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Apply for funding to make a step-change in your career. Grow awards support individual researchers at key career points to develop capabilities or pivot direction, strengthening the UK’s social science research base.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.
Apply for funding to advance knowledge through ambitious, curiosity-driven social science. Explore awards support individuals or small teams to pursue bold, novel ideas within ESRC’s remit that advance knowledge.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.
Apply for funding to bring people, expertise and ideas together in ambitious, larger-scale programmes. Challenge awards tackle major research, economic and societal challenges, generating impactful knowledge and innovation.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.
Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and innovative approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing by 2030.
The tools and approaches developed will access the voices of underrepresented communities, assess the impact of police activity, and identify what builds public trust and confidence.
Apply for funding to support research that can help develop new measurements of the return on investments in research and development (R&D).
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
Apply for funding to deliver innovative AI supported research using UKRI social science data.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding and have participated in the AI supported research using UKRI social science data sandpit held in Manchester on 23 to 24 June 2026.
Apply for funding for academically led experimental medicine studies in humans that deepen mechanistic understanding of the causal mechanisms underlying the effects of gambling activities, products and interventions in gambling disorder.
Apply for funding to deliver entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training.
Applications can be led by organisations with standard and non-standard eligibility. The non-standard eligibility process will need to be completed before an award is made.
An expression of interest is required by 21 September 2026 4:00pm UK time.
Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and innovative approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing by 2030.
The tools and approaches developed will access the voices of underrepresented communities, assess the impact of police activity, and identify what builds public trust and confidence.
We are commissioning one doctoral focal award plus to develop a cadre of social scientists from doctoral studentships and across career stages with the skills needed to use data-driven research approaches in innovative ways.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.
