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Digital Economy: Sustainable Digital Society

We are investing up to £5 million (at 80% full economic cost) of EPSRC funding to support around six sociotechnical, interdisciplinary, co-created, novel research projects.

The projects should explore user-focused, transformational digital technologies and services to achieve a sustainable digital society.

The Digital Economy Theme welcomes multidisciplinary research that spans the whole of the remit of UK Research and Innovation. The research must be at least 50% within EPSRC’s remit to qualify for funding.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
30 July 2020
Opening date:
Closing date:

MRC clinical research training fellowships: Jan 2021

You can get funding to support predoctoral and postdoctoral research proposals across any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health. You can apply for a fellowship lasting between two and four years but they usually last for three. The funding will cover your salary and related expenses.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Fellowship
Publication date:
20 September 2020
Opening date:
Closing date:

Research into inclusive ageing

Apply for research into inclusive ageing.

Your project must include a principal investigator based at an eligible research organisation.

Your project must be interdisciplinary and focus on both:

  • social and economic inequalities that affect people in later life
  • practical ways to improve inclusivity in later life.

Your project must address how earlier life experiences affect inequalities in later life.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£9,000,000
Award range:
£500,000 - £2,000,000
Publication date:
22 February 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Expression of interest: Automotive Transformation Fund round 11

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital-centric investment projects.

The project must help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,000,000,000
Publication date:
14 May 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Creative Industries Fund: fast start business growth pilot

UK-registered micro and small businesses in the creative sector can apply for a package of support to grow their business.

This package includes ongoing support from Innovate UK EDGE and funding of up to £25,000 for innovation projects.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,500,000
Maximum award:
£25,000
Publication date:
20 May 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Understanding remote approaches to qualitative health research

Apply for funding to improve the understanding, design and use of remote data capture within qualitative health research.

Your research must be designed to improve the research methods used by others.

The lead applicant must:

  • have a postgraduate degree
  • be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

This is a strategic focus for the June 2021 round of the ‘Better methods, better research’ programme.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£500,000
Publication date:
7 May 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Better methods, better research: Jun 2021

Researchers can apply for funding to improve the methods being used in wider biomedical and health research. The programme is jointly funded by MRC and the National Institute for Health Research, and the programme welcomes research that falls within the remit of either funder.

We will normally award up to £500,000 and support 80% of the full economic costs of your proposal.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
20 September 2020
Opening date:
Closing date:

Statement of community need: NERC scientific support and facilities

Tell us what you need from the next generation of NERC’s scientific support and facilities (S&F).

We want to hear about S&F ideas that are essential to the delivery of environmental science over the next five to 10 years.

This is not a funding opportunity. We will use your ideas to design future funding opportunities.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type:
Other
Publication date:
11 February 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Protecting citizens online complementary projects: outline stage

Apply for funding to research the needs of citizens online, help them control how their data is used and protect them from online harms.

Proposals must be submitted by a team of investigators from a mix of disciplines.

You can apply if you are based in the UK.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
UK Research and Innovation, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£11,000,000
Award:
£2,750,000
Publication date:
25 May 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Sustainable manufacturing

To apply for this opportunity, you must have been invited to submit a full proposal.

Apply for funding to research technologies and processes for sustainable manufacturing. This should focus on areas within EPSRC’s Manufacturing the Future theme.

You must be a UK resident based at an eligible research organisation. You can be at any career stage.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£10,000,000
Publication date:
25 February 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

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