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Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: challenge awards

Apply for funding to bring people, expertise and ideas together in ambitious, larger-scale programmes. Challenge awards tackle major research, economic and societal challenges, generating impactful knowledge and innovation.

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

Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: explore awards

Apply for funding to advance knowledge through ambitious, curiosity-driven social science. Explore awards support individuals or small teams to pursue bold, novel ideas within ESRC’s remit that advance knowledge.

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

Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: grow awards

Apply for funding to make a step-change in your career. Grow awards support individual researchers at key career points to develop capabilities or pivot direction, strengthening the UK’s social science research base.

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

Pre-announcement: NMIP sandpit: Digital materials for accelerated innovation

Apply to attend a three to five-day sandpit to develop high-impact projects that address the challenges and opportunities of integrating digital approaches to accelerate the translation of materials research.

Attendance at the sandpit does not guarantee UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

AHRC Standard research grant: applicant-led mode

Apply for AHRC standard research grant funding to support well-defined collaborative projects across the arts and humanities, in areas covered by our remit.

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

AHRC Catalyst Awards: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding to support researchers without prior experience of leading a significant research project to accelerate their trajectory as independent researchers, to unlock their potential and build leadership and convenor experience.

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

AHRC Collaborate with researchers in Luxembourg: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in Luxembourg.

Submit a collaborative research grant application within the remit of AHRC and Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR).

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

Pushing the frontiers of environmental research

Apply for funding to pursue an adventurous, ambitious curiosity-driven project in environmental research.

You must be:

  • based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding
  • in a role that meets the individual eligibility requirements

AHRC Working with Brazilian researchers: Applicant-led mode

Apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

Submit a collaborative research grant application within the remit of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

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

AHRC Curiosity Award: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding for flexible awards to fund fundamental research that leads to new research agendas, networking activity and idea generation, which enables the development of further research opportunities and new research agendas.

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

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