UKRI publishes information about the funding decisions made by research council boards and panels.
This lets you find out how a grant application did compared with others assessed at the same board or panel meeting. It can also inform an organisation’s grant application activity and help improve the quality of applications.
NERC usually aims to publish outcomes within eight weeks of a meeting.
Further details about awarded grants are published on Gateway to Research which is updated monthly with newly awarded grants.
Outcomes from 2017
Frequently applied for opportunities
- Exploring the frontiers, 2022
- Global Challenge Research Fund, 2020
- Globalink doctoral exchange scheme, 2019 to 2022
- Global partnership seedcorn fund, 2018 to 2023
- Highlight topics, 2018 to 2023
- Independent research fellows, 2017 to 2022
- Knowledge exchange fellows, 2017 to 2023
- Large grants, 2017 to 2024
- National capability services and facilities, 2018
- NERC doctoral training partnerships two, 2018
- Public engagement call, 2017
- Pushing the Frontiers, 2020 to 2025
- Standard (including New Investigator) research grants, 2017 to 2022
- Statement of community need: scientific support and facilities panel, July 2021
- Strategic capital investments, 2019 to 2022
Other opportunities
- Accelerating the green economy centres 2024
- AMR India awards 2019
- Atmospheric convection phase two, 2019
- Atmospheric pollution and human health in a Chinese megacity – adding value and increasing impact, 2018
- BBSRC-NERC: translation awards funding outcomes, 2019
- Belmont Forum funding decisions, 2019
- Bio carbon funding decisions 2022 to 2023
- Canada Inuit Nunangat UK Arctic research, 2022
- Centre for doctoral training (CDT), 2017 to 2022
- Changing Arctic oceans, 2017
- Changing North Atlantic Ocean, 2019
- Changing the environment funding decisions, 2021
- Clean air, 2019 to 2022
- Climate consequences of rapid ocean changes (CCROC), 2023
- Climate and Environmental Risk Analytics for Resilient Finance, 2020
- Constructing a digital environment, 2018 and 2020
- CZO (Newton China), 2018
- Derisking geological disposal of radioactive waste in the UK, 2023
- Digital solutions 2020
- Discipline hopping 2022
- Economics of biodiversity funding decisions, 2021 to 2022
- ECOWind funding decisions, 2022
- Emerging risks of chemicals in the environment, 2018
- Engaging environments, 2018
- Environmental evidence for the future, 2018
- Environmental risks to infrastructure innovation programme (ERIIP), 2017
- Evidence synthesis, 2017
- Freshwater (including champion) funding decisions, 2022
- Future climate for Africa gap filling, 2018
- Greenhouse gas emissions funding decisions, 2023
- Greenhouse gas removal demonstrators (directorate hub), 2020
- Hydrogen, 2022
- Hydrogen knowledge exchange fellowship, 2022
- Industrial CASE studentship competition, 2017
- Innovation disaster risk financing (DRF), 2017
- Innovation follow-on, 2017 to 2018
- Innovation placements and projects, 2017 to 2018
- Innovative monitoring approaches for infrastructure, oil and gas, and offshore renewable energy, 2017
- International Ocean Discovery Program, 2021
- International opportunities fund (IOF) pump priming, 2017
- Isotope and radiocarbon, 2018
- Jet zero: aviation’s non-CO2 impacts on the climate, 2024
- Landscape decisions, 2018 to 2020
- Latin American biodiversity programme, 2018
- Maximising UK adaptation to climate change research projects, July 2024
- Modelling environmental responses to solar radiation management, 2024
- Multidisciplinary drifting observatory for the study of Arctic climate, 2018
- National productivity investment fund (NPIF), 2017
- Nature positive funding decisions, 2022
- Net zero aerial capability: uncrewed aerial systems, 2024
- Net zero digital research infrastructure scoping funding decisions, 2021
- Newton Fund impact scheme, 2020
- Newton Wallacea Region – understanding biodiversity and evolutionary responses to environmental change, 2018
- Omics synthesis projects, 2018
- Peruvian glacial retreat, 2018
- Radioactivity and the environment (RATE) knowledge exchange (KE) fellowships, 2018
- Regional impact from science of the environment (RISE), 2018
- Run advanced training for early-career environmental scientists, 2022 to 2023
- Science for humanitarian emergencies and resilience (SHEAR), 2018
- Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging, 2020
- South East Asia hazards, 2018 to 2020
- Space weather instrumentation, measurement, modelling and risk (SWIMMR), 2020
- Study the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s response to a two degree increase (SWAIS), 2022
- Surface water and ocean topography (SWOT), 2020
- Sustainable management of UK marine resources, 2019 to 2020
- Sustainable mineral resources in the Philippines, 2021
- TEAMxUK: quantifying atmospheric processes in mountainous regions, 2024
- Tools for automating image analysis for biodiversity monitoring, 2023
- Towards a sustainable earth (TaSE), 2018
- Treescapes, 2020 to 2023
- Turbulent processes, 2022
- TWINE demonstrators: digital twins for environmental science, 2023
- UK-Canada sustainable critical minerals research partnerships, 2024
- UKRI circular fashion and textile programme, 2023
- UK climate resilience, 2018 to 2021
- Unconventional hydrocarbons in the UK energy system: environmental and socio-economic impacts and processes, 2017
- Understanding geohazard processes and their impacts across India, 2023
- Value of marine artificial structures, 2025
- Value of marine artificial structures outline, 2024
- Water Quality (Newton), 2017
Outcomes before 2017
Find NERC board and panel outcomes before 2017 in the UK Government Web Archive.
Comparing funding cut-off points
We make funding decisions in circumstances unique to each panel meeting. You should not compare the funding cut-off points made in different meetings.
We cannot consider challenges to, or enquiries about, decisions based on these comparisons.
You must wait for official confirmation before making any commitments against your award.
Last updated: 20 January 2026