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Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health

Published on: 14 January 2025
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This award will fund projects to advance our understanding of the biological, psychological and/or social mechanisms through which heat affects anxiety, depression and psychosis in the most impacted groups globally.

Successful applications will identify relevant climate-resilient and/or mental health interventions with a realistic potential for real-world application.

Overview

Lead applicant career stage:
Administering organisation location:
Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)
Frequency:
One-off
Funding amount:

£1 – 3 million per project

Funding duration:

3 – 5 years

Coapplicants:
Accepted

Upcoming application stage

Application deadline: 21 January 2025

Application process timeline

Getting support with your application

We offer disability-related support for applicants. Read the disability-related support guidance if you:

  • are disabled or have a long-term health condition and you need help applying for funding
  • need help completing your project, for example, costs for assistive technology

If you need help with anything else, please contact us.

Who can apply

Your experience

You can apply to this call if you are a team of researchers:

  • from any discipline relevant to mental health science and climate science
  • from an eligible organisation
  • based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)

We encourage applications from:

  • researchers at any stage of their career, including early career researchers and/or those who are new to the fields of either mental health science or climate science
  • researchers from or based in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)