EPSRC: Digital technologies for health and care

27/05/2021

21/07/2021

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites expressions of interest for their call for participants in a three-day sandpit focused on digital technologies for health and care. This enables researchers from a broad range of disciplines to attend a sandpit on digital technologies for health and care. The focus of this event is novel digital technologies for improved self-monitoring and health management. It is expected that up to £1.5 million of UKRI funding will be made available to fund research projects arising from this sandpit.

The broad aims of the sandpit are to generate research proposals on Biomedical Engineering; Health & Medical Informatics that can: •form new collaborations between researchers and innovators in diverse research areas between key researchers, innovators and users; •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 the issues around scale up and adoption experienced by current digital tools.

The principal investigator must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at the lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible organisation, which may be a higher education institution, a research institute funded by a research council or an independent research organisation. Researchers from a diverse range of domains are encouraged to apply to attend this sandpit and need not have worked on the problem before. Businesses are not eligible to apply for funding through this scheme.