The calls for proposals below may be of interest to researchers using interdisciplinary approaches to tackle international development problems. LIDC members who plan to apply are encouraged to contact Catherine Fletcher (catherine.fletcher@lidc.bloomsbury.ac.uk), Programme Development, LIDC, for help with partnering within LIDC's Colleges.

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Title: Future of Aid and Beyond Research Competition

 

Funding available and duration: Up to £100k over two financial years. A second call of proposal will be made in 2011

 

Deadline: 5 PM UK Time, 12 July, 2010

 

 

 

Funding available and duration: Up to £100kover two years for 8 proposal in Phase 1. Phase 2 will grant £200k over two years to the 4 best proposals out of the 8 in Phase 1.

 

Deadline: 5 PM UK Time, 12 July, 2010

 

Summary: The DFID Research Strategy 2008 – 2013 recognised that new and emerging cutting edge technologies are being developed, albeit for industrialised markets, that could have a real relevance to the needs of poor people. Challenge for DFID does not lie in the development of these technologies, nor in their commercial application, but in what is frequently referred to as translational research to support the longer term development agenda. The three key platform technologies identified in the strategy were biotechnology, information and communication technology (ICT) and nanotechnology. The Competition (NET‐RC) will seek to identify the key challenges and barriers that may be reducing the impact of these technologies on the lives of poor people and help to identify some of the key technologies that could form the basis of further work. DFID encourages proposals from researchers based in developing countries, and proposals including such researchers in the study team.

 

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Title: MRC, DfID, Wellcome Trust joint Call for Global Health Trials

 

Funding available and duration: A total of up to £12 million is available to support several awards

 

Deadline: 4pm UK Time, 15th September 2010 for outline applications submission; non-mandatory registration 13 August 2010

 

Description: The purpose of this scheme is to provide funding for the best proposals to generate new knowledge about interventions that will contribute to the improvement of health in low and middle income countries. The programme will give priority to proposals that are likely to produce implementable results and that are designed to address the major causes of mortality or morbidity in low and middle income countries.

 

 

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Title: Second call of the DFID-ESRC Joint Scheme for Research on International Development

 

Funding available: £100,000 - £500,000 

 

Deadline: 4pm UK time, 30 September 2010

 

Description: The purpose of this fund is to support high quality development research which provides a more robust conceptual and empirical basis for development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

In addition to research under the overall banner of poverty alleviation, DFID and ESRC have identified three thematic areas for this call where work will be of particular interest. These areas are:

 

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