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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 Analytics22 76,112,452
Climate Change52 99,894,123
Crime Prevention and Personal Security9 28,439,968
Cross-Disciplinarity and Co-Creation37 111,745,984
Cross-ICT: New and Emerging24 62,902,916
Cross-ICT: Photonics for Future Systems24 40,177,820
Cross-ICT: Working Together14 11,514,067
Culture13 32,942,360
Data-Enabled Decision Making63 134,397,967
Defence46 193,109,909
Dial A Molecule GC20 38,763,554
Digital Economy95 238,400,480
Digital Economy: Beyond a Data-Driven Economy7 16,321,295
Digital Economy: Content Creation & Consumption11 41,995,080
Digital Economy: Equitable Digital Society20 54,594,684
Digital Economy: Sustainable Digital Society18 47,199,071
Digital Economy: Trust, Identity, Privacy & Security63 146,589,250
Directed Assembly GC5 8,939,522
Energy359 822,636,200
Eng GC - Atoms to applications7 14,438,588
Eng GC - Cities9 24,165,678
Eng GC - Risk and resilience40 75,983,071
Eng GC - Water9 37,507,538
Forensics1 5,903,131
Future Intelligent Technologies50 133,758,348
Health204 446,009,611
Healthcare GC – Developing New Therapies87 177,677,189
Healthcare GC - Expanding the Frontiers of Physical Intervention43 87,972,284
Healthcare GC - Optimising Disease Prediction, Diagnosis and Intervention73 142,503,091
Healthcare GC - Transforming Health and Care Beyond the Hospital99 209,937,680
International Development10 1,519,241
Leisure3 6,686,348
Manufacturing Research287 642,704,767
Mobility10 54,319,335
Nanotechnology42 93,662,119
New and Emerging Areas31 65,700,172
No relevance to Socio-economic Themes1,326 1,334,066,985
People at the Heart of ICT28 35,542,170
Physics GC - Far from Equilibrium10 4,694,238
Physics GC - Nanoscale Design12 25,172,496
Physics GC - Physics of Life28 41,353,643
Physics GC - Quantum Technologies121 212,988,846
Safe and Secure ICT74 124,469,956
Sustainability128 364,321,162
Systems Chemistry GC1 4,607,091
Transport78 205,623,102
Urban Living7 24,766,736
Wealth4 12,293,253

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