Funding to deliver an interdisciplinary project that will identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK.
The successful project will work across four areas:
- Developing a deeper contextual understanding of place-based economic inactivity in the UK.
- Actively bridging the research-to-practice gap.
- Exploring options for widening access to administrative data for inactivity research.
- Exploring and setting out what a potential future research agenda in this space could look like.
A full list of requirements relating to approaches, partnerships, stakeholder engagement, interdisciplinarity and team composition can be found in the guidance document below and on the opportunity webpage.
ELIGIBILITY
Applications may be submitted jointly by more than one applicant.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to include project co-leads from business, the third sector or government bodies based in the UK.
VALUE AND DURATION
The total FEC of your project can be up to £1.2 million (applicants are encouraged to bid for the maximum funding available).
The duration of this award is 24 months.
KEY DATES
Call opens: 3 February 2025
Deadline: 6 May 2025
Projects must start by 12 January 2026