Applications open for Racial Disparities Grant (UK and US)

Areas of Research

• This call aims to address some of the key challenges contributing to the health inequalities experienced by the Black community and they welcome proposals from the fields of biomedical and social sciences.
• They welcome any proposal that has the intention and potential to make a meaningful difference towards levelling the playing field for Black men.

Funding Information

• Pilot grants of £50-100k: to generate data to power a future application for a larger, longer-term award. These may be useful if an applicant has not had sufficient resources to gather strong preliminary data, or a project is felt to be particularly high-risk.
• Project grants may be up to £500,000 and up to 4 years in duration. Funding can be used to cover directly incurred research costs such as: salaries, consumables, travel, and equipment.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications are accepted from academic or research institutions, or hospitals that are based in the UK or USA. National or international collaborations will be considered as long as the award can be administered through a UK- or USA-based lead host institution.
• They will be accepting proposals for social or medical research projects.
• The lead applicant(s) must be based in the UK or USA and at minimum have a PhD (or equivalent higher research degree) and three (3) years of independent research experience. However, if you have less than three (3) years of independent research experience, you may still apply under the mentorship of a senior. They assess eligibility on years of experience, not calendar time since qualification, or on age.
• They welcome co-PIs on projects and encourage eligible early career researchers to apply in their own name.
• They encourage involvement from community groups and patients, including as co-investigators and/or collaborators.
• They are aware that career paths are not necessarily linear. For example, some people may have caring responsibilities or may have been adversely affected by disruptions caused by the pandemic. If you have an idea that could improve the situation for people affected by prostate cancer, they encourage you to apply to their schemes. They have provided the option for you to provide contextual information on any gaps in your career and/or publishing history, and any impacts of COVID-19 on your research, that you may want them to take into account so that they can assess your application fairly.
• The project should boost prostate cancer research and build capacity in advanced prostate cancer research.

For more information, visit Prostate Cancer Research.