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Early career research fellowships scheme coordination and cohort support (invite only)

Apply for funding through an invitation only funding opportunity to lead cohort coordination and development for AHRC’s early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions.

You must be based at UK Independent Research Organisation (IRO) eligible for AHRC funding.

Large grant outlines: February 2026

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

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

Experimental medicine stage one

Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease.

Your application must include an intervention in humans.

You must be a researcher based at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding. Researchers transitioning to independence may be eligible to apply as a ‘new investigator’.

MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round four: outline application

Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges.

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

Pre-announcement: ADR UK Research Fellowships 2025

Apply for Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) Research Fellowship funding, to use ADR England flagship data for research. Fellowships can be up to 18 months in duration and cost a maximum of £200,000 (100% FEC).

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

Farming Innovation Programme: feasibility round 4

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4.8 million for feasibility projects. This funding is from the industry led R&D Partnerships Fund, part of the Farming Innovation Programme.

Green ERA-Hub: biomass production and utilisation (pre-proposal)

This international multilateral opportunity will support research into sustainable production and utilisation of biomass.

Consortia must include at least three eligible partners from three different funding countries. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.

Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one

Secure funding to deliver new world-leading data science and AI approaches to tackle critical environmental challenges. Interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond environmental science is encouraged to maximise impact.

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

Network Plus: antifungal resistance in the environment

Apply for funding to develop a Network Plus to investigate how antifungal resistance emerges and spreads in the environment through healthcare, agriculture, and household mould-preventative product use.

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

Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund: round five discovery competition four

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative discovery phase projects that meet the round five challenges.

This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.

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