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Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity

Apply for funding to recruit and train doctoral students through a doctoral focal award which seeks to unlock linguistic and cultural expertise. These awards will provide opportunities through partnership between higher education institutions (HEI) and non-HEI partners.

By invitation only.

UK Obesity Research Institute: full application

Apply for funding to establish a UK Obesity Research Institute, undertaking world-leading research into the mechanistic biomedical drivers of obesity and develop targeted interventions to prevent and treat obesity and its health consequences.

Applications must be led by a UK-based research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

Purchase mid-range equipment for biomedical research: MRC Equip

Funding opportunity for mid-range capital equipment that will enable and enhance research across MRC’s scientific areas.

You must be employed at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding.

Future computing paradigms Network Plus

Opportunity to build a multidisciplinary Network Plus that will initiate UK collaboration in future computing paradigms and provide evidence-based recommendations for UKRI and government, shaping national research priorities.

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

Design Generators round two

Apply for funding to combine design-led interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to make positive contributions to the green transition.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.

Japan-UK Joint call for collaborations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies

Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into Advanced Connectivity Technologies.

UK applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.

Japanese applicants must be eligible for NICT funding.

Optical wireless communications research and testing facility

Apply for funding to establish optical wireless communications research and testing facility.

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

EPSRC Strategic Infrastructure 2026 (invite only)

Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure that will improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC.

This funding opportunity is for invited applicants only.

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

UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027

Apply for UKRI impact acceleration accounts (IAAs) for institutional‑level, flexible, early-stage funding that helps organisations accelerate research impact into real world benefits.

This funding opportunity harmonises IAA programmes across the following research councils:

  • AHRC
  • EPSRC
  • MRC
  • STFC

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