Deadline: 22 July 2025
The Wellcome Trust’s Mental Health Award is looking to fund projects that draw on the potential of longitudinal data to drive innovation in early identification of anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.
Successful teams will integrate advanced analytics of longitudinal data with experimental research to enable more precise and effective early interventions.
Funding Information
- Grant Amount: £1-5 million per project
- Duration: 3-5 years
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply to this call if you are a team of researchers:
- From any relevant discipline. They consider a broad range of disciplines to be relevant to mental health science, as long as the research fits within their principles of mental health funding
- From eligible organisations
- Based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)
- They encourage applications from:
- Diverse and interdisciplinary teams, with collaborations covering multiple areas of expertise relevant to the proposed project
- Researchers at any stage of their career, including those who are new to the field of mental health and data science
Ineligibility Criteria
- You should not apply for this call if:
- You intend to carry out activities which involve the transfer of funds into mainland China.
- You cannot demonstrate that you can dedicate enough time and resources to the project, if funded.
- You already have applied for, or hold, the maximum number of Wellcome awards for your career stage. Find out how many Wellcome awards you can apply for, or hold, at one time depending on your career stage.
- You are already an applicant on two applications for this funding call. You can be, at a maximum:
- A lead applicant on one application and a co-applicant on another one.
- A co-applicant on two applications.
- You must demonstrate that you have sufficient capacity for both projects if funded. The applications should be for different projects with no overlap of activities.
- There is no limit on the number of applications on which an individual collaborator can be named, provided they have sufficient capacity.
Assessment Criteria
- There are four weighted assessment criteria for applications:
- Research question and proposed methodology
- Suitability and expertise of the team
- Suitability of the research location and approach to research environment
- Lived experience involvement
For more information, visit Wellcome Trust.
