UKRI-SBE lead agency opportunity
Collaborative UK-US research across overlapping UKRI and NSF/SBE remits.
This opportunity allows UK and US-based researchers to submit a collaborative proposal that will go through a single review process. Applications will be integrated into existing programmes at the relevant lead agency.
Proposals will be accepted for collaborative research in areas where NSF/SBE and UKRI’s research remits overlap. Collaborative research proposals may be submitted in any disciplina…
In scope are arts and humanities, biotechnology and biological science, economic and social science, and social, behavioral and economic sciences where NSF/SBE and UKRI’s research remits overlap. Proposals outside the remit of the participating organisations are not within scope.
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