Mental Health Award: accelerating scalable digital mental health interventions

This call will fund research to evaluate and further develop scalable digital interventions to advance early intervention in depression, anxiety and psychosis.

The proposed intervention:

  • should target symptom(s) and/or functional impairments related to anxiety, depression or psychosis to advance early intervention
  • can include (but is not limited to) software, artificial intelligence, web-based programmes, mobile applications, chatbots, extended reality, wearable devices or video games
  • can be standalone or adjunct to other treatments and can be designed for delivery in a range of settings such as healthcare, workplaces, schools, homes or other environments 

Lived experience experts should be engaged in multiple aspects and stages of the research. They should be involved as colleagues who use their personal knowledge and expertise to inform the strategic direction, governance, design and delivery of the research. 

Eligibility: Teams must include the research expertise required to drive the proposed research, an organisation which can take the intervention to scale (whether a company or not-for-profit) and lived experience experts.

Level of funding: £3-7 million per project for a duration of up to 5 years.


Key dates

  • 29 July 2024: applications open w/c and full details of the call are published
  • 10 September 2024: funding webinar
  • 12 September 2024: registration deadline for matchmaking and matches shared
  • 05 December 2024: full application deadline

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