Strategic Research Calls

To provide support to projects that have been identified by the Diabetes Research Steering Groups as priority areas. Please keep a look out for future calls. 

Closed calls 

2023 

Improving services for people living with diabetes - diabetes and mental wellbeing/mental health and growing older with diabetes 

NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) and Diabetes UK are partnering to invite researchers to submit proposals that aim to improve services for people living with diabetes. 

2022 

Advancing research into diabetes-related stigma 

Identified by Diabetes Research Steering Groups which aims to better understand stigma experienced by people with diabetes, including people with different types of diabetes and from different communities. It also aims to identify strategies to reduce or prevent diabetes-related stigma.  

Research to identify the potential benefits of preventing, identifying and managing diabetes distress in routine diabetes care pathways (PDF, 123KB) 

NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) partnered with Diabetes UK in Competition 40, which launched in October 2022. Co-funding was available for programmes of applied research which aimed to better prevent and/or support people with diabetes distress. These included new interventions, implementation of proven interventions, or other approaches that complement existing programmes in order to optimise engagement or effectiveness. 

2021 

NIHR PGfAR for Diabetes Remission (PDF, 193KB)  

NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) and Diabetes UK welcomed applications for collaborative, multidisciplinary programmes of applied research which aim to investigate the implementation, in primary care or the community, of new approaches with clear potential for putting Type 2 diabetes into remission within 12 months of diagnosis. programmes to enhance the effectiveness, engagement or longevity of the remission effect. 

2020 

NIHR PGfAR partnership - Preventing or slowing the progression of diabetes complications in Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes who are at extremely high risk (PDF, 115KB) 

Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) partnered with Diabetes UK for proposals which aim to prevent or slow the progression of diabetes complications in Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes who are at extremely high risk.   

COVID-19 and diabetes, rapid research call (PDF, 127KB) 

Diabetes UK called for applications that will further the understanding of COVID-19 in relation to people living with diabetes. 

2019 

Diabetes and Eating Disorders (PDF, 133KB) 

Diabetes and mental wellbeing was identified as a research priority by the diabetes Clinical Studies Groups and the Type 2 James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership. Diabetes UK invited applications for high quality and innovative research proposals focused on improving the understanding of the epidemiology and mechanisms of eating disorders, or how to manage them effectively, in people with diabetes.