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Connecting Culture Fund

Apply for funding to enhance research culture at your BBSRC strategically funded institute. This is an invitation-only funding opportunity and one or more of our institutes must lead or co-lead the application, but other eligible UK based research organisations are encouraged to be involved as project partners.

Large Grant full applications: November 2026 (invite only)

You can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful outline application.

Apply for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research.

A guide for the commercialisation of Creative Industries Research

Apply for funding to transform the commercialisation of research in the creative industries, working collaboratively to address barriers to commercialisation and develop a new sector specific commercialisation guide.

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

PATT travel grants for competitively awarded observation time 2026

You can apply for travel and subsistence in support of competitively awarded science observation time at astronomy facilities available to the UK research community.

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

Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative

Apply for funding to collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative.

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

UKRI Translation: MRC Impact Acceleration Awards

Apply to the MRC Impact Acceleration Award to address a single, high-risk development step and generate key data to de-risk a new medicine, medical device, diagnostic or other medical product.

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

UKRI translation: MRC proof of concept: stage two

This funding opportunity was previously titled ‘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.

Doctoral focal award plus: innovating in data-driven research

We are commissioning one doctoral focal award plus to develop a cadre of social scientists from doctoral studentships and across career stages with the skills needed to use data-driven research approaches in innovative ways.

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

UKRI Translation: MRC Proof of Concept: stage one

This funding opportunity was previously titled ‘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 Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.

Daphne Jackson Trust fellowship

UKRI invest in Daphne Jackson Trust fellowships. These fellowships are for researchers and research technical professionals looking to return to a research career after a break of two or more years for family, health or caring reasons.

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