This page provides information about selected funding opportunities. Click here for information about funding organisations in the UK with more comprehensive listings of opportunities.
Opening soon:
Organisation | Details | Date |
Wellcome |
Mental Health Award: Leveraging longitudinal data to transform early intervention in mental health
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Opens: 23 April 2025 Deadline: 22 July 2025 |
NIHR |
Public Health Research Programme - future topics |
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 opens: 24 February 2025 Expression of interest closes: 8 April 2025 |
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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 |
Funder deadline: 25 April 2025 |
NIHR |
Interventions to deliver inclusive economies |
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:
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Details |
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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. |
Ongoing |
EPSRC |
Standard research grants (EPSRC) 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) |
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:
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There are three deadlines a year |
MRC |
MRC Career Development Award
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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 |