This call will support innovative, cross-disciplinary research addressing the harms caused by noise and building the capacity of the network to develop (1) mission-led proposals in a second funding call, and (2) larger collaborative bids for other forms of funding. We are seeking projects that test new and imaginative ideas, gather missing evidence and/or carry out feasibility studies laying the ground for larger collaborative bids. These could bring together academia, industry, government and third sector organisations to focus on noise related research relevant to the priorities, themes and challenges identified in the Tomorrow's Engineering Research Challenges (TERC) report.

In this first call, we will fund up to six awards of 3 to 6 months in duration, with a maximum budget of £40k per successful project (£40k Full Economic Cost, with awards at 80% of this i.e. £32k). Eligible costs are determined by UKRI criteria and may include Project Lead and Co-Lead time, travel and consumables and mobility funds. Regarding eligibility, each bidding team must include at least one member who is early in their career, and the lead must be from a UKRI eligible institution. We encourage applications from early career people and from a diverse range of disciplines and sectors

A word copy of the application form may be found here (docx). Please note there are minor changes to the form posted on 4th November.
Changes 2025-11-12: Added a section for Data Management Plans and removed the need to identify conflict with the Noise Network Team as this will be managed by the EB

Proposals should be submitted via the network project website (the form will be available shortly) The call deadline is the 12th December 2025

Details of the call and process may be found here (docx).

The template award letter may be found here (docx). We make this available so that the post award contract signing stage can be streamlined. The terms are non-negotiable.

If you have any questions, please contact us via our Noise Network mailbox: noise@surrey.ac.uk.

We may be using CMT to help us manage the review process for the funding calls, below is their required text for this service.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.