UKRI/AHRC GCRF Urgency Grants Scheme Highlight Notice for Innovation Awards / Case Studies on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Persons with Disabilities
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), on behalf of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), working in partnership with the UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Multi-Partner Trust Fund (UNPRPD MPTF) is pleased to announce a new funding initiative for Innovation Awards / Case Studies on the impacts of COVID-19 on persons with disabilities under the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). This call aims to bring together the UK and Low and Middle Income Country (LMIC) cross-disciplinary research expertise with UNDP and UNPRPD members country offices as relevant, governments, civil society (in particular those representing persons with disabilities) and persons with disabilities to co-produce a cluster of innovation awards/research case studies.
The aim of these awards/studies is to build the evidence base about the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on persons with disabilities, to explore the development of new participatory, co-produced and other mixed research methods and approaches drawing across disciplines for undertaking situational analysis in developing countries and to inform the development of strategies for disability-inclusive recovery from the pandemic and ‘building back better’ to a more disability-inclusive world.
Eligibility and Funding for this highlight notice are the same as for the AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Urgency Grants pilot scheme, subject to the modifications outlined below, including amended funding limits and extended provisions for cross-disciplinary proposals across UKRI subject remits.
This highlight notice document should be read in conjunction with the AHRC GCRF Urgency Grants pilot scheme call documents at https://ahrc.ukri.org/documents/calls/gcrf-urgency-grants-pilot-guidance... particularly with regard to the eligibility requirements and guidance on costings outlined in that call documentation.
Please note that the eligibility requirements for international researchers outlined in the UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund Agile Response call to address COVID-19 and the AHRC GCRF Urgency Grants pilot scheme apply to this highlight notice and therefore proposals will only be accepted from LMIC country Principal Investigators from an organisation that leads or has previously led and held UKRI grants as the lead research organisation. All applications led by organisations outside of the UK must be able to provide a UKRI grant reference for a grant led and held by the organisation or they will not be eligible to apply as the lead research organisation under this highlight notice.
