CREST nabs+ 2025 Commissioning Programme Call

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:

• The effects of autonomous decision-making systems on the workforce
• Human-AI Teaming in National Security
• Mapping the ecosystem of violent online networks promoting harm to minors
• Engagement and Disengagement with violent online networks
• A ‘richer picture’ of information manipulation threats
• Prioritising information manipulation and interference threats
• Interactions between digital information threats and countermeasures

Total CREST funds for this call are £500,000. 

Funding: £48,000  (+20% matching from applicant resources) 

Duration: 12 months

Research Authority due date: 1.9.25