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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.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Fellowship
Publication date:
24 September 2020
Opening date:
Closing date:

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.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Fellowship
Publication date:
24 September 2020
Opening date:
Closing date:

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.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,500,000
Maximum award:
£125,000
Publication date:
1 July 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Global cooperation feasibility studies

UK registered small or medium-sized enterprise businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million to carry out international feasibility studies.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,500,000
Publication date:
25 August 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

UK and South Korea biomedical and health researcher exchange

Apply for funding to support the movement of biomedical and health researchers between the UK and South Korea. Funding comes from the UK-Korea Researcher Mobility Scheme.

You must be applying on behalf of an existing research partnership between the two countries.

UK applicants must have an active UKRI grant, awarded through a competitive process.

Korean applicants must be eligible for funding from NRF or MSIT.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
Korean Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£200,000
Maximum award:
£66,666
Publication date:
21 July 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Collaborating for healthy, resilient and sustainable agricultural soils

Apply to research agricultural soils.

You can apply if you are a researcher based at an eligible organisation.

You must work with at least two other researchers. They must be from one of the eligible countries.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Co-funders:
European and international funders through the European Joint Programme on Soil (EJP SOIL)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,000,000
Award range:
£62,500 - £625,000
Publication date:
7 May 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Interdisciplinary environmental social science leadership team

Apply for funding to establish a team of social scientists and interdisciplinary experts.

Your team will provide leadership for climate and environmental social science research.

To lead a team, you must be based at a UK organisation eligible for UKRI funding

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£6,250,000
Publication date:
15 June 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

ISCF smart sustainable plastic packaging: business-led research and development

UK-registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7 million for research and development projects with the potential to significantly impact the 2025 UK Plastic Pact targets.

This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£7,000,000
Publication date:
26 May 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Experimental medicine grants: Sep 2021

Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease. Your proposal must include an experimental intervention or challenge in humans.

You must be based at an eligible UK research organisation. In addition to our usual eligibility criteria, you can apply if you hold a fellowship or lectureship.

This is an ongoing scheme with rounds open every six months.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£10,000,000
Publication date:
9 February 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

ESRC policy fellowships 2021

Apply to spend up to 18 months collaborating with a UK or devolved government host organisation.

You will:

  • co-design research with the host organisation to inform policy on a priority policy area
  • help improve the exchange of knowledge between policy and academic institutions.

Depending on the fellowship, you can be either a researcher in the economic and social sciences or in the arts and humanities.

You must:

  • be based at an organisation eligible for UKRI funding
  • have a PhD or equivalent experience.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Co-funders:
Government host organisations
Funding type:
Fellowship
Maximum award:
£135,000
Publication date:
10 June 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

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