CREST Commissioning Programme: Third Broad Topic Solicitation

CREST is seeking to identify and fund innovative and forward-looking economic, behavioural and social science research that will contribute to our understanding of contemporary security threats, or enhance the UK’s capacity to detect and mitigate such threats.

Topic focus

Applicants should propose a programme of work that addresses one of the following topics:

• Behaviour change
• Information disclosure in online/virtual environments
• Assessing the health of a relationship
• Developing, measuring and maintaining rapport across different contexts
• Moral Injury and belief change
• Individual differences in the adoption and use of new technology
• Behavioural analytics
• Human engagement with Artificial/Augmented Intelligence
• Misinformation and disinformation
• Violent Domestic Extremism.

Funding: £100,000 (+20% matching from applicant resources) 

Duration: 6 or 12 months

Research Authority due date: 16.1.19