Deadline: November 14th 2023 | Call For Applications For The Mental Health Award
| Title: | Call For Applications For The Mental Health Award |
| Organisation: | Wellcome |
| Fund/Benefit: | £4 million. |
| Deadline: | November 14th 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | All Countries |
The Mental Health Award is currently accepting applications to study the causal processes by which the brain, body, and environment interact over time in the onset, persistence, and recovery of anxiety- and trauma-related illnesses.
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In order to be able to intervene as early as possible in the course of anxiety, depression, and psychosis, Wellcome’s strategic goal for mental health is to drive a transformative shift that takes into account the priorities and requirements of those who encounter these conditions.
Defining Mental Health Conditions
This call’s main emphasis is on disorders associated with anxiety and trauma, which are thus characterised as:
- Panic disorder with widespread anxiety
- Phobias of all kinds, including social phobia
- An obsessional condition
- Trauma-related stress disorder
- Chronic stress disorder
- Strongly correlated with the aforementioned disorders are trans diagnostic symptoms (such as danger hyper reactivity, recurrent negative thought, etc.)
Research Objectives
- Studies that take into account different degrees of explanation
- It is likely that a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors will have a role in both the causes and treatments of mental health issues. Therefore, integrated approaches are essential to comprehending the underlying causes of mental health issues.
- As a result, they are eager to finance studies that look at issues from multiple vantage points (such as molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive, behavioural, social, environmental, or societal).
- This might entail using several experimental models, like organoid and rodent models, as well as human subjects, but it’s not necessary.
- Study in developing and middle-income nations
- They cannot move closer to their goal of creating a world where no one is held back by mental health issues without having a greater understanding of how these issues arise, persist, and are resolved in these nations.
- In order to better understand how various contexts may affect the trajectory of anxiety-related problems, they are hoping to finance research inside and/or across low- and middle-income nations.
Financial Details
- Projects with any length up to five years
- Requests for financing should specify the appropriate funding period for the project.
- Projects with a maximum budget of £4 million.
- For this call, there is no standard award amount. The amount of funds you require for your proposed research should be requested.
Examples of additional scope research proposal elements include:
- However, this cannot be the main emphasis of the study proposal. Instead, include secondary research objectives and activities that examine how anxiety-related problems precede or develop alongside depression and/or psychosis (both of which are of strategic interest to Wellcome).
- Investigate how the various causative components interact.
- Investigate many theories for a single causal component.
- Examine how anxiety-related issues manifest, endure, and disappear over the course of a person’s life.
- Focus on any age group of people, but argue that your findings will ultimately have an impact on early intervention.
- Focus on the transdiagnostic symptoms of mental health conditions that people with anxiety-related issues may encounter (such as constant concern or irritation).
- Research anxiety issues in the setting of other disorders (for instance, research the emergence of generalised anxiety disorder in the context of autism).
- Concentrate on underrepresented and/or understudied populations (such as communities of people of colour or children with intellectual disability).
- Conduct comparison studies (for instance, contrast the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder in high-income nations with low- and/or middle-income countries).
Eligibility
- If you are a group of researchers from any relevant discipline working for an eligible organisation located anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China), you may submit an application to this call.
- They encourage submissions from: diverse and interdisciplinary teams, with collaborations covering multiple fields of expertise (for instance, biological, psychological, and social); researchers at any stage of their careers, including those who are just starting out in the field of mental health science; and researchers at any stage of their career.
- Each application should have the team knowledge and organisational backing required to address the suggested research question(s). Each co-applicant’s (and collaborator, if relevant) contribution to the project should be explained. Teams may wish to think about include persons who have firsthand experience with mental health issues as lead applicants, coapplicants, and/or collaborators on the project team.
- The lead applicant must: Possess the expertise required to direct and oversee a large-scale, collaborative research initiative and/or have the appropriate infrastructure in place to make this possible.
- Possess managerial skills in both people and research, depending on their stage of employment.
- Possess or exhibit the ability to effectively lead a team that incorporates lived experience expertise, as applicable to the study endeavour.
- Each co-applicant must: Be crucial to the project’s success and contribute significantly, for instance, by directing a particular project component or developing the proposed study.
- Show the team’s dedication to properly integrating lived experience knowledge as it relates to the study endeavour.
- Possess a space guarantee from the administering body for the duration of their involvement in the project, but they are not required to have an ongoing, long-term, or rolling contract.
- Applications may also list collaborators. They differ from coapplicants in that they will assist in carrying out the project but not take the lead on any particular area of the research.
The group
- The team should have every specialised knowledge and technical ability required to conduct the planned study, including knowledge of individuals with lived experiences and/or the abilities required to collaborate and incorporate people with lived experiences in research projects.
- Within the team and among the represented organisations, the team will be expected to actively promote a diverse, inclusive, and encouraging research environment.
- The company could be:
- Institution of higher learning Research Centre Non-Academic Healthcare Organisation
- commercial organisation, non-profit organisation, or non-governmental organisation
Ineligible
- You are not eligible to submit an application for this call if your plans include transferring grant money onto the Chinese mainland.
- Regardless of your career status, you can only apply to a maximum of two applications for this funding call:
- On one application, you can be the lead applicant, and on another, you can be a coapplicant.
- You may submit two applications as a coapplicant.
- If both initiatives are funded, you must be able to show that you can devote enough time and resources to them.
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