Selected funding opportunities

Pre announcement: ESRC React Awards (pilot)
Apply for responsive funding to generate time-critical research to support policymakers and practitioners delivering frontline services in the UK.

Continuing areas of interest to the Public Health Research Programme
The NIHR PHR Programme is inviting outline applications to its commissioned workstream for research topics that continue to be of interest, including: increasing vaccination uptake, workforce health, suicide prevention, healthy homes, healthy extended working life, and more. 

Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible
Wellcome will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that can drive policy impact by combining evidence generation (or synthesis) with influencing and engagement strategies.

Genomics in Context Awards: collaborative research at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and bioethics.
This award will bring together teams to shape interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discovery research agendas across genomics and its wider contexts

Themed call: Prevention revolution: Early action to prevent poor health outcomes
NIHR is announcing a targeted prevention funding opportunity, which is part of a coordinated response by NIHR to the DHSC areas of research interest 1 (ARI1): early action to prevent poor health outcomes.

Wellcome Mental Health Award: Transforming early intervention for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people
Funding for projects that robustly test the real-world effectiveness and assess implementation strategies of scalable transformative early interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.

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

• 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

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