Highlight notices

Highlight notices are calls for projects to answer a specific research question that has been identified by our Diabetes Research Steering Groups.

They are different from our strategic calls as instead of being funded from a specific fund, the applications to highlight notices are included in our project grants round which run twice per year. Money for our highlight notices is not ringfenced and the applications are in competition with all other applications in the project grant round.

On this page you can find our open research highlight notices and an archive of previous highlight notices.

Open research highlight notice

Addressing health inequalities in diabetes

Research shows that diabetes does not affect everyone equally. Health inequalities have been widely reported in diabetes care for those from ethnic minority groups, for those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, and for those with other protected characteristics.

Diabetes UK welcomes all applications for research which address the issue of inequality in diabetes.

We strongly encourage applications which are co-led by people with diabetes/community organisations/researchers from underserved groups.

Read the highlight notice (PDF, 262KB) and plain English summary (PDF, 103KB).

Highlight notice archive

2024

• Implementing glucose monitoring technologies in hospitals and care homes for people living with diabetes Read the highlight notice and plain English summary. 

• Improving access to, and understanding of, support for people with type 2 diabetes who want to put their condition into, or maintain remission. Read the highlight notice and plain English summary.

2023

• Improving understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of people living with early-onset type 2 diabetes. Read the highlight notice and plain English summary. 
• Identifying and addressing problematic polypharmacy in people with diabetes. In partnership with Polypharmacy UK. Read the highlight notice and plain English summary.
• Reducing sight loss in people living with diabetes. In partnership with Moorfields Eye Charity, Fight for Sight, and The Macular Society. Read the highlight notice and plain English summary.

2022

• Understanding the link between COVID-19 and diabetes. Read the highlight notice. 
• Understanding the clinical relevance of c-peptide concentrations in type 1 diabetes. Read the highlight notice and plain English summary. 

2021

• Understand the pathogenesis of diabetes that develops atypically, or in minority populations. In partnership with Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Read the highlight notice and plain English summary.
• Diabetes and foot care. In partnership with Great Foundations. Read the highlight notice and plain English summary.

2020

• New glucose monitoring technologies in inpatient care. Read the highlight notice. 
• Practice-based pharmacy research into diabetes. In partnership with Pharmacy Research UK. Read the highlight notice. 

2019

• Menopause and diabetes self-management. Read the highlight notice.