Improving health with environmental data

Posted by: Julie Simpson - Posted on:

NERC, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (CSO) are investing up to £600,000 in projects to identify and fill knowledge gaps around the potential of environmental data to improve health outcomes in the UK. This call will focus specifically on using environmental data on air pollution and/or environmental hazards alongside health and biomedical data.

A brokerage event in Edinburgh to identify projects for this call is planned for 10 May 2016. Applications to attend the brokerage event must be received by 18th April.

  • Applicants must attend the brokerage event in May in Edinburgh in order to be eligible to submit proposals.
  • It is expected that most, if not all, applications will be for exploratory or feasibility studies.
  • Projects are expected to be short-term (up to 12 months).
  • The funders expect to make approximately 10 awards of approximately £60,000 each (80% FEC).
  • Up to £100,000 of the funding is reserved for projects led by principal investigators (PIs) based at Scottish Higher Education Institutes.

Brokerage event attendees will be invited to submit full proposals which must be submitted via Je-S by 12 July 2016.

For further details please see the NERC website