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ESRC applicant-led: grow awards

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.

ESRC applicant-led: explore awards

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.

Wearables and observables: Understanding home learning environment

Apply for funding to develop, test and validate innovative approaches for measuring and understanding children’s home learning environments and their influence on learning, development, school readiness and educational outcomes. Open to UKRI-eligible UK research organisations.

Future data services: transforming discovery and access (invite only)

Apply for funding to transform discovery and access to data provided by ESRC’s social science data service infrastructures.

You must be invited to apply for this funding opportunity You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.

Data for metascience sandpit 2027

Apply to attend a five-day interactive sandpit to develop novel projects that can address multi-faceted metascience questions related to research and development policy and funding.

You will complete an expression of interest form to apply for the sandpit.

We expect to fund up to £2 million at 80% full economic cost (FEC).

Advancing solutions for critical mineral production and recycling

Apply for funding for pump-priming research to explore, test and validate disruptive and transformative solutions for critical mineral extraction, processing, recovery, reprocessing, recycling or re-mining.

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

Experimental medicine to define mechanisms of gambling disorder: stage one

Apply for funding for academically led experimental medicine studies in humans that deepen understanding of the causal biological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying the effects of gambling activities, products and interventions on gambling disorder.

Pre-announcement: Future Data Services: Joining up the data service workforce

Apply for Future Data Services funding to bring together communities of practitioners to exchange knowledge, improve working practices and deliver better data services for researchers.

What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK

Apply for funding to establish and lead a What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK to transform how the UK adapts to climate change.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Economic and Social Research (ESRC) funding.

Gambling harms research grants

Apply for funding that deepens understanding or supports solutions for the prevention and treatment of gambling-related harms.

To lead an application, you must be based at a research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

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