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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 Analytics25 82,306,332
Climate Change52 99,881,622
Crime Prevention and Personal Security10 35,379,701
Cross-Disciplinarity and Co-Creation42 115,852,064
Cross-ICT: New and Emerging25 22,810,651
Cross-ICT: Photonics for Future Systems24 40,662,036
Cross-ICT: Working Together14 11,514,067
Culture13 32,929,858
Data-Enabled Decision Making64 134,435,844
Defence45 154,027,316
Dial A Molecule GC20 38,749,487
Digital Economy96 245,287,825
Digital Economy: Beyond a Data-Driven Economy7 16,321,295
Digital Economy: Content Creation & Consumption11 41,980,061
Digital Economy: Equitable Digital Society20 54,594,684
Digital Economy: Sustainable Digital Society18 47,199,071
Digital Economy: Trust, Identity, Privacy & Security64 153,546,856
Directed Assembly GC5 8,939,522
Energy378 840,659,285
Eng GC - Atoms to applications7 14,438,588
Eng GC - Cities9 24,140,007
Eng GC - Risk and resilience42 76,770,304
Eng GC - Water9 37,493,471
Forensics1 5,903,131
Future Intelligent Technologies57 140,003,758
Health215 435,198,106
Healthcare GC – Developing New Therapies91 182,042,209
Healthcare GC - Expanding the Frontiers of Physical Intervention43 87,958,218
Healthcare GC - Optimising Disease Prediction, Diagnosis and Intervention79 148,497,605
Healthcare GC - Transforming Health and Care Beyond the Hospital108 219,529,404
International Development10 1,519,241
Leisure3 6,671,966
Manufacturing Research303 664,739,723
Mobility10 54,305,269
Nanotechnology47 96,954,599
New and Emerging Areas31 45,310,760
No relevance to Socio-economic Themes1,377 1,351,522,775
People at the Heart of ICT31 38,864,814
Physics GC - Far from Equilibrium10 4,694,238
Physics GC - Nanoscale Design14 26,107,260
Physics GC - Physics of Life28 41,339,576
Physics GC - Quantum Technologies120 162,890,895
Safe and Secure ICT79 134,167,955
Sustainability130 365,425,260
Systems Chemistry GC1 4,607,091
Transport82 193,111,345
Urban Living9 26,848,834
Wealth6 13,527,494

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