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
- Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: 27 January 2025; 10 March 2025; 28 April 2025; 16 June 2025
- INT Academic Career Development Fellowships: 21 February 2025
Early Career Researchers: Grants
- New Generation Thinkers 2025: 28 January 2025
- BA International Writing Workshops: 29 January 2025
- British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers | The British Academy: 29 January 2025
- AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity Award: 30 January 2025
- AHRC responsive mode: Catalyst Award: 30 January 2025
- Evidence-informed policymaking grants | The British Academy: 19 February 2025
- Wellcome Trust Early-Career Awards: 25 February 2025
- Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners 2025 | The British Academy: 05 March 2025
- Proof of Concept | ERC: 13 March 2025 and 18 September 2025
Established Researchers: Grants
- BA International Writing Workshops: 29 January 2025
- British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers | The British Academy: 29 January 2025
- AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity Award: round six – UKRI: 30 January 2025
- AHRC responsive mode: Catalyst Award: round six – UKRI: 30 January 2025
- Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research: round seven – UKRI: 19 February 2025
- Evidence-informed policymaking grants | The British Academy: 19 February 2025
- Pre-announcement: Proof of Concept: 03 March, mandatory intention to submit deadline; 29 May 2025, full application
- Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners 2025 | The British Academy: 05 March 2025
- Proof of Concept | ERC: 13 March 2025 and 18 September 2025
- AHRC BRAID DOT: responsible AI collaborations with US researchers: 20 March 2025
- Nuffield Foundation Research, Development and Analysis Fund: 01 April 2025
- Welsh Election Study 2026: 01 April 2025
- Career Development Awards - Funding for Mid-Career Researchers | Wellcome: 03 April 2025
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Awards: 08 April 2025
- Pre-announcement: Locally Unlocking Culture through Inclusive Access (LUCIA): 25 April 2025
- Pre-announcement: UKRI Creating opportunities: rethinking economic (in)activity: 06 May 2025
- P2R: increasing UK policymaker engagement with research: 06 May 2025
- Advanced Grant | ERC: 28 August 2025
Early Career Researchers: Fellowships
- Leverhulme Trust Philip Leverhulme Prize: 12 February 2025, internal restricted deadline
- ISRF Early Career Fellowship: 14 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: International Crisis Group: 19 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: Conciliation Resources: 19 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: C40 2025: 19 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: The Igarape Group: 19 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships (Remote): 19 February 2025
- International Fellowships for PhD and Early Career Researchers 2025 – UKRI: 13 March 2025
- LUCIA-Local Government Association (LGA) ECR fellowship programme: 10 April 2025
- Pre-announcement: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowship: 10 April 2025
- Pre-announcement: Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10 – UKRI: 18 June 2025
Established Researchers: Fellowships
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: International Crisis Group: 19 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: Conciliation Resources: 19 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: C40 2025: 19 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: The Igarape Group: 19 February 2025
- British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships (Remote): 19 February 2025
- Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships: 01 May 2025