Beyond the pandemic: the impact of the COVID-19 research response in low- and middle-income countries

Join us for our half-day conference, ‘Beyond the Pandemic: The Impact of the COVID-19 Research Response in Low- and Middle-Income Countries’, 13 December 2022.

Event: The role of funders in enabling equitable research partnerships for development

Live recording from UKCDR & ESSENCE's virtual session ‘The role of funders in enabling equitable research partnerships for development’ as part of the Science Summit at United Nations General Assembly 77 (UNGA77) on the 26th of September 2022.

ESRC and AHRC: Large grants for ambitious research in the social sciences: outline stage

DEADLINE: 20 SEP 2022

Apply for a large grant to fund ambitious social science-focused research with the potential to generate significant economic or societal impact.

ERC: Starting Grants

DEADLINE: 25 OCT 2022

Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research...

NIHR: Global Health Research Funding Committee Membership

DEADLINE: 16 SEP 2022

Welcoming and encouraging applications from individuals based in LMICs, these programmes provide funding to support not only delivery of research but also strengthen crucial research capability and capacity in resource-poor settings, including training and capacity-strengthening in both academic research and programme support functions.

Equitable partnerships: Lessons from practitioners

This blog series, ‘Equitable Partnerships: Lessons from Practitioners’, explores the importance of equity, as well as its barriers and enablers.  Each blog provides best practices and learning examples informed by their experience in the field.

Charting the path to quality, sustainable and impactful research capacity strengthening

UKCDR's report, ‘Research Capacity Strengthening: lessons from UK-funded initiatives in low- and middle-income countries’, collates learnings from across initiatives and disciplines and builds upon learning from UKCDR’s 2021 briefing paper mapping UK funders’ RCS investments in LMICs (2016-2021).

Research Capacity Strengthening: lessons from UK-funded initiatives in low- and middle-income countries

This learning report is part of a UKCDR-led cross-funder review of UK-funded research capacity strengthening (RCS) programmes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). This report builds upon our 2021 briefing paper by collating learning from UK-funded RCS initiatives in LMICs, across disciplines, and providing recommendations for designing, implementing, and evaluating future funds and programmes.

Tracker Highlights

4. New variants To date, the world has seen nearly 500 million known cases of COVID-19 and the pandemic has claimed over six million lives [1]. All viruses, including...