Mental Health Award: Understanding how anxiety- and trauma-related problems develop, persist and resolve

This award will fund researchers to investigate the causal mechanisms through which brain, body and environment interact over time in the development, persistence and resolution of anxiety- and trauma-related disorders.

Career stage:
Early-career researcher, Established researcher, Leading a research programme, Mid-career researcher, Postdoctoral research
Where your administering organisation is based:
Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)
Level of funding: Up to £4 million
Duration of funding:Up to 5 years

To be eligible to apply, applicants must address at least one of the following two priorities. 

1. Research that considers multiple levels of explanation 
2. Research in low- and middle-income countries  

You can apply to this call if you are a team of researchers: 

from any relevant discipline (we consider a broad range of disciplines to be relevant to mental health science, including but not limited to those listed in our mental health funding remit)
from an eligible organisation
based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China). 

We encourage applications from: 

diverse and interdisciplinary teams, with collaborations covering multiple areas of expertise (for example, biological, psychological and social)
researchers at any stage of their career, including early career researchers and/or those who are new to the field of mental health science.