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Research skills leadership hub: full (Invite only)

Invited teams can apply for funding to deliver a new strategic leadership hub that supports the development and delivery of research skills training and capacity building provision in the social sciences.

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

Pre-announcement: 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 metascientific, ethical, epistemic, and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond.

Scottish Election Study 2026 (invite only)

This is an invite only opportunity for funding to run the Scottish Election Study for the 2026 devolved election.

Welsh Election Study 2026

Apply for funding to run the Welsh Election Study for the 2026 devolved election.

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

UKRI DRI: championing knowledge exchange for UK computational science (invite only)

Apply for funding to lead and coordinate a knowledge exchange and communications networkplus for UK large scale compute.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

UKRI DRI: digital research infrastructure skills hubs for accelerated compute (invite only)

Apply for funding to develop a national hub for digital research technology professionals for accelerated and large-scale compute technologies.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

UKRI Creating Opportunities Evaluation Development follow-on fund: invite only

Apply for follow-on funding to enhance or expand on your existing Evaluation Development Fund award (EDF), generating or maximising causal evidence on spreading opportunities and reducing disparities for people and places across the UK.

Pre-announcement: UKRI Creating opportunities: rethinking economic (in)activity

Apply for funding to identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK.

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

International Fellowships for PhD and Early Career Researchers 2025

Apply to undertake a funded fellowship at an international cultural institution.

You must be either:

  • a PhD student currently funded by AHRC (or ESRC for Library of Congress only)
  • an early career researcher based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding

ESRC postdoctoral fellowships

Apply for a postdoctoral fellowship to develop your career by consolidating your PhD through developing publications, your networks and your research and professional skills.

Fellowships must be held at a research organisation that is part of a Doctoral Training Partnership.

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