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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.

Opening up the Environment 2025

Apply for funding to:

  • explore the potential to increase the diversity of representation in NERC science
  • generate partnerships that identify, include and showcase a broader range of people in NERC science

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

NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2024

Apply for funding to further your career through an independent research fellowship.

You must:

  • be an early career researcher
  • hold a PhD qualification or expect to submit your thesis before the fellowship interview
  • be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding

Environmental sciences: Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund 2025

Apply for funding to create new and sustainable global partnerships in environmental science.

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

The inclusion of one of more international project partners is mandatory.

Doctoral Focal award in Engineering Biology

Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in engineering biology. This funding opportunity will train the next generation of researchers in cutting-edge technologies applicable to a diverse range of careers. Applications should be led by organisations eligible for UKRI funding.

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

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.

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.

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

Pushing the frontiers of environmental research: July 2025

Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research.

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

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