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
- Public Engagement Starter Fund: 15 September 2024
- AHRC IAA Impact Fund Call 2024: 20 September 2024
- Social Science Impact Fund 2024: 20 September 2024
- Novel Applications of AI for Research and Innovation: 18 September 2024
Early Career Researchers: Grants
- Support knowledge exchange for European humanities research: 09 July 2024
- International Alliance of Research Universities Early-Career Collaboration Grants: 15 July 2024
- Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE) Catalyst, round two: 22 July 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: Catalyst Award: 30 July 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity award: 30 July 2024
- UK-Brazil global talent exchange scheme (pilot): 20 August 2024
- 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
- AHRC responsive mode: Catalyst Award: 28 October 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity award: 28 October 2024
- British Academy Small Research Grants: 06 November 2024
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Awards: 26 November 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: follow-on funding for impact and engagement: 09 December 2024
Established Researchers: Grants
- Support knowledge exchange for European humanities research: 09 July 2024
- Maximising UK adaptation to climate change research projects: 16 July 2024
- Pushing the Frontiers of Environmental Research: July 2024 (NERC): 17 July 2024
- Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE) Catalyst, round two: 22 July 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity award: 30 July 2024
- ERC Advanced Grant: 29 August 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 2025
- AHRC responsive mode: follow-on funding for impact and engagement: 23 September 2024
- AHRC responsive mode: standard research grant: 24 September 2024
- AHRC Design Accelerators: round three: 03 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: 28 October 2024
- ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening | The British Academy: 30 October 2024
- British Academy Small Research Grants: 06 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
- Synthesising research on envisioning governance systems that work: 12 December 2024
Early Career Researchers: Fellowships
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 25 July 2024
- 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
Established Researchers: Fellowships
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 25 July 2024
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Award: 30 July 2024
- British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship: 21 August 2024
- British Academy Global Professorships: 22 August 2024
- 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 Senior Research Fellowships: 15 November 2024
