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Strategic equipment grant

You can apply for funding for cutting-edge equipment that improves your ability to carry out research in any area funded by EPSRC. We fund research into chemistry, engineering, information and communication technologies, materials, mathematical sciences and physics.

BBSRC standard research grant

You can apply for research grants at any time in any area within the remit of BBSRC. BBSRC funds research in plants, microbes, animals (including humans), and the tools and technology underpinning biological research from the level of molecules and cells, to tissues, whole organisms, populations and landscapes.

AHRC research networking scheme

The research networking scheme supports the exchange of ideas between researchers and stakeholders by funding the costs of workshops, seminars or other networking activities, covering up to £30,000 for a period of up to two years, with an additional £15,000 for international costs.

Turing Artificial Intelligence World-Leading Researcher Fellowships

This is invitation only.

Successful outline applicants are invited to submit their full proposals.

This will invest in the retention and international recruitment of a small number of world-leading AI researchers. This will enable the building of centres of excellence in key areas of AI research.

UKRI Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub

UKRI invites a full proposal for an Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub. Up to £3.27 million (at 80% FEC) is available to support up to one hub for up to 45 months from 1 January 2021. An application will only be accepted from the successful UKRI Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Coordinators.

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.

Innovation Scholars: Data Science Training in Health and Bioscience

Innovative training programmes to upskill health and bioscience researchers in data management and analysis.

Providing flexible training for two scenarios:

  • upskilling from different starting levels and career stages
  • enabling researchers to develop skills in new emerging areas of importance.

Strategic capital 2020

We aim to invest in UK capital infrastructure that will deliver significant enhancements to research capacity in the environmental sciences.

If you are based at an eligible research organisation, you can procure equipment or develop built infrastructure that creates a new research capability.

Bioinformatics and biological resources fund: Nov 20

Funding to facilitate the establishment, maintenance and enhancement of high-quality bioinformatics and biological resources to support the UK bioscience research community.

20ALERT: Mid-range equipment funding

We encourage applications for:

  • widely used, mid-range equipment used in the areas of our remit
  • the use of emerging advanced research technology or utilise equipment in novel applications.

Typically for groups of researchers or instrumentation to that can be used collaboratively.

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