EPSRC: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Digital health hub pilot scheme

21/04/2022

28/06/2022

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites expressions of interest for its digital health hub pilot scheme. This supports the creation of a digital health hub which should promote knowledge and skills sharing across healthcare, academia and business, and drive innovation in digital health. The total budget is £8 million. Projects may last for up to three years. The full economic cost may be up to £4m. ESPRC will fund up to 80 per cent of the full economic cost.

The hub should focus on: •increasing skills and capacity in the development of digital health and care solutions across academic disciplines, healthcare and industry; •allowing co-creation of solutions with users across healthcare, such as patients, carers and clinicians •enabling the accelerated translation of digital technologies into the healthcare space and rapid commercialisation of emerging digital technologies; •building new partnerships between industry, healthcare, social care, users of digital technologies and academia; •increasing the sharing of knowledge between industry, healthcare and academia; •providing a mechanism for fostering leadership in digital health and care. The project must be a collaboration between academia, the healthcare sector and business.

Research grants are open to UK HEIs, research council institutes, UKRI-approved independent research organisations, eligible public sector research establishments and NHS bodies with research capacity. The PI must be a UK resident who is either: employed at the submitting research organisation at lecturer level or equivalent; on a fixed-term contract that extends beyond the duration of the proposed project, and the host research organisation is prepared to give them all the support normal for a permanent employee; an EPSRC, Royal Society or Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages; on a fellowship under other schemes and have contacted EPSRC to check eligibility, which is considered on a case-by-case basis. Holders of postdoctoral level fellowships are not eligible to apply.