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Mathematical sciences postdoctoral fellowship

These are personal, career development focused awards for the mathematical sciences.

You must have either:

  • a PhD
  • more than four years’ experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship

Candidates with more research experience may prefer to apply for our open fellowship.

Strategic infrastructure for engineering and physical sciences: Feb 2025

Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure that will improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC.

This funding opportunity is for invited applicants only.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.

Japan-UK Joint call for Quantum Technologies for Innovation

Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into Quantum Technologies.

UK applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
Japanese applicants must be eligible for JST funding.

UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what epistemic, metascientific, ethical and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond.

ERA-NET NEURON interdisciplinary approaches to the neuroscience of pain

Apply for funding as part of a transnational consortium of three to five partners to improve knowledge of the neuroscience of pain using interdisciplinary approaches. This is an ERA-NET NEURON Joint Transnational Call. The Medical Research Council (MRC) are one of 19 organisations offering funding through the initiative.

Pre-announcement: Opening up the Environment 2026

Apply for funding to deliver purposeful activities to increase the diversity of the UK environmental science community.

You can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful Opening up the Environment 2025 application.

Research to advance UK recycling capabilities

Apply for funding for research to accelerate UK recycling capabilities. Projects will progress the development of more energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable recycling technologies and systems.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.

Small molecule high throughput screen using AstraZeneca facilities

Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots.

Two funding opportunities per year with changing highlights. This funding opportunity will have a highlight on new targets related to pain or women’s health (including conditions related to metabolic disorders).

Expression of interest: ATI programme strategic batch, Feb 2025

The ATI programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.

2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme

Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills.

You are not eligible to apply if you hold or have held any post or position at lecturer level (or equivalent). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.

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