Funding to research dietary health inequalities in the UK food system, taking a food systems approach to design and deliver place-based, solution focused interventions.
The aim of this opportunity is to foster a better understanding of the causes of dietary health inequalities in the UK food system and deliver solutions to improve equity and health.
The following two themes must be addressed through a place-based approach:
- Understanding the causes of dietary health inequalities in the UK food system.
- Deployable interventions to achieve equitable and healthy consumption and a socially just UK food system.
Projects funded under this opportunity must:
- Take a food systems approach and design and deliver place-based, solution focused interventions to reduce dietary health inequalities in the UK food system.
- Provide clear pathways to impact at local and/or regional levels, working with key decision-makers, and provide an indication of how findings and best practice will be shared across different areas.
- Provide a clear indication of the outcomes you expect to see, and how you will evaluate and measure the success of the intervention.
- Be interdisciplinary with expertise from at least two disciplines. Examples of possible disciplines include, but are not limited to, the biological sciences, engineering and physical sciences, environmental sciences, economic and social sciences and the arts and humanities.
- Address both themes (see above).
- Collaborate with at least one stakeholder organisation (government, business or the third sector).
Projects can be at regional or local level and focused on any deprived community being impacted by health inequalities (such as, urban, rural, or demographic groups). The intervention can be in any part of the food system but must be developed in the context of other parts of the system to avoid unintended consequences. For example, all interventions must be environmentally sustainable.
Value and duration
Funding is available for up to three years.
Projects must start by 1 April 2025.
The FEC of your project can be up to £1,875,000.
Deadline: 19 September 2024
Further details including research objectives and expected outputs can be found below and on the UKRI funding finder.