graduation or six years of their first academic appointment). Later career academics can be involved as co-applicants.
Applications should be aligned with the key focus of GC MHW – improving mental health and wellbeing via prevention and early intervention. We define intervention as any systematic effort to bring about an improvement in the mental health and/or wellbeing of individuals or groups of individuals.
Both basic and applied academic work that is critical for helping identify potential mechanisms for or testing preventative or early interventions will be considered and we strongly encourage applications from across different UCL faculties.
UCL Grand Challenges uses 'interdisciplinarity’ to mean collaboration between experts in different fields that cuts across traditional subject areas. We see interdisciplinary research as the effort to solve problems in an innovative way through the integration of skills and/or approaches from different disciplines.