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Research teams must include representatives from two or more disciplines or faculties and the project idea should be interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary, in nature. For the avoidance of doubt, we follow the definition of interdisciplinary research:

“Interdisciplinary research is understood to achieve outcomes (including new approaches) that could not be achieved within the framework of a single discipline. Interdisciplinary research features significant interaction between two or more disciplines and/or moves beyond established disciplinary foundations in applying or integrating research approaches from other disciplines.”

We take of transdisciplinary research as research that “has various definitions but is often defined as research that transgresses boundaries between disciplinary knowledge or integrates different bodies of knowledge and actively co-creates knowledge between academic and societal partners such as policy makers or business”.

Lead applicants must be academic staff employed by the University until at least 31 July 2026 and cannot be a postgraduate researcher.
Additional partners can be:

• External partner organisations working in the CH space

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the current system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. Impact is one of the measures by which the REF judges institutions’ research.

In the REF, Impact is defined as an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia. For REF2021, impact was assessed in terms of ‘rigour, reach and significance’. More broadly, universities think about ‘impact’ as making change in the real world that can be demonstrated or proved.

Lead academics may wish to discuss their application with their school’s Director of Impact. 

Projects must include:

• the possibility of generating or leading to step-change in partnerships between academic researchers from different disciplines in the area of creative health
• a clear benefit to all applicant/s research and/or the impact of their research in creative health
• activity which has clear potential to lead to future collaboration and impact in creative health.

Projects could include:

• an external partner working in the creative health space.

We are keen to support a broad range of approaches to the topic. These could include but are not restricted to the following thematic areas that have emerged so far as areas of strength at 映客直播:

• Mental health and wellbeing, particularly in children and young people
• Long term health conditions
• Health inequalities
• Creative ageing (artistic and creative engagement to enhance well-being, physical and cognitive abilities in older people).

We plan to inform successful applicants by mid-October. Please leave sufficient time for your Head of School to read and approve your application before submission. The selection panel will comprise an academic representative, professional staff from the Cultural Institute and a representative from Leeds Arts Health and Wellbeing Network.

If you are successful, you may start your project immediately. Funding will be administered through the School in which the lead applicant academic is based.

You will be asked to report on your project 3 months after it has been awarded and on completion. This reporting is light touch, but mandatory.

If your activity includes public facing events or exhibitions, we require grantees to credit the Ignite Fund. Full details of how to do this will be sent to the successful applicants.

Please for further Information or guidance.

We will not provide continuation of funding for projects funded through Ignite Creative Health.

The funding can cover the full costs of the activity including, but not limited to:

• Recompense to individual participants in activity where appropriate. If this will be administered by the academic applicant, they should liaise with their School professional services team about processes which need to be followed when costing this item.
• Materials
• Venue and equipment hire
• UK travel and subsistence – while not ineligible, support to cover international travel is unlikely to be supported by Ignite CREATIVE HEALTH. A very robust demonstration of value for money must be made for this to be considered.
• Access costs
• Freelance professionals or organisations working in the Creative Health space. Please be guided by Rates of Pay - Artists' Union England
• Time from a PG researcher to support the project. The academic applicant must liaise with their School professional services team when costing this item.

The funding cannot be used to cover:

• IT or substantial equipment purchase.
• Buying out the time of staff who are already contracted at Leeds.

Sustainability

Please consider and show how you are thinking about sustainability in relation to the attached additional guidance. 

Ethics

• Please ensure that you are appropriately recompensing partners and/or participants for their involvement in your project.
• Please consider how equitable your working methods and activities are. Further guidance for academic partners is available here:
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Some researchers might also be interested in the Sapling Fund, administered by LAHRI and the Cultural Institute.

This scheme aims to allow researchers to achieve a step-change in partnership working with at least one non-HE partner through a project rooted in research in arts, humanities and/or culture.

For more information, please visit our Sapling Fund page.

The main Ignite fund is available for researchers who want to work with an external partner on a project that involves creativity and/or art making.

For more information, please visit our Ignite Fund page.