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
• Arts, Humanities and Social Science: Impact Starter Fund 2025-26: rolling deadline
• UZH Global Funding Scheme 2026: 31 July 2026
• Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund: 03 September 2026
• INT Emergency Bridge & Underwriting: 24 September 2026, MT deadline; 21 January 2027, LT deadline
• Keynes Fund Call for Projects: 25 September 2026
• Global Humanities Mobility Scheme: TBC September 2026
• CRASSH Connections Events: 18 October 2026
• CRASSH Events and Initiatives Funding Competition: 18 October 2026

Early Career Researchers: Grants

• Environmental Sciences: Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund 2026: 16 July 2026
• Wellcome Trust Early Career Award: 21 July 2026
• Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 28 July 2026
• Italy Made Me 2026 Call for Applications: 15 August 2026
• SHAPE Involve and Engage: 15 September 2026
• International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2027: 07 October 2026
• Core Research Grants, Russell Sage Foundation: 28 October 2026
• Wellcome Early-Career Awards: 10 November 2026
• Wellcome Career Development Awards: 17 November 2026

Established Researchers: Grants

• Environmental Sciences: Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund 2026: 16 July 2026
• Pre-announcement: Gambling harms research grants: 17 July 2026
• Video games and gambling-related harms: 23 July 2026
• Wellcome Trust Career Development: 28 July 2026
• British Council Connections Through Culture: 12 August 2026
• ERC Advanced Grant: 27 August 2026
• Leverhulme Visiting Professorship: 01 September 2026
• NIHR Research Professorships Cohort 17: 01 September 2026 (SHSS internal deadline)
• Commercialising Knowledge Assts Fund (CKAF) autumn: 01 September 2026
• ERC Plus Grant: 02 September 2026
• APEX Awards: 08 September 2026
• SHAPE Involve and Engage: 15 September 2026
• AHRC large grants: outline stage: 16 September 2026
• ERC Proof of Concept: 17 September 2026
• The Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science with Nature: 18 September 2026
• Wellcome Trust Discovery Award: 22 September 2026
• Nuffield Trust Main Grants (Research, Development and Analysis Fund): 05 October 2026
• Nuffield Trust Racial Diversity UK Fund: 05 October 2026
• International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2027: 07 October 2026
• ESRC React Awards (pilot): outline: 08 October 2026
• Core Research Grants, Russell Sage Foundation: 28 October 2026
• Wellcome Career Development Awards: 17 November 2026

Early Career Researchers: Fellowships

• The Lego Foundation Fellowship: 31 July 2026
• Innovation Fellowships 2026-27 – Route B: Policy-led: 05 August 2026
• Thematic Research Lead Fellowships, 2027-2029: 09 August 2026
• BA Mid-Career Fellowship: 26 August 2026
• MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship: 09 September 2026
• Sector transition: UKRI policy fellowships 2026: 10 September 2026

Established Researchers: Fellowships

• The Lego Foundation Fellowship: 31 July 2026
• Innovation Fellowships 2026-27 – Route B: Policy-led: 05 August 2026
• Thematic Research Lead Fellowships, 2027-2029: 09 August 2026
• BA Mid-Career Fellowship: 26 August 2026
• Sector transition: UKRI policy fellowships 2026: 10 September 2026
• Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study: 15 October 2026