About

Wellcome has launched the Climate Impacts Award to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale.

They will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximise policy outcomes by combining evidence generation, policy analysis, engaged research approaches and communication strategies.

They will prioritise funding for research that involves and serves the needs of communities most impacted by the health effects of climate change, and advances stories and narratives that tend to be absent in the media or underrepresented in public discourse.

This scheme aims to make the impacts of climate change on health visible. There are many reasons the impacts of climate change could be invisible.

These include but are not limited to:

• Distance: decision makers not being based where the impacts are happening.

• Ideology: political polarisation results in missing voices, disinformation or lack of information.

• Unseen: some of the climate impacts of environmental drivers of health outcomes (for example, certain chemicals, pollutants or microscopic organisms) may not be visible and therefore may be ignored.

• Linkage: the links between climate change and health effects not being explicitly made or understood.

• Low Priority: climate change's effects on health are not given much focus due to competing priorities, unconvincing analyses and communications challenges.

Funding Information and Duration

• Up to £2.5 million

• Up to 3 years

Eligibility

• 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.

• As the lead applicant, you will be expected to:

  • have experience leading transdisciplinary teams and working in the science-policy-society interface

  • have prior experience of research engaging with policy partners

  • have knowledge brokering skills such as the ability to bring together research teams and impacted communities

  • actively promote a diverse, inclusive and supportive environment within your team and across your organisation.

• Your team can include researchers from any discipline (natural, physical and social sciences as well as technology) but must be transdisciplinary and include expertise in policy, public engagement and communications.

• Co applicants

  • Can be based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).

  • Must be able to contribute at least 20% of their time to this project.

  • Must be essential for delivery of the proposed project and provide added value to the team. For example, designing the research, writing the application, providing training, knowledge brokering or managing the programme.

  • Must have a guarantee of workspace from their organisation for the duration of the award.

Post Date: January 15, 2024