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Centre for doctoral training in sustainable UK marine management

Apply for funding to deliver a new centre for doctoral training (CDT) in sustainable management of UK marine resources.

You can apply if you are employed by an organisation eligible for NERC funding.

Organisations that are not eligible for funding may act as collaborative partners.

Provide a scanning transmission electron microscopy national facility

Apply for funding to provide a national research facility in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM).

You must be a researcher at a UK organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

Provide an X-ray crystallography national facility

Apply for support to provide a national research facility in X-ray crystallography.

You must be a researcher at a UK organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

Multimodal research across scales to understand human disease

Apply for funding to support the development of a new research collaboration to expand understanding of human disease or dysfunction.

Your proposed study must integrate different modes and scales of biomedical research.

You must be eligible for MRC funding.

Place-based research programme director

Apply for funding to become a programme director to help inform and shape AHRC’s approach to place-based research.

The role will start in October 2021 and last 18 months.

Arts-based public engagement with climate change

Apply for funding for a new collaborative public engagement partnership. Your partnership will engage members of the public with climate change research and related societal issues.

Your team must include at least:

  • an environmental science researcher within NERC’s remit
  • an artist or creative
  • a person representing a UK community organisation or a public-facing group.

Scoping law and social justice research priorities

Apply for funding to identify potential research priorities in law and social justice. Your report will inform the future AHRC approach to the law and legal studies disciplines.

You must be eligible for AHRC funding.

Your project must focus on:

  • governance
  • citizenship and representation
  • transitional justice
  • cultures of exclusion.

MRC clinical research training fellowship: Sep 2021

You can get funding for a research project across any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health. You can apply for:

  • predoctoral fellowships – if you are a clinician wanting to undertake a PhD or other higher research degree
  • postdoctoral fellowships – if you were awarded a PhD some time ago but have not been active in research since, we can help you to reacquire research skills.

We expect you to be undertaking your specialty training. You can apply for a fellowship lasting between two and four years but they usually last for three. Funding will cover your salary and related expenses.

MRC clinician scientist fellowship: Sep 2021

This award can help you become an independent investigator through a programme of research and training lasting up to five years. We will provide your salary plus some support costs.

To apply, you must have:

  • research plans within MRC’s remit which do not overlap with those of your current group leader or proposed sponsor
  • a track record of challenging, original and productive research across past appointments, and an upward trajectory
  • identified opportunities for developing and progressing in your career

You must have a higher research degree in medicine or another clinical area.

Developing engineering biology breakthrough ideas

Apply for funding to develop breakthrough ideas in engineering biology.

Your project must focus on one of the following themes from the National Engineering Biology Programme:

  • bio-inspired design
  • novel materials
  • bioengineered cells and systems.

You must be of lecturer level or above and based at an eligible research organisation.

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