This page provides information about selected funding opportunities. Click here for information about funding organisations in the UK with more comprehensive listings of opportunities.
New calls added in March
Organisation | Details | Date |
Mental Health Research UK | PhD Scholarship Competition 2025 The two scholarships which will be funded are:
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internal deadline: 27th March 2024 |
The Institution of Engineering and Technology | IET Postgraduate Research Awards The Institution of Engineering and Technology invites applications for its postgraduate prize. This supports research work leading to the award of a doctoral degree, with a preference for electrical, electronic or manufacturing engineering. |
Funder deadline: 4 April 2024 |
Wellcome Trust | Career development awards This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. |
Funder deadline: 11 April 2024 |
MRC |
MRC Career Development Award
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Call closes every April and September. Next deadline 17th April |
MRC |
There is no limit on the amount of funding you can apply for.
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Closing date: 17 April 2024 4:00pm |
MRC |
There is no limit on the amount of funding you can apply for. |
Closing date: 17 April 2024 4:00pm |
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) |
Fellowships must be held at a research organisation that is part of a Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) and aligned to an accredited subject area. Your application can be from a single discipline or a combination of disciplines, but social sciences must make up at least 50% of your fellowship activities.
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Closing date: 16 May 2024 4:00pm UK time |
UKRI |
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Closing date: 18 June 2024 4:00pm UK time |
NIHR | Coordinated Call: NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) Projects Call 2
NIHR invites proposals to support applied research to strengthen health policy and health systems for the benefit of people in Official Development Assistance (ODA) eligible countries on the DAC list, with awards available from £250,000 up to £800,000 for up to 3 years in duration. Global health policy and systems research applications can include, but are not limited to, aspects of leadership and governance, financing, health workforce, information systems, quality of care and health service delivery, health services, and impacts of broader determinants of health. To take part in the internal coordination process, please complete the online form by 18th April. If you are asked to log-in, please use your Raven details. Please note, this online form cannot be saved and returned to. If you have any queries, please contact researchstrategy@admin.cam.ac.uk |
internal deadline: 18th April 2024 Funder deadline: 19th June 2024 |
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, the next one is 15th May 2024 |
Wellcome Trust | Wellcome Trust Early Career Award This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to lead their own independent research programme. |
Three times a year - Upcoming deadlines in May and October 2024 |
MRC | Closing date: 13 June 2024 4:00pm UK time | |
co-funded by MRC and NIHR. | Pre-announcement: Enhancing biomedical and health related data and digital platform resources Funding for data and digital platform resources that will support, manage, link, share and access data at scale for biomedical, health and care research. |
Opening: 9 April 2024 9:00am UK time Webinar: 25 April 2024 12:30pm Closing: June 2024 |
EPSRC |
Each Network Plus must have ‘engineering at the heart’ and imaginatively use the plus element to develop insights and approaches to address relevant challenges within the TERC report whilst ensuring a level of interoperability and integration across the different levels of challenges. |
Closing date: 9 July 2024 4:00pm UK time |
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) |
Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward project in environmental research. We welcome:
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Closing date: 17 July 2024 4:00pm UK time |
NIHR |
24/13 Digital technology enabled interventions in Social Care |
Webinar: 21 May 2024, 12pm to 1.15pm.
deadline: 13:00 on 24 July 2024 |
NIHR |
24/28 Parenting Interventions
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webinar: Wed 5 June 2024, 1:15 - 2:30pm. Stage one deadline: 1pm on 9 August 2024 |
NIHR |
24/29 The health of children and young people in contact with the criminal justice system
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webinar: Wed 5 June 2024, 1:15 - 2:30pm. Stage one deadline: 1pm on 9 August 2024 |
EPSRC |
We are looking to build capacity and bring together new communities across engineering and physical sciences and health and care, to tackle challenges in dementia research. |
Opening: 16 May 2024 Closing: 10 September 2024 4:00pm UK time |
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Outline closing date: 16 May 2024 4:00pm Full stage opening: 16 July 2024 9:00am Full stage closing: 24 September 2024 4:00pm |
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The Royal Society |
Pre-announcement – Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships The programme will provide the most talented mid-career researchers with the time and freedom to focus on their research, providing long-term, stable funding to allow them to tackle difficult and intractable problems. |
Opens: 14th August 2024 Funder deadline: 2nd October 2024 |
NIHR |
Public Health Research Programme Rapid Funding Scheme 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. |
Closes: 27 December 2024 |
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Pre-announcement: Health Technologies Connectivity Awards |
Opening date: May 2024 Webinar: TBC Closing date: TBC |
Calls added in January
Organisation | Details | Date |
Wellcome Trust | Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change visible across a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes in order to drive urgent climate policy and practice change at scale. This scheme will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects, combining evidence generation with communications and/or public engagement. |
Full application deadline: 3 April 2024 |
Wellcome Trust |
Wellcome Career Development Awards |
Deadline: 11 April 2024, 17:00 BST |
Wellcome Trust |
Wellcome Discovery Awards |
Deadline: 16 April 2024, 17:00 BST |
NIHR |
23/170 EME Platform studies to efficiently evaluate the efficacy of multiple interventions |
Deadline: 23 April 2024 1pm |
NIHR |
23/175 Public Health Programme researcher-led |
Deadline: 23 April 2024 1pm |
NIHR |
23/177 NIHR NICE Rolling Call (PHR Programme) |
Deadline: 23 April 2024 1pm |
Medical Research Council (MRC) |
Pre-announcement: African Research Leaders Researchers should be supported by an enthusiastic local research environment and by a UK-based partner as part of a partnership between the African and UK institutions. |
Closing date: 24 April 2024 4:00pm UK time |
NIHR |
24/4 NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships Rolling Call (HTA Programme) |
Deadline: 1 May 2024 1pm |
NIHR |
24/3 NIHR NICE Rolling Call (HTA Programme) |
Deadline: 1 May 2024 1pm |
NIHR |
24/2 Health Technology Assessment Programme Researcher-led (evidence synthesis) |
Deadline: 1 May 2024 1pm |
NIHR |
24/1 Health Technology Assessment Programme Researcher-led (primary research) |
Deadline: 1 May 2024 1pm |
Medical Research Council (MRC) |
The platform will be led by a multi-organisational and multi-disciplinary consortium, including at least one industry partner.
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Closing date: 9 May 2024 4:00pm UK time |
EPSRC |
Closing date: 21 May 2024 4:00pm UK time |
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UKRI |
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Closing date: 18 June 2024 4:00pm UK time |
Calls added in December
Organisation | Details | Date |
EPSRC | Closing date: 16 April 2024 4:00pm UK time | |
EPSRC |
Pre-announcement: EPSRC Quantum Technologies Career Acceleration Fellowships
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Opening date: TBC Closing date: TBC |
EPSRC |
EPSRC network grant: Nov 2023: responsive mode |
Open - no closing date |
Calls added in November
Organisation | Details | Date |
NIHR |
The Public Health Research Programme (PHR) is accepting Stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for these topics:
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Stage 1 deadline: 1pm on 23 April 2024 |
Calls added in October
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Details |
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NIHR |
Develop guidance for better research methods |
Opening date: 17 April 2024 Deadline: 12 June 2024 4:00pm |
BBSRC |
BBSRC standard research grant |
Open - no closing date |
Ongoing calls:
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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 |