Huo Family Foundation
The Huo Family Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for research proposals, with a total budget of up to £10M/$13M, on the Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People. We believe there is an opportunity to help advance the research and the field of knowledge in this area, both by strengthening existing as well as creating new methods and approaches to better model and unpick the complexities of this topic.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
We welcome applications for Huo early-career fellowships, junior faculty research grants and special projects:
- Huo early-career fellowships – up to three years, up to £130k/$169k pa –to support talented and promising postdoctoral researchers on the path to independence. Typically, the researchers must be within four years of completing PhD and without their first permanent position. Fellows should have a sponsor, who has a permanent position at the host institution. Find out more about applying for this grant.
- Junior faculty research grants – up to three years, up to £200k/$260k pa – to support focused research projects led by new lecturers/assistant professors, who typically took up their first permanent/tenure-track position within the last two years. Find out more about applying for this grant.
- Special projects – up to four years, up to £300k/$390k pa – these larger and longer-term awards will allow researchers of all career stages, collaborating as a multi-disciplinary team with different expertise and skills, to take an integrated approach to tackle the more difficult questions in this domain. Find out more about applying for this grant.
We are keen to support multi-disciplinary work. We want to help train the next generation of exceptional scientists in this rapidly evolving field. Applications should attempt to understand mechanisms, causal pathways and directions.
Awarded grants can be held at colleges, universities and research institutes in the UK and in the US only. The organisation should have charitable status or a nonprofit status such as 501(c)(3).
HOW TO APPLY AND MORE INFORMATION
Applications should be submitted via our online grant system by 23 May 2025, and will then be peer-reviewed and shortlisted proposals considered by a funding committee panel of external experts. Funding decisions will be issued in November 2025, with the first annual grant payment in December 2025 for research activity to begin in early 2026. A detailed timeline and other information are available on the HFF website.
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With best wishes,
Science Team
Huo Family Foundation