This page provides information about selected funding opportunities. Click here for information about funding organisations in the UK with more comprehensive listings of opportunities.
Calls added in April
Organisation | Details | Date |
Calls added in March
Organisation | Details | Date |
MRC |
MRC Career Development Award
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Call closes every April and September. Next deadline 17th April |
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 |
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 October
Organisation |
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 |
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 |