Selected funding opportunities

This page provides information about selected funding opportunities. Click here for information about funding organisations in the UK with more comprehensive listings of opportunities.

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Wellcome

Mental Health Award: Leveraging longitudinal data to transform early intervention in mental health
Wellcome are funding experts to unlock the potential of longitudinal datasets and develop innovative ways of identifying anxiety, depression and/or psychosis early. Successful teams will integrate cutting-edge analytics of longitudinal data with experimental research so that, in time, people may benefit from better targeted early interventions.

Opens: 23 April 2025

Deadline: 22 July 2025

NIHR

Public Health Research Programme - future topics
The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is considering the following topics for future commissioned research: Serious violence, Advice services, Children and young people's mental health, loneliness in the community, Coastal communities, Transport poverty, Green space and natural environments, Mid-life interventions to support healthy ageing

Opens: Spring 2025 (Possibly 18 March)

Calls added in February/March:

Organisation	Details	Date
NIHR	Mental health research groups – Round 2 NIHR is looking to establish up to ten Mental Health Research Groups (NIHR MHRGs) in geographical areas with high mental health (MH) burden, limited local research capacity and low recruitment into MH research studies.	Open: 5 March 2025 Deadline: 28 May (1pm)
MRC	Expression of interest: Supporting researchers to involve public at pre-application stage MRC is offering funding to reimburse time and expenses for public partners to work with researchers to develop MRC research funding applications of up to £20,000.	Expression of interest opens: 24 February 2025 Expression of interest closes: 8 April 2025
UKRI	UKRI Creating opportunities: rethinking economic (in)activity. Apply for funding to identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK. The maximum award for this grant is £1.2m	Opens: 3 Feb 2025 Deadline: 6 May 2025

Earlier calls

Organisation	Details	Date
Cancer Research UK	Early Detection and Diagnosis Primer Award The award of up to £100k aims to encourage scientists at all career stages to engage with the early detection and diagnosis of cancer field. It will support new and exploratory research ideas and/or pilot studies of high scientific risk and potential reward	Funder deadline: 27 March 2025
NIHR	Increasing uptake of vaccinations in populations where there is low uptake The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is looking to fund research which evaluates population level interventions delivered in non-NHS settings, which impact the uptake of existing vaccinations already available through a UK vaccination programme.	Funder deadline: 25 April 2025
NIHR	Interventions to deliver inclusive economies The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is looking to fund research which evaluates the health inequality impacts of interventions intended to deliver inclusive economies at local or regional authority level.	Funder deadline: 25 April 2025
NIHR	Healthy Homes The NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is looking to fund research which evaluates the effectiveness of strategies to reduce the negative health impacts of poor quality housing.	Funder deadline: 25 April 2025

Organisation	Details	Date
Parkinson's UK	Research Conference Awards Funding is available for Cambridge based researchers to attend conferences that support their professional development into the causes and amelioration of Parkinson’s Disease.	Applications are currently open

Ongoing calls:

Organisation	Details	Date
UKRI	Research England Development (RED) Fund The RED Fund supports projects that aid the development and interaction of the UK’s higher education research and knowledge exchange (KE) activity in line with Government and UKRI priorities. The aim of the RED fund is to drive innovation in research and KE in higher education.	Deadline: none.
BBSRC	BBSRC standard research grant Funding can support a range of activities from research projects to technology development, new infrastructure and equipment, use of equipment and facilities, networks, and summer schools.	Open - no closing date
LifeArc Philanthropic Fund	The LifeArc Philanthropic Fund is a multi-million pound grant fund to support translational medical research projects to develop treatments and diagnostics for rare diseases. Projects should be underpinned with a strong, scientific rationale in addressing a rare disease medical need and must be target driven, with a credible delivery plan and led by an academic. If you have a project focused on research into therapeutics, diagnostics or devices that could support people living with a rare disease, please get in touch by completing this form. Further details can be found here.	Ongoing
EPSRC	Standard research grants (EPSRC) Standard research is for unsolicited research proposals submitted by anyone eligible to apply to EPSRC for funding. They can be submitted at any time and in any field of research relevant to EPSRC’s remit. We encourage research collaborations with business and the public sector, particularly where they can help research advances and the take up of results.	Ongoing
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	NERC urgency funding Apply for funding to respond quickly to transient and unexpected scientific opportunities. You can only apply for urgency funding if there is an unexpected event you need urgent data on. These may be events affecting the environment created by the occurrence of sporadic natural events such as: earthquakes, droughts, floods, ephemeral events in ecosystems. The aim of this grant is to help you collect valuable data at the start of the event before other events and actions affect the data collection.	Ongoing
UKRI	MRC partnership responsive mode Apply for funding to support new partnerships between diverse groups of researchers within the remit of Medical Research Council (MRC). You must be a researcher employed by a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding. The grant will allow you to: establish new, high-value collaborative activities or capabilities add value to high-quality scientific programmes that are already supported by grants from MRC and other funders	There are three deadlines a year
MRC	MRC Career Development Award Apply for support to become an independent researcher in a medical research field. Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council (MRC)’s remit to improve human health. You must: have a PhD or equivalent show evidence of career progression show clear plans for developing as a leader in your area of research	Call closes every April and September.
EPSRC	EPSRC network grant: Nov 2023: responsive mode Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will support costs of building interdisciplinary research communities. Network grants aim to develop new interdisciplinary research communities and topics by supporting interaction between researchers and relevant science, technology and industrial groups.	Open - no closing date

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