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

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

Published on: 14 January 2025

Funding news

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:: Early-career researcher, Mid-career researcher, Established researcher
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

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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

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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)