Genomics in Context Awards

These awards will support transdisciplinary teams to catalyse research discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and bioethics. Funded projects will be given the time and resources to create new research agendas and explore innovative ways of working. The call aims to address the issue that wider humanities and social science fields are often underrepresented in genomics research, and communities or other social partners are often not centred, with perspectives often only included after key research decisions have already been made. This call supports novel, transdisciplinary teams to explore this area by enabling an increased breadth of collaborative partners, the earlier integration of partners at the conceptual stage of research agenda development, a focus on discovery research, and a plan for integrated collaboration across the research lifecycle. The awards support teams during the research ideation, design and partnership building phases to co-develop novel discovery research questions, methods, approaches and potentially new fields.