The Science and Technology Facilities Council hosts record-breaking accelerators that are pushing the boundaries in many areas of science and technology and is investing in ways to make them more powerful and sophisticated.
Funding councils:
STFC
These investments support and fund cross-discipline research activities that will address the biological, medical, social and economic aspects of addiction and substance misuse.
Funding councils:
ESRCMRC
The aim of this programme is to support and fund research that examines how mental health problems emerge in young people, what makes some more susceptible or resilient than others, and how we can intervene early to promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
Funding councils:
MRC
MRC’s Adolescent Health Study (AHS) will be a new longitudinal population study and data platform. It will focus on critical biological and social developments that occur during adolescence.
The aim of AHS is to enable a better understanding of health trajectories and outcomes for young people, with a key focus on health equity.
Funding councils:
MRC
The aim of this area of investment is to fund innovative applied research to improve adolescent health in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Funding councils:
MRC
New materials have the potential to radically transform society. The role of this theme is to provide strategic leadership to a diverse and distributed community and to work across UKRI to champion investment in materials innovation and to enable novel technologies that combat societal challenges.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
The aim of this programme is to deliver a consortium-based platform of national scale that will break through the complexity of pain and reveal potential new treatment approaches to address a wide spectrum of chronic and debilitating clinical conditions.
Funding councils:
BBSRCESRCMRC
The Cultural Value Project looked at why the arts and culture matter, and how we capture their effects. The various components that make up cultural value were identified, and the methodologies and evidence that might be used to evaluate these components were considered.
Funding councils:
AHRC
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), especially resistance to antibiotics, is a growing global problem. Tackling AMR was a cross-council programme where the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) formed an essential part of a multi-disciplinary approach.
Funding councils:
AHRC
ASG is an integrated programme in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. It is being delivered by The Alan Turing Institute and is designed to improve:
- engineering through digital twins
- health through delivering personalised medicine
- physical and life sciences
- government through data-linking for policy development.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
