UKRI: Centre in climate change and health

02/02/2023

17/05/2023

Apply for funding to establish a centre in climate change and health. Our centres are world-leading centres of excellence that carry out interdisciplinary, cutting-edge and impactful research. This centre will be jointly supported by the funders involved, and ESRC will lead the commissioning process on their behalf. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding. The full economic cost of your project can be between £5 million and £9.7 million for up to 5 years. UKRI will fund 80% of the full economic cost.

We are looking for a centre that will address the challenges that climate change poses to population health, in a way that enhances both environmental and health outcomes. The centre will bring together the right people, disciplines, institutions and infrastructure to provide evidence for this challenge within a 5-year timeframe. Proposals will require bringing a broad set of disciplines and sectors together, and employing systems thinking. As the impacts of climate change are not experienced equally across society, we expect the funded centre to include inequality as a cross cutting theme. Co-creation with affected communities will be strongly encouraged. Disruptions to Earth’s natural systems, caused by human activity, are already having a detrimental impact on our health. We know that climate change has wide-ranging impacts on the environment, including: biodiversity and habitat loss disruption to food production systems water scarcity and flooding extremes of temperature

The principal investigator for this funding opportunity can be from any discipline but must be based at an organisation eligible for UKRI funding for the duration of the grant. Eligible organisations are: UK higher education institutions research council institutes UKRI-approved independent research organisations public sector research establishments NHS bodies with research capacity