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Clinician scientist fellowship: Jan 2022

Apply for funding to support your move to independent investigator. Your research can focus on any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health.

You must be a registered healthcare professional with a PhD.

You must be able to show:

  • evidence of career progression
  • clear plans to develop leadership in your own specialist area of research.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding type:
Fellowship
Publication date:
8 September 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

EoI: Automotive Transformation Fund: Round 16

Registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital-centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,000,000,000
Publication date:
1 November 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Develop basic technologies in sensing and imaging

Apply for funding to develop early-stage technologies in sensing and imaging.

You must be based at an eligible UK organisation. You must collaborate with organisations from other disciplines.

Your project must have two co-principal investigators. They must be from different research areas.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,500,000
Maximum award:
£225,000
Publication date:
2 November 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Enhance particle physics research: PPGP consolidated grants

Apply for funding to research particle physics theory and develop novel technologies.

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

You must either apply as a:

  • an individual or group of researchers from one institution
  • a consortium with groups from different institutions.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
14 December 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research

Apply for funding to collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research.

Your project can address any area of the arts and humanities.

You must be:

  • an arts and humanities researcher
  • based at a research organisation eligible to apply to AHRC
  • working with German partners eligible to apply to DFG.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Co-funders:
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£350,000
Publication date:
1 November 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Made smarter innovation: sustainable smart factory

UK registered businesses and organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for digital innovation projects that will improve the resource efficiency and energy efficiency of manufacturing processes in factories.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£20,000,000
Publication date:
17 December 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Engage the public with STFC’s science, technology and facilities

Apply for funding to engage the public with STFC-supported science, technology or facilities.

You must work for an organisation that:

  • is based in the UK
  • has audited accounts.

Proposals must include a researcher in an STFC-funded area.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£300,000
Award range:
£15,000 - £125,000
Publication date:
3 November 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Early ideas to improve the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics

Apply for funding to improve the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics.

We expect to fund one consortium. We will fund:

  • small or medium-sized enterprises
  • academic organisations
  • public sector organisations.

The principal investigator must be UK based.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£6,000,000
Maximum award:
£6,000,000
Publication date:
8 November 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

High-risk speculative engineering and ICT research: New Horizons – outline proposals

Apply for funding for new research ideas that are speculative, high risk, with potential for a high reward.

Your idea for a project must be within the remit of EPSRC’s:

  • engineering theme
  • information and communication technologies (ICT) theme.

You must be:

  • a UK resident
  • based at an eligible research organisation.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£10,000,000
Maximum award:
£250,000
Publication date:
9 November 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

Advise on the commissioning of NERC’s environmental data service

Apply for funding to provide independent expertise for the commissioning of the NERC Environmental Data Service (EDS).

You must be:

  • a UK resident
  • based at a UK institution eligible for UKRI funding.

You must not have a connection to:

  • the EDS
  • the associated environmental data centres
  • any NERC research centre.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type:
Fellowship
Total fund:
£75,000
Maximum award:
£75,000
Publication date:
8 November 2021
Opening date:
Closing date:

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