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UKRI policy fellowships 2025

Spend 18 months as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) core policy fellow, Natural Hazards and Resilience policy fellow or What Works Innovation fellow to inform policy to address pressing national and global challenges.

You must:

  • be based at a UK based organisation eligible for UKRI funding
  • have a PhD or equivalent experience
  • be a researcher in an eligible discipline in accordance with the specific position applied for
Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
UK Research and Innovation, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Fellowship
Award range:
£180,000 - £280,000
Publication date:
14 April 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

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.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£26,000,000
Maximum award:
£950,000
Publication date:
31 January 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one

Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions.

You must be employed at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£30,000,000
Publication date:
20 March 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Applied global health partnership: stage two

Apply for funding to support a new research partnership to enable the development and delivery of novel research that will address global health challenges and inequities.

You must be invited to apply for stage two of this funding.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
Funding type:
Grant
Award range:
£150,000 - £1,000,000
Publication date:
3 April 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Applied global health research: stage two

Apply for funding to support applied research that will address global health challenges and inequities.

You must be invited to apply for stage two of this funding opportunity.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
Funding type:
Grant
Award range:
£150,000 - £2,000,000
Publication date:
9 April 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Critical mass programmes to drive a sustainable future (invitation only)

Full stage proposals for critical-mass transdisciplinary research programs to drive the transition to sustainable technologies and operations, clean energy, circular materials or interseasonal energy storage, in the UK’s mid-to-long term future.
You must be invited to apply to this full stage.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£22,725,000
Award range:
£3,000,000 - £5,718,750
Publication date:
17 April 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Sandpit: moving respiratory health diagnosis into the 21st century invite only

Apply for funding to develop transformative diagnostic and monitoring approaches to respiratory disease in community healthcare settings.

You must draw on engineering and physical sciences principles and research.

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£4,000,000
Publication date:
21 May 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Expression of interest: ATI Programme strategic batch, Jul 2025

The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Business and Trade, Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£975,000,000
Publication date:
8 July 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Research to advance UK recycling capabilities: full stage

This is the second stage of this funding opportunity. You may only submit a full proposal if you have been invited by EPSRC.

Apply for funding for research to accelerate UK recycling capabilities.

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Co-funders:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£13,000,000
Maximum award:
£1,700,000
Publication date:
28 May 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

ADOPT facilitator support grant: round two

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500 to engage an external project facilitator to support the development of a full ADOPT grant application.

This is an Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) grant.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£100,000
Publication date:
13 June 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

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