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
- REF Impact Fund: rolling deadline
- All Council Harmonised IAA Impact Starter Fund Call 2022-2026: rolling deadline
- Improving Research Community Builder Award: 10 September 2024
- Cambridge Africa ALBORADA Fund: 12 September 2024
- Public Engagement Starter Fund: 15 September 2024
- Novel Applications of AI for Research and Innovation: 18 September 2024
- AHRC IAA Impact Fund Call 2024: 20 September 2024
- Social Science Impact Fund 2024: 20 September 2024
- DAAD Hub Call 2024: 22 September 2024
- Keynes Fund: 27 September 2024
- Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: 30 September 2024
- Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership: Call for Proposals in Teaching and Research: 20 October 2024
- CRASSH Events & Initiatives Funding: 21 October 2024
- Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: 11 November 2024
Early Career Researchers: Grants
- Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2025: 18 September 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: follow-on funding for impact and engagement: 23 September 2024
- Wellcome Trust Early-Career Awards: 01 October 2024
- ERC Starting Grant: 15 October 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: Catalyst Award: 30 October 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity award: 30 October 2024
- British Academy Small Research Grants: 06 November 2024
- Pre-announcement: Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership 2024: 14 November 2024
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Awards: 26 November 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: follow-on funding for impact and engagement: 09 December 2024
- AHRC Collaborate with Researchers in Luxembourg: round three: 10 December 2024
- UKRI-NSF-SBE Agency Lead: round three: 10 December 2024
- AHRC Working with Brazilian Researchers: 10 December 2024
Established Researchers: Grants
- Core Research Challenges in Digital Twinning for Crisis Resilience: 05 September 2024
- UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme: round 2: 09 September 2024, RSO restricted deadline
- UK future internet NetworkPlus: Outline: 10 September 2024
- British Academy Talent Development Awards: 11 September 2024
- Pre-announcement: Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition – round 3: 12 September 2024
- ERC Proof of Concept: 17 September 2024
- Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2025: 18 September 2024
- Health Inequalities in the Food System: 19 September 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: follow-on funding for impact and engagement: 23 September 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: standard research grant: 24 September 2024
- UKRI Digital Research Technical Professional Skills NetworkPlus: 02 October 2024
- AHRC Design Accelerators: round three: 03 October 2024
- Expression of Interest: Research Skills Strategy Leadership Hub: 09 October 2024
- Nuffield Foundation - Research, Development and Analysis Fund: 14 October 2024
- Nuffield Foundation Racial Diversity UK Fund: 14 October 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity Award: 30 October 2024
- ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening | The British Academy: 30 October 2024
- British Academy Small Research Grants: 06 November 2024
- ERC Synergy Grant: 06 November 2024
- Pre-announcement: Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership 2024: 14 November 2024
- BA Academic Research Project: 22 November 2024
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Awards: 26 November 2024
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Awards: 03 December 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: follow-on funding for impact and engagement: 09 December 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: standard research grant: 09 December 2024
- AHRC Collaborate with Researchers in Luxembourg: round three: 10 December 2024
- UKRI-NSF-SBE Agency Lead: round three: 10 December 2024
- AHRC Working with Brazilian Researchers: 10 December 2024
- Synthesising research on envisioning governance systems that work: 12 December 2024
- Pre-announcement: Locally Unlocking Culture through Inclusive Access (LUCIA): 25 April 2025
Early Career Researchers: Fellowships
- MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships: 11 September 2024
- Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 2024: 25 September 2024
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: 02 October 2024
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowship: 06 November 2024
- British Academy Innovation Fellowship Scheme 2024-2025 -- Route B: Policy led: 27 November 2024
- Global Innovation Fellowships: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: 27 November 2024
- ODA Global Fellowship: South African Institute of Internal Affairs (SAIIS): 27 November 2024
Established Researchers: Fellowships
- Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 2024: 25 September 2024
- Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships: 03 October 2024
- British Academy Visiting Fellowships: 23 October 2024
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowship: 06 November 2024
- British Academy Senior Research Fellowships: 15 November 2024
- British Academy Innovation Fellowship Scheme 2024-2025 -- Route B: Policy led: 27 November 2024
- Global Innovation Fellowships: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: 27 November 2024
- ODA Global Fellowship: South African Institute of Internal Affairs (SAIIS): 27 November 2024
