NERC: Making environmental science equal, diverse and inclusive

19/08/2021

11/10/2021

The Natural Environment Research Council invites applications for its making environmental science equal, diverse and inclusive call. This supports projects that aim to explore and improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within environmental science. The total budget is £600,000. Funding is worth between £50,000 and £100,000 per project for up to six months.

Projects should focus on diversity throughout the lifecycle of research and innovation, and address the following objectives: •tackle the specific EDI challenges facing an academic team or department or a discipline in a wider sense; •test, verify and further define effective approaches to improve EDI within the team’s specified remit; •bring together academics to raise awareness of the opportunities for increasing diversity within the environmental sciences; •provide new evidence for the improvement of EDI within disciplines in the form of written case studies and for award holders to participate at a NERC organised knowledge exchange virtual event.

PIs must be employed at an eligible UK research institution such as UK an approved HEIs, research council institutes, independent research organisations or public sector research establishments. Principal investigators and co-investigators may only be involved in one proposal. Postdoctoral research assistants cannot act as the lead proposer, but can be named as a recognised researcher if they have helped develop the proposal.