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UKRI Data for Metascience

Apply for funding to address multi-faceted metascience questions related to R&D funding and inform R&D policymaking using UKRI data.

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

You must be invited to apply for this funding opportunity.

We expect to fund up to £1 million at 80% full economic cost.

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.

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.

2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme

Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills.

You are not eligible to apply if you hold or have held any post or position at lecturer level (or equivalent). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.

Innovate UK innovation loans future economy: Round 20

UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.

Japan-UK Joint call for Quantum Technologies for Innovation

Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into Quantum Technologies.

UK applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
Japanese applicants must be eligible for JST funding.

Early Life Cohort longitudinal study

Apply for funding to lead the Early Life Cohort (ELC) on behalf of the broader research community. The ELC offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to generate new research and policy insights on how the early and ongoing life experiences of children born in the 2020s and growing up in the UK shape their future outcomes.

This is an invite only funding opportunity, and the project lead must be the agreed person from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies to apply.

Centre-UB Early Career Researcher Fellowships 2025

The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) are now inviting applications for a second cohort of fellows, expected to start in October 2025.

Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT digital cognitive dementia assessments

Organisations can apply for a single award of up to £600,000, inclusive of VAT. To implement and assess a dementia based digital cognitive assessment to be evaluated as part of the Real-world dementia outcomes (READ-OUT) study being managed by the University of Oxford.

2025 to 2026 strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grants: stage one

Apply for funding to undertake large team-based fundamental bioscience research projects which push the frontiers of human knowledge.

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

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