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Contestable Funding Round – Now Closed

Our Land and Water is seeking proposals for research. We would like proposals for think piece research (desktop study with stakeholders, funded up to $100k over <6 months) and research programmes (research with stakeholders, funded up to $1 million over <18 months). The deadline for proposal submission is 31 March 2022.

Figure 1. The three themes for OLW research, and their critical research needs (OLW NSC Strategy 2019-2024, and OLW Research Workplan Update 2020).

Our Land and Water is seeking proposals for research addressing key questions across four topic areas:

  1. Effects of global disruptions or trends on land-use decisions
  2. The pace and long-term consequences of land-use change
  3. Understanding the social license to farm
  4. A stable, publicly accessible digital platform for land and water monitoring data and tools

Proposals should be scoped as either:

  • Think Piece: A desktop study with stakeholders, to produce an output that answers, explores and/or refines the research question(s) as appropriate, valued up to $100k and with a duration of up to 6 months.
  • Research Programme: Research with stakeholders to produce outputs that directly answer specific research questions, valued up to $1 million with a duration of up to 18 months.

The total value of the fund is approximately $5 million. The deadline for proposal submission is 31 March 2022.

More information can be found here and below.


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Author

Annabel McAleer

Communications Manager, Our Land and Water. Text in this article is licensed for re-use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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