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AHRC responsive mode: catalyst awards

AHRC awards 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 responsive mode: Curiosity Award

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.

Small molecule high throughput screen using AstraZeneca facilities

Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots.

Two funding opportunities per year with changing highlights. This funding opportunity will have a highlight on new targets related to pain or women’s health (including conditions related to metabolic disorders).

Mathematical sciences postdoctoral fellowship

These are personal, career development focused awards for the mathematical sciences.

You must have either:

  • a PhD
  • more than four years’ experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship

Candidates with more research experience may prefer to apply for our open fellowship.

EPSRC Programme grant full proposal

Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading research groups addressing significant major research challenges.

This funding opportunity is only for invited applicants.

We will award 80% of the full economic costs (FEC) of the project.

Statements of Need in Research Infrastructure

EPSRC wishes to understand the scale, nature, and scientific value of potential large-scale infrastructure investments to maintain the UK as a leading scientific nation. Representatives of relevant scientific communities are invited to submit statements of need according to the assessment criteria.

Collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities

Apply for a collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities. These awards enable UK non-higher education institutions (non-HEI), individual or consortia, to support high-quality doctoral training.

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’.

BBSRC standard research grant: 2025 round 3: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding for a research grant in any area within the remit of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

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

BBSRC new investigator award: 2025 round 3: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding for a research grant in any area within the remit of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

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

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