Selected funding opportunities

Opens: 3 Feb 2025 

Deadline: 6 May 2025

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)

Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries.
This funding call will generate a body of evidence on the health effects of climate change mitigation interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This call builds on Wellcome’s previous funding, Advancing climate mitigation policy solutions with health co-benefits in G7 countries. This award will fund transdisciplinary research teams, led by an applicant at an LMIC-based organisation.

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

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. 

Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health
This award, of between £1-3 million per project, will fund projects to advance our understanding of the biological, psychological and/or social mechanisms through which heat affects anxiety, depression and psychosis in the most impacted groups globally. 

Funder deadline: 21 Jan 2025

Public Health Research Programme Rapid Funding Scheme
The RFS has been set up to provide the public health research community with an accelerated route to funding for small-scale, short and time sensitive proposals that demonstrate a need for a rapid commissioning process to be followed.

Closes: 27 December 2024

• 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

Public Health Research Programme Rapid Funding Scheme
The Rapid Funding Scheme (RFS) offers researchers the opportunity to apply for funds to conduct rapid baseline data collection, as well as other feasibility work, prior to intervention implementation, for unique, time-limited opportunities such as a natural experiment or similar evaluations of a new public health intervention.

This scheme is not intended to fund studies which provide definitive answers to questions to inform service provision – it is to prepare for such studies.

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