Funding Opportunity - UK Food Safety Research Network

25 Aug 2022

The UK Food Safety Research Network connects food industry, food and health policymakers and academia to collaboratively pursue shared research priorities that will protect the UK from foodborne hazards.

The network is hosted by Quadram Institute funded by BBSRC and the Food Standards Agency and serves as an innovation hub to coordinate and fund cross-sectoral research and training activities that address current and emerging challenges.

The network’s objectives are to:

• assemble a community of UK food producers, food policy makers and scientific researchers who collectively can take robust actions toward improving food safety
• identify areas of research need and opportunity that, in the view of food stakeholders and network members, will have meaningful impacts on UK food safety
• coordinate new collaborative research activities that will promote the application of science towards the food safety challenges identified by our food system community
• host training to promote skills development, interoperability and relationship-building between our food system community
• translate the knowledge generated within the network to food safety stakeholders, and to upcycle existing information and technologies relevant to food safety that have not yet been applied more broadly

The network is led by Quadram Institute group leaders Dr Matthew Gilmour and Dr Maria Traka.

Priority areas

There are three key areas for collaborative projects within the Network:

• Reducing microbial risk of known pathogens
• Understanding risk of alternative proteins and new plant based foods
• Applying food safety knowledge and new tools to ready-to-eat foods

First Call for Proposals and Expressions of Interest

Applications are open for the first call for proposals. The first call has two streams applications for projects that are ready to be rapidly funded and initiated (Stream A), as well as an opportunity to put forward an expression of interest for project ideas that are not yet fully formed and that will be developed in subsequent Network community forums (Stream B).

• Apply for the First Call for Proposals and Expressions of interest now
• Read our First Call Guidance and First Call FAQ for details on this opportunity.

Closing Date: 3 October 2022

For more information please click here: Food Safety Research Network - Quadram Institute

Additional information in a slide deck is available here: UKFSRN Aug 2022 Summary Deck