Applications are welcome from early career researchers for the 2022 Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize.
The Wellcome Data Prize in mental health will support collaborative approaches to research into anxiety and depression in young people. Teams in the UK and South Africa will explore existing data to find new insights and build digital tools that enable future research.
However, the Prize aims to generate tangible and scalable outputs that support the mental health research community. Also, the key aim of this prize is to build a multidisciplinary mental health data community by bringing together people with mental health research backgrounds and data expertise. By mental health science, we mean any discipline that uses evidence in rigorous and transparent ways, whether based on observation or experimentation. This could include:
- psychiatry
- psychology
- neuroscience
- disciplines within the humanities, social sciences, and computer sciences, among others.
Lead applicant organizations should be either:
- a higher education institution
- a research institute
- a non-academic healthcare organization
- a not-for-profit organization.
Duration of funding: 6-18 months
Benefits
There are three phases to the prize:
- Discovery Phase: an initial 10 teams will be selected to receive £40,000 of funding.
- Prototyping Phase: five teams from the Discovery Phase will receive £100,000.
- Sustainability Phase: three winning teams will receive £500,000.
Eligibility
Applications for the Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize for Early must meet the following requirements:
Lead applicants:
- must be based in the UK or South Africa.
- maybe at any career stage but must have a permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one for the full duration of the award.
- They must also be based at an eligible host organization that can sign up for the grant conditions.
Co-applicants:
- can be at any career stage and based anywhere in the world, apart from mainland China.
- can be self-employed, e.g. a freelance data scientist.
Deadline: June 05, 2022.
For more information and application, visit the official site.
