The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries.
The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKMRCNERCSTFC
We aim to support UK and low and middle-income country scientists to establish partnerships, participate in global health research opportunities and respond to global challenges in biomedical and health research.
Funding councils:
MRC
The aim of the Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund is to support UK environmental science researchers to forge new partnerships and networks with the best international researchers, wherever they are located, and seed collaborations that will be sustained beyond the lifetime of the grant.
Funding councils:
NERC
This research area focuses on the synthesis, characterisation and theoretical understanding of graphene, carbon nanotubes and other carbon-based nanomaterials.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
This research area focuses on the synthesis and manipulation of visual content, including augmented and virtual reality, animation, immersive technologies and novel ways of visualising data.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
The aim of this programme is to assess sustainable routes for large-scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, allowing the UK to take a major step towards achieving net zero emissions, and to benefit from the £400 billion future global market in greenhouse gas removal.
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKNERC
The aim of this programme is to carry out research to better understand the options for removing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, with a focus on the environmental, technical, economic, governance and wider societal aspects in a national and international context.
Funding councils:
EPSRCESRCNERCSTFC
Understanding and tackling challenges relating to ground and underground structures, geotechnics and environmental and hazardous aspects of structures.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
With support from the UK government Global Challenges Research Fund, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has worked on 17 projects to help address complex global development challenges and improve quality of life in low and middle income countries.
Funding councils:
AHRC
Medical humanities covers a range of approaches that apply the arts and humanities to health and social care, and health and wellbeing practices. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) research helps us to learn from the past about how to improve current and future practices.
Funding councils:
AHRC
