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EPSRC Support By Socio-economic Theme

EPSRC classifies the research it supports by socio-economic theme. This taxonomy has been used to classify all grants current on 1st January 2003 or received after this date.

Please note that the assignment of a theme to a grant indicates that the theme may apply in whole or in part to the research activity of that grant. This means that the values of grants within a classification should not be totalled to find the total investment in that area or to compare investment between areas of research. The value shown for each grant is always the total awarded, not the proportion attributed to the individual socio-economic theme.
Socio-economic ThemeNumber of GrantsValue (£)
Big Data Analytics20 73,125,956
Climate Change51 99,297,344
Crime Prevention and Personal Security8 24,935,648
Cross-Disciplinarity and Co-Creation32 106,230,610
Cross-ICT: New and Emerging20 61,343,389
Cross-ICT: Photonics for Future Systems21 38,640,616
Cross-ICT: Working Together15 13,037,130
Culture11 31,394,117
Data-Enabled Decision Making58 132,055,894
Defence41 189,229,822
Dial A Molecule GC19 33,176,183
Digital Economy91 229,668,417
Digital Economy: Beyond a Data-Driven Economy6 15,053,274
Digital Economy: Content Creation & Consumption10 41,731,244
Digital Economy: Equitable Digital Society20 54,594,684
Digital Economy: Sustainable Digital Society17 46,370,394
Digital Economy: Trust, Identity, Privacy & Security63 146,593,096
Directed Assembly GC4 8,275,321
Energy336 802,969,168
Eng GC - Atoms to applications7 14,448,653
Eng GC - Cities9 24,171,140
Eng GC - Risk and resilience38 73,991,515
Eng GC - Water9 37,513,956
Forensics1 5,903,131
Future Intelligent Technologies48 135,660,550
Health185 429,622,787
Healthcare GC – Developing New Therapies81 173,398,072
Healthcare GC - Expanding the Frontiers of Physical Intervention39 84,688,111
Healthcare GC - Optimising Disease Prediction, Diagnosis and Intervention72 141,498,347
Healthcare GC - Transforming Health and Care Beyond the Hospital94 192,397,940
International Development10 1,519,241
Leisure2 6,487,345
Manufacturing Research270 600,110,164
Mobility10 54,331,779
Nanotechnology35 89,278,720
New and Emerging Areas34 67,574,637
No relevance to Socio-economic Themes1,252 1,301,468,547
People at the Heart of ICT26 33,330,926
Physics GC - Far from Equilibrium9 4,578,456
Physics GC - Nanoscale Design11 25,803,066
Physics GC - Physics of Life27 39,782,682
Physics GC - Quantum Technologies114 213,316,218
Safe and Secure ICT74 124,366,967
Sustainability122 364,461,349
Systems Chemistry GC1 4,607,091
Transport74 209,130,411
Urban Living7 24,766,736
Wealth3 12,199,317

The grant value may include the cost of access to facilities (these funds are not awarded to the grant holding organisation).