Funding opportunity: Mental Health Award



Funding opportunity: Mental Health Award

Deadline: 7 June 2023

Wellcome Trust is accepting nominations for Mental Health Award to support the validation of biological, psychological, social or digital markers to enable stratification in anxiety and/or depression as early as possible.

Wellcome aims to drive a transformative change in the ability to intervene as early as possible in the course of anxiety and depression, broadly defined, in ways prioritised by the people who experience them.

This work involves advancing scientific understanding of how brain, body and environment interact in the course and resolution of these conditions; finding new and improved ways to predict, identify, and stratify groups of people so that they can provide more timely and personalised interventions; and finding new and improved ways of intervening.

Funding Information

Duration of funding: Up to 5 years
What does the award include? This award includes:
– staff
– continuing professional development and training
– materials and consumables
– animals
– equipment
– access charges
– overheads
– travel and subsistence
– overseas allowances
– fieldwork expenses
– inflation allowance
– open access charges
– clinical research costs
– public engagement and patient involvement costs
– contract research organisations
– other costs.

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant must:
– Have the experience, or the necessary support structures in place, needed to drive and lead a research programme to address your proposed research questions in anxiety and/or depression.
– Have experience of people and research management and training, as appropriate for your career stage.
– Have experience of or demonstrate commitment to effectively leading a team that embeds lived experience as relevant to the project and approach.
– Be able to contribute at least 20% of your research time to this project.
– Have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract for the duration of the award, or guarantee of a salaried post, which is not conditional on receiving this award.
– Be based at an eligible host organisation that can sign up to the grant conditions.
– Only request salary recovery if this is a condition of your employment contract.

More information you can find on Wellcome website.