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
- Isaac Newton Trust Emergency Bridge & Underwriting: 09 October 2025
- Isaac Newton Trust Project Start-up Grants: 09 October 2025
- Isaac Newton Trust Fellowship Support: 09 October 2025
- CRASSH Events & Initiatives Funding: 15 October 2025
- Researcher Development Enhanced Funding Scheme: 27 October 2025 and 13 April 2026
- Global Humanities Mobility Scheme: 10 November 2025
- Isaac Newton Trust Strategic Research Project: 05 February 2026
Early Career Researchers: Grants
- MSCA Staff Exchanges call: 08 October 2025
- British AcademyTalent Development Awards 2025-26: 08 October 2025
- Cultural heritage and climate change networks to drive policy change: 14 October 2025
- ERC Starting Grant: 14 October 2025
- COST Actions Open Call: 21 October 2025
- Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US: 31 October 2025
- Horizon Europe Pump Priming collaboration between UK and EU partners 2026: 05 November 2025
- British Academy Small Grants: 05 November 2025
- Restricted call: ESRC New Investigator Grants: 07 November 2025 (internal deadline)
- DisCouRSE Flexible Fund - Round 1: 14 November 2025
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 20 November 2025
- Wellcome Trust Early Career Award: 17 February 2026
Established Researchers: Grants
- Racial Diversity UK fund: 06 October 2025
- Nuffield Foundation Main Grants (Research, Development and Analysis Fund): 06 October 2025
- MSCA Staff Exchanges call: 08 October 2025
- Cultural heritage and climate change networks to drive policy change: 14 October 2025
- DisCouRSE Flexible Fund - Round 1: 14 November 2025
- COST Actions Open Call: 21 October 2025
- Restricted Call: Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships: 23 October 2025
- Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US: 31 October 2025
- Pre-announcement: DARE UK Real-world Research Exemplar Programme: 05 November 2025
- ERC Synergy Grant: 05 November 2025
- British Academy Small Grants: 05 November 2025
- Horizon Europe Pump Priming collaboration between UK and EU partners 2026: 05 November 2025
- UKRI Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC): 18 November 2025
- Gambling harms research and innovation partnerships: 18 November 2025
- Collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities: 20 November 2025
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 20 November 2025
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Award: 25 November 2025
- ERC Consolidator Grant: 13 January 2026
- Leverhulme Trust Research Project - Outline Application: 27 February 2025
- Nuffield Foundation Strategic Fund: 16 March 2026
- Leverhulme Visiting Professorship: 01 May 2026
Early Career Researchers: Fellowships
- British Academy-CIFAR Global Fellowship: 05 November 2025
- Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025 (AHRC): 10 December 2025
Established Researchers: Fellowships
- Turing AI Pioneer Interdisciplinary Fellowships: outline applications: 14 October 2025
- British Academy-CIFAR Global Fellowship: 05 November 2025
- Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship: 06 November 2025
