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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.

Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10

Apply for funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit. You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:

  • looking to establish or transition to independence
  • developing your own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting

P2R: increasing UK policymaker engagement with research

Apply for funding to develop and expand UK-wide policy to research (P2R) infrastructure facilitating direct connections between public and civil servants and research organisations.

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

Pre-announcement: Proof of Concept

Apply for proof of concept funding to support the commercialisation of research and the development of new products, processes or services.

Applications from across all disciplines and research councils’ remits are welcomed.

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

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.

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