UKRI Gambling harms research and innovation partnerships

Overview

Summary

Applications must be consortia based and must bring together diverse people, institutions, expertise, experiences, places, and wider stakeholders. This includes people with lived and learned experience from gambling and gambling related harms.

By lived experience, they mean people with direct experience of gambling related harms. Partnerships with non-HEI organisations and people across the third sector, community groups, industry, and the public sector are essential. These can take different forms including project partners or collaborating organisations. 

You must demonstrate how the partnerships within your consortium are equitable, have contributed to the development of your application including its conceptualisation, and will help the centre achieve its aims.

Teams will be expected to address social, economic and environmental challenges facing communities within the geographical area of focus. They must therefore demonstrate significant expertise across the disciplines relevant to the challenges identified.

Eligibility

Project leads must be based at an institution eligible for UKRI funding. Standard UKRI eligibility requirements will apply. To host the award your organisation must be:

• a UK academic higher education institution (HEI)
• an independent research organisation (IRO) recognised by UKRI
• a UK registered business that can demonstrate the capacity to lead and manage a significant research and innovation project

Third sector institutions can act as partners and collaborating organisations.

To ensure that the project is suitably interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, the core team leading the Centre should include representatives from across UKRI’s research and innovation communities. Teams may involve multiple institutions. 

Project co-leads from government, local government, third sector and non-profit organisations and industry are eligible and encouraged for this funding opportunity.

GHRIPs

The Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Partnerships (GHRIPs) grant supports initial partnership development and evidence analysis to inform a larger future programme. 

Open to interdisciplinary consortia including UK higher education institutions, independent research organisations, and businesses, with partners from government, third sector, industry, and international groups, the fund offers up to 20 awards of up to £100,000 each (with UKRI covering 80% of costs, total fund £2 million). Activities include partnership building, stakeholder engagement, and landscape analysis. Successful phase one applicants may later apply for phase two awards up to £5 million each.

The GHRIPs will be commissioned through a two-phase competitive process. The full programme will make up to £50m available over five years. Outlined below is the GHRIP phase one opportunity.

During phase one you must provide resource and support capacity across stakeholders to undertake partnership development and landscape evidence analysis required to design the phase two work programme.

The full economic cost of your phase one project can be up to £100,000. UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) will fund 80% of the full economic cost. UKRI will fund up to 20 phase one awards for nine months.

Total fund: £2,000,000

Award range: £70,000 - £100,000

GHRCC

The UKRI Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC) grant is designed to coordinate activity across the programme. The Centre will identify gaps in gambling research, lead and manage a multidisciplinary research programme, collaborate with stakeholders to boost high-quality independent studies, explore how UKRI and other data assets can support the evidence base, and coordinate Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Partnerships (GHRIPs).

You must be based at a UK research organisation, IRO, or UK registered business eligible for UKRI funding. Open to UK higher education institutions, research organisations, and businesses, along with third-sector partners, the GHRCC will support programme management, research scoping, partnership building, and capacity development.

The full economic cost of your project can be up to £10 million. UKRI will fund 80% of the full economic cost.

These grants aim to strengthen the evidence base and inform policy, supporting communities and stakeholders affected by gambling harms through collaborative, multidisciplinary research.

Total fund: £10,000,000

Maximum award:  £10,000,000

Applicant Notes

You cannot apply to both the Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Partnerships (GHRIP) and Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC) funding opportunities. This will be checked at application processing stage.