Selected funding opportunities

Training Programme to meet the Medical Needs of Adults with a Learning Disability
The training programme is designed for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals working at a senior level and caring for people with a learning disability within their role. It will enhance their skill set and to address a number of cross cutting themes. This is key to enable practitioners to provide high quality and person-centred care for adults with a learning disability.
Applications are now open for February 2024 entry.

MRC/ESRC Adolescent Health Study                                                                                                                              

Pre-Announcement - Restricted call: MRC/ESRC Adolescent Health Study call for study sites (Indicative internal deadline: early February 2024)

Details for the full application stage of this scheme are not yet available and should be released in the new year.
The funders invite expressions of interest (EoIs) from eligible UK institutions to lead an AHS study site. AHS will be a new longitudinal population study focusing on the critical biological, interpersonal and environmental factors influencing adolescent development. The aim is to recruit 100,000 young people aged 8 to 18 to enrolment, primarily through schools, and will follow their health and wellbeing for a period of 12 years (two year pilot plus 10 year main phase).

Institutions can only submit one full application. Therefore, this call will be managed according to the University’s restricted calls procedure.                                                             

deadlines:

Non-Mandatory EoI: 4th December 2023

Full stage: TBA                                                                                                                                                                    

1851 Research Fellowships are intended to give early career scientists or engineers of exceptional promise the opportunity to conduct a research project of their own instigation; an ultimate objective is to contribute to the knowledge base required for a healthy and innovative national culture. 

Funder deadline: 8 January 2024

Applied global health research: stage one
Apply for funding to support applied research that will address global health challenges and inequities.
We are looking to develop a portfolio of high-quality global research, which will be diverse, promote multidisciplinarity and strengthen global health research capacity.

Webinar: 7 December 2023

Deadline: 13 February 2024 4:00pm

Deadline: February 2024

Pre-announcement: Public Health Intervention Development (PHIND)
Apply for funding for the early-stage development of an intervention that seeks to address a UK or global public health challenge.

Deadline: 19 March 2024 4:00pm

The Public Health Research Programme (PHR) is accepting Stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for thes topic.

• 23/144 Healthy homes
• 23/145 Climate change and health
• 23/146 Interventions to support women in prison or post-release
• 23/147 Men's mental health
• 23/143 Application Development Award (ADA): Data mapping as the first step to understanding e-cigarettes better through modelling
• 23/148 Lived experience recovery organisations
• 23/149 Faith-based groups and the impacts on health and health inequalities

Stage 1 deadline: 1pm on 23 April 2024

webinar to support applications: Tuesday 6 February 2024, 10:15 to 11:30am

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Medical Research Council (MRC)

Neurosciences and mental health research: responsive mode: research grant         
Apply for funding to support research projects focused on neurosciences and mental health                                                                             

Deadline: 10 January 2024 4:00pm

Medical Research Council (MRC)

Neurosciences and mental health: responsive mode partnership
We are looking to fund new partnerships between diverse groups of researchers in neurosciences and mental health.

Deadline: 10 January 2024 4:00pm

Medical Research Council (MRC)  

Population and systems medicine: responsive mode research grant
Our remit includes population health and the impact of environmental factors including the social environment on health outcomes.
 

Deadline: 10 January 2024 4:00pm 

Medical Research Council (MRC)  

Pre-announcement: Applied global health partnership: stage one
Apply for funding to support a partnership to enable research that will address global health challenges and inequities. Our remit includes applied research that will lead to tangible change in health policy and practice in the near future by developing practical, impact focused research.

Deadline: 13 February 2024 4:00pm

Medical Research Council (MRC)

MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round two: outline application
Apply for Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges.

Deadline: 7 February 2024 4:00pm

UKRI

Develop interdisciplinary research proposals to tackle epidemic threats
Apply for seed funding to build interdisciplinary teams and develop research ideas to tackle epidemic diseases of humans, animals and plants.
Networking event: 21 November 2023 1:30pm and 27 November 2023 9:30am

Closing date: 27 February 2024, 4:00pm

NIHR

Develop guidance for better research methods
Where multiple methodologies are available, it can be difficult to understand when, where or how each methodology should be best applied. This funding opportunity will support the development of guidance in priority areas of methodological uncertainty, with the aim of catalysing uptake of improved research methods.

Opening date: 17 April 2024 

Deadline: 12 June 2024 4:00pm

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

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NIHR Public Health Research (PHR)

23/124 Continuing areas of research interest to the PHR Programme
The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for these topics.

Deadline: 12 December 2023, 1pm

NIHR

23/110 Health Technology Assessment Programme researcher-led (primary research)
The HTA Programme aims to commission high-quality, well-designed research which will be carried out by effective and efficient research teams, providing findings which meet the needs of NHS and Social Care managers and leaders.

Deadline: 3 January 2024, 1pm

NIHR

23/112 NIHR NICE Rolling Call (HTA Programme)
Proposals must be within the remit of the HTA Programme and the primary outcome measure must be health related. This call is also open in the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME), Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) and Public Health Research (PHR) programmes for proposals which fall within the remit of those programmes - applicants should apply directly to the relevant programme.

Deadline: 3 January 2024. 1pm

NIHR

23/113 NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships Rolling Call (HTA Programme)The NIHR are looking to receive applications for research studies addressing JLA PSPs' research priorities, rather than to conduct a PSP itself.

Deadline: 3 January 2024. 1pm

The Royal Society

Royal Society Career Development Fellowships
Funding opportunity for STEM researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. Research must be within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics (see the full list here).

Funder Deadline: 24 January 2024

NIHR

PRP (38-01-01) Social Care Policy Research Initiative
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Programme (PRP) invites applications for research projects to inform adult social care policy decisions and build the evidence base for policy making.

Deadline: 13 February 2024, 1pm

NIHR - Public Health Research

23/86 Reducing health inequalities related to ethnicity by influencing the wider determinants of health
The PHR Programme wishes to fund a number of research studies on the topic of health inequalities related to ethnicity in the UK. It is recognised that this topic is broad in scope, multifaceted, and involves complex issues including those of intersectionality. It is not possible to cover all aspects of this topic in one research call, and this commissioning brief is therefore one of several that are planned.

Deadline: 12 December 2023, 1pm

NIHR - Public Health Research

23/84 Health and health inequality impacts of voucher and benefit uptake
The PHR Programme is predominantly interested in interventions operating at a population/group level rather than at an individual level, and which should address health inequalities and the wider determinants of health. The PHR Programme recognises that interventions are likely to impact different (sub)populations in different ways and encourages researchers to explore such inequalities of impact in their study design.

Deadline: 12 December 2023, 1pm

NIHR - Rapid Funding Scheme

Public Health Research Programme Rapid Funding Scheme
The 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.

Deadline: December 2023

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