Calendar of External & Internal Funding Opportunities
*Please note that funder deadlines are listed on this calendar. Please be in touch with your department's Research Grants Administrator (RGA) to confirm what internal deadlines might apply.
The listing below divides funding opportunities into five categories: 1) Internal Opportunities, 2) Grants for Early Career Researchers, 3) Grants for Established Researchers, 4) Fellowships for Early Career Researchers and 5) Fellowships for Established Researchers.
Internal Funding
- Large Grant Contribution Fund: rolling deadline; minimum 4 weeks before funder deadline
- Bid Preparation Fund: rolling deadline
- All Council Harmonised IAA Impact Starter Fund Call 2022-2026: rolling deadline
- Impact Funding Call Out: rolling deadline
- Arts, Humanities and Social Science: Impact Starter Fund 2025-26: rolling deadline
- Isaac Newton Trust Collection-based Research in the Humanities: 30 January 2026
- Isaac Newton Trust Strategic Research Project: 05 February 2026
- Isaac Newton Trust Project Start-up Grants: 05 February 2026
- Isaac Newton Trust Fellowship Support: 05 February 2026
- Isaac Newton Trust Emergency Bridge & Underwriting: 05 February 2026
- Local Government AI Accelerator: 13 February 2026
- Researcher Development Enhanced Funding Scheme: 13 April 2026
Early Career Researchers: Grants
- British Academy / Cara / Leverhulme Researchers at Risk Research Support Grants: 14 January 2026
- Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Innovator route: 16 January 2026
- Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) Documentation Grants: 19 January 2026
- Pre-announcement: Design Generators: 29 January 2026
- British Academy Conferences: 29 January 2026
- British Academy Measurement of social and cultural infrastructure in the higher education sector: 04 February 2026
- Wellcome Trust Early Career Award: 17 February 2026
- ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups: 13 March 2026
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 26 March 2026
Established Researchers: Grants
- ERC Consolidator Grant: 13 January 2026
- Creative Industries Clusters: round two, outline stage and workshop: 14 January 2026 (internal deadline)
- British Academy / Cara / Leverhulme Researchers at Risk Research Support Grants: 14 January 2026
- Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Innovator route: 16 January 2026
- Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) Documentation Grants: 19 January 2026
- Focal awards: art history, visual arts and creative practice: 26 January 2026 (internal deadline)
- Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity: 26 January 2026 (internal deadline)
- Pre-announcement: Design Generators: 29 January 2026
- British Academy Conferences: 29 January 2026
- British Academy Measurement of social and cultural infrastructure in the higher education sector: 04 February 2026
- Design Generators: 05 February 2026 (restricted deadline)
- AHRC-DFG Research Grants: Round Eight (2025 to 2026): 11 February 2026
- Leverhulme Trust Research Project - Outline Application: 27 February 2026
- ERC Proof of Concept: 13 March 2026
- ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups: 13 March 2026
- Wellcome Trust Genomics in Context Awards: 16 March 2026
- Nuffield Foundation Strategic Fund: 16 March 2026
- Wellcome Trust Career Development: 26 March 2026
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Award: 31 March 2026
- Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity: 21 April 2026
- Metascience research grants round 2: 23 April 2026
- Leverhulme Visiting Professorship: 01 May 2026
- ERC Proof of Concept: 17 September 2026
Early Career Researchers: Fellowships
- AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026: 28 January 2026
- Pre-announcement: ADR UK Research Fellowships 2025: 26 February 2026
- Pre-announcement: International Placement Scheme 2026: 05 March 2026 (internal deadline)
Established Researchers: Fellowships
- Pre-announcement: ADR UK Research Fellowships 2025: 26 February 2026
- Pre-announcement: UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships, Round 11: 24 March 2026 (internal deadline)
