Climate Impact Grant of £2.5 Million in the United Kingdom

Wellcome organization offers a grant opportunity in the field of Climate Impacts with the opportunity to receive up to £2.5 million in the UK. The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change visible across a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes in order to drive urgent climate policy and practice change at scale. This scheme will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects. It will fund transdisciplinary teams that may include researchers, policymakers, practitioners, community stakeholders, communications, and public engagement experts with the capacity to use evidence to drive climate action. You can find more information about the grant here.

Level of funding:

• Up to £2.5 million which in exceptional cases may be above this. 

Duration of funding:

• Up to 3 years.

For more information about the benefits of the grant click here.

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• You can apply for this award if you are a team leader who wants to advance transdisciplinary research on the impacts of climate change on health.
• You will be expected to:   
• Have prior experience in research engaging with policy/practitioners/implementation partners.
• Have knowledge brokering competencies such as the ability to act as a bridge between research teams and impacted communities.
• Actively promote a diverse, inclusive, and supportive environment within your team and across your organization. 
• Your research team can include researchers from any discipline (natural, physical, and social sciences as well as technology) but must be transdisciplinary (see the definition of transdisciplinary from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development here), and include expertise in public engagement and communications.  
• During your award, you should:
• Create a transdisciplinary team involving researchers, policymakers, communicators, and other stakeholders with a history of engagement with at-risk populations and communities.
• Co-develop and co-produce the necessary evidence to fill the identified gap with the involvement of impacted populations and communities.
• Communicate the evidence to the target audience.
• Provide recommendations for potential solutions.
• The award will be held by a team of researchers led by an established team leader from an eligible administering institution.  
• Co-applicants must:
• Be based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).
• Be able to contribute at least 20% of their time to this project.
• Be essential for the delivery of the proposed project and provide added value to the team.
• Be based at an eligible organization that can sign up for the grant conditions.
• Include in-country policy actors and/or practitioners, civil servants, private sector, and civil society actors.
• Do not need to have a permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contract at their organization.
• Can be at any career stage.
• Your application can have a maximum of 7 co-applicants. 
• For more information about the eligibility of the opportunity, click here.

About Wellcome:

Wellcome is a global charitable foundation established in 1936. Through its work, it supports science to solve the urgent health issues facing everyone. It funds curiosity-driven research, and it's taking on three of the biggest health challenges facing humanity – climate change, infectious disease, and mental health.

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