Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

ESRC is the UK’s largest funder of economic, social, behavioural and human data science.

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News

9 September 2021

Data research initiative secures £90m funding extension

24 August 2021

New review of evidence linking the environment and mental health

18 August 2021

UKRI councils are moving to ukri.org

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Funding opportunities

Advancing adolescent mental health and wellbeing research

Apply for funding to help improve research in the field of ‘adolescence, mental health and the developing mind’ through:

  • methodological innovation
  • capability building.

You can be researcher at any career stage who is:

  • within the remit of AHRC, ESRC or MRC
  • based in the UK
  • from a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£8,000,000
Award range:
£125,000 - £1,250,000
Publication date:
22 September 2021
Opening date:
22 September 2021
Closing date:

Build a network to research sustainable agri-food for net zero

Apply for funding to develop a research network that will focus on improving the sustainability of the agri-food system.

You must be:

  • based at an eligible UK-based organisation
  • working in a science discipline.

Co-investigators can be from any discipline.

Your network is expected to:

  • focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • build interdisciplinary partnerships
  • involve stakeholders
  • develop future research plans.
Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK Research and Innovation
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£4,375,000
Publication date:
21 September 2021
Opening date:
20 September 2021
Closing date:

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Swindon,
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Changes to ESRC's website

Following the move of ESRC funding opportunities and news to the UKRI website, this summer we are starting to move more of ESRC’s web content to the new integrated site.

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