Centre for Coastal Communities

21 August 2026

Research Updates

Projects awarded over the last 12 months (over £2 million in grants):

🔗 Awarded in June: Resilient Plymouth (Pathways2Reslience) (link to follow) 210,000 EUROS (Plymouth are the lead)

🔗 Care of people at the end of their lives in the rural and coastal communities of the South West (NIHR) £1,245,372

🔗 Adult Social Care in rural and coastal areas – the issues, emerging evidence and process mapping models (NIHR) £888,808

Projects which started before July 2025 but are ongoing (additionally over £12 million in grants):

🔗 Coastal and Rural Mental Health Realist Study (CARMHRS) (NIHR) £1,366,871

🔗 Integrated models of community service delivery for children and young people in coastal regions of England: A Realist evaluation £983,398

🔗 Plymouth HDRC (Sheena lead academic) £4,862,000, Cornwall HDRC £5 million

🔗 Towards a new coastal classification and development of the Coastal England Small Area (CESA) portal (ESRC) £970,000

Projects which ended in 2025

🔗 Coastal communities – Entrepreneurial futures £40,000

🔗 Improving public funding allocation to reduce geographical inequalities £485,000 (ESRC)