GCRF: Recent project awards

The following newly recorded projects were funded by UKRI's Global Challenges Research Fund programme.
This information was downloaded on 17 September 2020 by the DevPubMetric system using data published in the UKRI Gateway to Research database over the preceeding month.

The total value of the 17 awards reported below is £8,221,156.


FunderReferenceProject TitleLead OrganisationAward ValueStart DateEnd Date
AHRCAH/T007931/1Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace (CUSP)University of Glasgow£1,905,776Apr 2020Sep 2023
EPSRCEP/V028332/1GCRF_NF55 Fast-track vaccine cold-chain assessment and design for mass scale COVID-19 vaccination in Bangladesh (VaCoBD)University of Birmingham£529,593Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V029177/1GCRF_NF118: Capacity building reliable diagnostic & epidemiological tools to confront the spectre of a COVID-19 epidemic in refugee communities...University of Salford£515,547Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V029088/1GCRF_NF123: COVID-19, social distancing and violence against women in Brazil (BRAVE)University of York£220,063Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V028979/1GCRF_NF100 PPE & Refugees: dealing with a crisis by building livelihoodsUniversity of Sheffield£786,483Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V028499/1GCRF_NF98_Building an Early Warning System for community-wide infectious disease spread: SARS-CoV-2 tracking in Africa via environment fingerprintingUniversity of Bath£441,015Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V028146/1GCRF_NF72 Development, evaluation and implementation of a digital support to improve the management of cancer and mitagate the impact of COVID-19Queen's University of Belfast£219,958Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V028480/1GCRF_NF106 Entrepreneurial resilience & recovery during and after covid-19 crisis: firm- & community-level responses in Wuhan, Malaysia, and ThailandImperial College London£305,225Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V028197/1To develop a Zambian context specific short and long term model for managing COVID-19 pandemic and future infectious disease outbreaks.Birmingham City University£152,311Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V029193/1GCRF_NF127 A capabilities assessment of Covid-19 changes to the Workers' Rights Act in Mauritius:implications for domestic and migrant workersUniversity of Strathclyde£199,579Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V028456/1GCRF_NF39: COVID-19 Child Abuse Prevention Emergency ResponseUniversity of Oxford£472,297Aug 2020Feb 2021
EPSRCEP/V029118/1GCRF_NF143 Barcoding Galapagos: Recording and mitigating Covid-19 impacts using key-workers in eco-tourismUniversity of Exeter£696,478Aug 2020Nov 2021
EPSRCEP/V028464/1GCRF_NF109: GCRFCV19@ukri.org African elections during the COVID-19 pandemicUniversity of Edinburgh£343,670Aug 2020Aug 2021
EPSRCEP/V028162/1GCRF_NF94: Identifying and mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on legal and sustainable wildlife trade in LMICsUniversity of Birmingham£340,346Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V028103/1GCRF_NF101: Internally Displaced Persons and COVID-19: Leveraging local low cost COVID-19 solutions in informal settlements in ZimbabweUniversity of Nottingham£255,582Aug 2020Feb 2022
EPSRCEP/V028014/1GCRF_NF119 Poverty, vulnerability and crime: What does COVID-19 mean for Nigerian street vendors?University of Sussex£194,003Aug 2020Feb 2022
MRCMR/T029668/1Prevention of severe RSV infection by a helminth-induced serum factor that elicits antiviral monocytes?University of Edinburgh£643,230Aug 2020Jul 2023