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Wellcome is launching a Mental Health Award, to advance understanding of how interventions for anxiety, depression, and psychosis work. In this free webinar, you’ll get a chance to hear about Wellcome’s new mental health strategy and this new funding call. See the funder's website for details on the scheme.
By taking a back (or reverse) translation approach, Wellcome will fund projects that start with one (or more) effective active ingredient(s) and work backwards from the evidence to understand why/how the chosen ingredient(s) works. The insights gained through this work will (either directly or in time) inform the development of new and improved early interventions.
- By ‘active ingredients’, Wellcome mean those aspects of an intervention that drive resolution or reduction of symptoms, are conceptually well defined, and link to specific hypothesised mechanisms of action.
Who can apply to this Mental Health Award?
- This call is for teams of researchers working across any discipline of relevance to mental health science.
- This is a global call, meaning that applicants from anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China) can apply.
- Applicants from a range of organisations can apply, including from higher education institutions, research institutes, non-academic healthcare organisations, not-for-profit organisations, and companies.
If you are based at UoB, please let Zoe Holland (zoe.holland@bristol.ac.uk) know if you intend to apply, and involve the finance team early on in your application.
Applicants will need to ensure that their Head of School is supportive of them pursuing an application, noting that there is a large and unfunded time commitment for the lead applicant (20%) and any co-applicants (10%), and that Wellcome is a charity and does not fund overheads. In addition, if you will be requesting specialised equipment that costs £100,000 or more, Wellcome expect a contribution of at least 25% from the host organisation or another source.