Funding Opportunities
Most of the opportunities on these pages have been sourced from Research Professional. If you want to do more specific searches, you can find it here.
On these pages, there are usually over 400 opportunities with the latest ones added at the top. Each week about 10% of items are replaced with newly added ones.
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All current news
Understanding, mitigating and countering security threats.
This story published on Tuesday 23 October 2018
CREST is seeking to identify and fund innovative and forward-looking economic, behavioural and social science research that will contribute to our understanding of contemporary security threats, or enhance the UK’s capacity to detect and mitigate such threats.
Telling tales of engagement competition
This story published on Monday 19 November 2018
EPSRC invites submissions for its telling tales of engagement competition. This aims to capture and promote the impact of research council funded digital economy research is having, and enables researchers to further tell the story of research impact in an interesting and engaging way to a wider audience.
Tackling knife crime in the UK – detecting steel-bladed knives
This story published on Wednesday 7 November 2018
The Ministry of Defence, through the Defence and Security Accelerator, invites applications for its tackling knife crime in the UK – detecting steel-bladed knives challenge. This seeks proposals for innovative technologies and approaches that help reduce knife crime in the UK through the identification of people carrying steel-bladed knives.
Planning rail capacity through automated infrastructure design
This story published on Wednesday 17 October 2018
Innovate UK and Network Rail invite proposals for their planning rail capacity through automated infrastructure design call. This supports projects that develop and demonstrate tools that automatically plan rail infrastructure, in order to model the railway’s capacity for the future and stimulate further development of automated design tools.
Many drones make light work competition – phase 3
This story published on Monday 22 October 2018
The Ministry of Defence, under the Defence and Security Accelerator, invites applications for its many drones make light work phase 3 competition. This seeks proposals for novel and innovative approaches to developing and evaluating the military utility of a swarm of low-cost, small unmanned air systems operating as a collaborative mission capability.
Leadership fellows scheme – early-career researchers
This story published on Tuesday 27 March 2018
The Arts and Humanities Research Council invites applications for its leadership fellows scheme. This enables early-career researchers to undertake focused individual research alongside collaborative activities which have the potential to generate a transformative impact on their subject area and beyond.
Immunology innovation award
This story published on Monday 10 December 2018
Versus Arthritis, with Cancer Research UK, invites applications for its immunology innovation award. Applicants must attend a workshop, taking place from 2 to 5 April 2019, to network and form new collaborations spanning research areas / organisations, work in multidisciplinary teams to generate innovative ideas, and pitch projects for seed funding.
Elie Kedourie memorial fund
This story published on Tuesday 11 September 2018
The British Academy invites applications for the Elie Kedourie memorial fund. This supports the study of Middle Eastern and modern European history and the history of political thought.
Early Career Development Fellowships
This story published on Wednesday 17 October 2018
Breast Cancer Now invites applications for its Early Career Development Fellowship. This enables researchers to establish themselves as independent researchers leading a unique and innovative programme of research.
Commissioned call for proposals: 18/81, 18/80
This story published on Wednesday 27 June 2018
The National Institute for Health Research, under its health technology assessment programme invites stage 1 applications for its commissioned call for proposals. This supports research on the clinical and cost effectiveness and broader impact of healthcare treatments, tests and services in the fields of precision medicine and end of life care.
Beyond the Academic
This story published on Monday 29 October 2018
The Social Mobility Commission is inviting proposals for research to understand how inequalities in extracurricular participation, networks, and support for building soft skills impact on social mobility.
ANTENNA USER TERMINAL WITH WAIM METAMATERIAL RADOME
This story published on Wednesday 21 November 2018
The European Space Agency (ESA) hereby invites tenders for Antenna user terminal with Wide Angle Impedance Matching (WAIM) metamaterial radome.
Airguide photonics collaboration fund call for research proposals
This story published on Monday 10 December 2018
EPSRC and the University of Southampton, under the Optoelectronics Research Centre, invites proposals for their airguide photonics collaboration fund call for research proposals. This supports short research projects that directly or indirectly contribute to the key areas of the airguide programme and that add to the overall aims of the project.
18/161 HTA Themed Call: Cannabis-based products for medicinal use
This story published on Monday 15 October 2018
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) welcomes proposals for primary clinical research to evaluate the safety and clinical efficacy or clinical effectiveness of cannabis-based products for medicinal use in humans.
